Abundance

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';A must-read for progressives who want a blueprint for reforming government so it can deliver for working people.' Barack Obama *; ';A terrific book...Powerful and persuasive.' Fareed Zakaria *; ';SpectacularOffers a comprehensive indictment of the current problems and a clear path forwardKlein and Thompson usher in a mood shift. They inspire hope and enlarge the imagination.' David Brooks, The New York Times

From bestselling authors and journalistic titans Ezra Klein and Derek Thompson, Abundance is a once-in-a-generation, paradigm-shifting call to renew a politics of plenty, face up to the failures of liberal governance, and abandon the chosen scarcities that have deformed American life.

To trace the history of the twenty-first century so far is to trace a history of unaffordability and shortage. After years of refusing to build sufficient housing, America has a national housing crisis. After years of limiting immigration, we don't have enough workers. Despite decades of being warned about the consequences of climate change, we haven't built anything close to the clean-energy infrastructure we need. Ambitious public projects are finished late and over budgetif they are ever finished at all. The crisis that's clicking into focus now has been building for decadesbecause we haven't been building enough.

Abundance explains that our problems today are not the results of yesteryear's villains. Rather, one generation's solutions have become the next generation's problems. Rules and regulations designed to solve the problems of the 1970s often prevent urban-density and green-energy projects that would help solve the problems of the 2020s. Laws meant to ensure that government