Utopia For Realists
And How We Can Get There
Rutger Bregman
Bloomsbury
316 pages; Rs 499
In recent times, the Universal Basic Income (UBI) has acquired increasing acceptance in policy circles as a tool to curb poverty. With successful pilot projects in Canada and some European countries, UBI is being looked upon as a more efficient measure than the subsidies that have long underpinned the welfare state.
In the book under review, Rutger Bregman, a Dutch journalist, makes the case for UBI by collating evidence from history, philosophy, and, of course, economics. Mr Bregman clinically destroys the myth that the UBI would unleash a generation
