03160cam a2200349 i 4500 2174232721 TxAuBib 20250502120000.0 250305s2025||||||||||||||||||||||||eng|u 2024951721 9781668023488 HRD 30.00 1668023482 HRD 30.00 TxAuBib rda Klein, Ezra, (journalist), 1984-, author. Abundance [BOOK] / Ezra Klein and Derek Thompson. First Avid Reader Press hardcover edition. New York, NY : Avid Reader Press, an imprint of Simon & Schuster, 2025. ix, 288 pages ; 24 cm. txt rdacontent n rdamedia nc rdacarrier Includes bibliographical references (pages 227-272) and index. Introduction: Beyond scarcity -- Grow -- Build -- Govern -- Invent -- Deploy -- Conclusion: Toward abundance. "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. Ambitious public projects are finished late and over budget—if they are ever finished at all. The crisis that’s clicking into focus now has been building for decades—because we haven’t been building enough. Abundance explains that our problems today are not the results of yesteryear’s villains. Rather, one generation’s solutions have become the next gener­ation’s 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 also builds, Klein and Thompson trace the political, economic, and cultural barriers to progress and propose a path toward a politics of abundance.". 20250502. Economic development United States History. Scarcity Political aspects United States. Scarcity Government policy United States. Infrastructure (Economics) United States. United States Economic conditions 21st century. Thompson, Derek, 1986-, author.