Abundance
Why a rich country cannot build housing, transit or clean energy, and the case that the scarcity is self-inflicted.
Ezra Klein and Derek Thompson ask why the United States has become so bad at building the things it says it wants: housing, infrastructure, clean energy. Their argument is that scarcity is largely self-inflicted, produced by rules and habits that block supply, and that a politics of abundance would mean removing those obstacles rather than redistributing what little gets built.
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Noah Smith
Three years later, Abundance has hit the stores. It’s a good book, and you should read it.
Book Review · March 2025
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