
生年: April 26, 1988 – Renesse, Zeeland, Netherlands
Rutger Bregman is a Dutch historian and writer focused on history, economics, politics, and human nature. He is best known for Utopia for Realists and Humankind, books that helped popularize debates on universal basic income, open borders, and cooperation, and became international bestsellers translated into dozens of languages.
Rutger Bregman is a Dutch historian and writer whose career has been shaped by a mix of moral seriousness and public argument. Born in 1988 in Renesse, in the Netherlands, he grew up as the son of a pastor and a special-needs teacher, an upbringing that helps explain the ethical register of much of his work. He studied history at Utrecht University and at UCLA, and for a time expected to become an academic historian. Instead, he moved into journalism, first at De Volkskrant and then for a decade at the independent digital platform De Correspondent, where he developed the essayistic style that would make him widely known: historically grounded, policy-minded, and written for a broad online readership. ((https://rutgerbregman.com/bio?utm_source=openai))
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— TED
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— TIME
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— The Guardian
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— Andrew Yang
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— Brian Eno
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