03722cam a22004215i 4500 23943882 BJBSDDR 20250820122549.0 ta 241206s2025 nyu b 001 0 eng 2024951721 9781668023488 (hardcover) 1668023482 (hardcover) 9781668023501 (ebook) DLC eng rda DLC eng pcc HC 106.84 K64a 2025 Klein, Ezra, 1984- 33235 Abundance / Ezra Klein and Derek Thompson. First Avid Reader Press hardcover edition New York : Avid Reader Press, 2025. ix, 288 pages ; 24 cm text txt rdacontent unmediated n rdamedia volume nc rdacarrier Includes bibliographical references (pages 227-272) and index. 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. 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 -- Provided by publisher. Escasez Aspectos políticos 44442 Estados Unidos Escasez Política gubernamental 44443 Estados Unidos Desarrollo económico Historia 2106 Estados Unidos Infraestructura (Economía) 1012 Estados Unidos Estados Unidos Condiciones económicas 1543 Siglo XXI Thompson, Derek Kahn, 1986- 44303 0 ibc orignew 2 epcn 20 y-gencatlg lcc BK 124781 124781 0 0 lcc 0 0 CS BJB BJB CS 2025-08-15 0 HC 106.84 K64a 2025 00000194990 2025-08-15 17:48:00 1 2025-08-15 BK