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Abundance

Abundance

By Ezra Klein, Derek Thompson

Audio available 9 minute read Published Mar 18, 2025

What you'll learn

Ezra Klein is a columnist for The New York Times, host of The Ezra Klein Show and a cofounder of Vox. Derek Thompson is a journalist who has written about economics and technology for The Atlantic, hosts the podcast Plain English and wrote Hit Makers.

In Abundance, Ezra Klein and Derek Thompson argue that many of America’s biggest problems, from unaffordable housing to slow clean-energy progress, come from a failure to build. They make the case that these shortages are largely the result of policy choices, and that choices can be changed. You’ll learn why the authors think scarcity is often self-inflicted, how rules meant to protect us now block what we need, why government struggles to deliver even when it spends heavily, how science and invention lost their nerve, and what a politics of plenty might look like.

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Key insights

  1. • What you'll learn
  2. 1 Scarcity by Choice
  3. 2 Homes Where the Jobs Are
  4. 3 Why Clean Energy Stalls
  5. 4 The Everything-Bagel Problem
  6. 5 When Process Becomes the Goal
  7. 6 A Government That Can Build
  8. 7 Betting on Bold Science
  9. 8 From Discovery to Delivery
  10. 9 A Politics of Plenty

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