Abundance

BOOK SUMMARY

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.

ABOUT THE AUTHOR

Ezra Klein is an opinion columnist and host of the award-winning The Ezra Klein Show podcast at The New York Times. He is the author of Why We’re Polarized, an instant New York Times bestseller, named one of Barack Obama’s top books of 2022. He lives in Brooklyn, New York.

Derek Thompson is a staff writer at The Atlantic and the host of the podcast Plain English. He is the author of the national bestseller Hit Makers and On Work, an anthology of his writing on labor and technology. He lives in Chapel Hill, North Carolina.

PRAISE

“A must-read for progressives who want a blueprint for reforming government so it can deliver for working people.”
—Barack Obama

“Spectacular…Offers a comprehensive indictment of the current problems and a clear path forward.”
—David Brooks, The New York Times

“A terrific book…powerful and persuasive.”
—Fareed Zakaria, CNN

PRODUCT INFORMATION

Hardcover
304 pages
Non-fiction
9 in H | 6 in W | 1.1 in T | 1.1 lb