Nonfiction spotlight
Abundance
by Ezra Klein and Derek Thompson
Why rich countries stopped building things, and what it would take to start again.
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Housing, clean energy, transit, medicine: a diagnosis of the rules and habits that make scarcity a policy choice rather than a fact.
Publisher's blurb
Synopsis
Klein and Thompson argue that the bottleneck on prosperity is no longer money or invention but permission - layered process, veto points and procedural caution that make building slow and expensive. The book moves from Californian rail to vaccine timelines to zoning boards, ending with a politics organised around supply.
The editorial feature
The most argued-about policy book of the year, and readable even when you disagree. The case studies do most of the persuading; the closing chapters are lighter on mechanism than the diagnosis deserves.
Book details
- Genre
- Nonfiction
- Released
- 18 March 2025
- Publisher
- Avid Reader Press
- Extent
- 304 pages
- Featured on
- 18 March 2025
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