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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

A raging political fad has taken over the Democratic Party.The Abundance movement cuts across the partys ideological fissures.Democratic politicians are rushing to embrace the new mantra. The Wall Street Journal

From bestselling authors and journalistic titans Ezra Klein and Derek Thompson,Abundanceis 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 dont have enough workers. Despite decades of being warned about the consequences of climate change, we havent 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 thats clicking into focus now has been building for decadesbecause we havent been building enough.

Abundanceexplains that our problems today are not the results of yesteryears villains. Rather, one generations solutions have become the next generations 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 considers the consequences of its actions have made it too difficult for government to act consequentially. In the last few decades, our capacity to see problems has sharpened while our ability to solve them has diminished.

Progress requires facing up to the institutions in life that are not working as they need to. It means, for liberals, recognizing when the government is failing. It means, for conservatives, recognizing when the government is needed. In a book exploring how we can move from a liberalism that not only protects and preserves but alsobuilds, Klein and Thompson trace the political, economic, and cultural barriers to progress and propose a path toward a politics of abundance. At a time when movements of scarcity are gaining power in country after country, this is an answer that meets the challenges of the moment while grappling honestly with the fury so many rightfully feel.