Description
Rutger Bregman's rigorously researched, brilliantly argued counter-history of human nature—making the case with extensive evidence from psychology, evolutionary biology, and historical research that human beings are fundamentally cooperative and decent, and that the opposite belief has been used to justify systems that make us worse than we actually are—is one of the most important and most genuinely hopeful works of popular social science produced in recent years. Written with the intellectual courage to challenge the most entrenched assumptions about what people are and what they are capable of, this is essential reading for every person who has ever suspected that the cynical view of human nature might be wrong. A genuinely transformative work.
