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Ezra Klein is an opinion columnist and host of the award-winning Ezra Klein Show podcast at the New York Times.

Known for: Abundance

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Abundance

Abundance

politics·10 min read

This book argues that many of America's most pressing crises—from housing shortages and high costs of living to climate change and slow scientific progress—are the result of "chosen scarcities." The authors contend that a shift in political philosophy is needed, moving away from a liberalism focused on procedure and demand-side subsidies toward a "politics of abundance" or "supply-side progressivism." Through an analysis of housing policy, energy infrastructure, government capacity, and scientific funding, the book outlines a vision for a government that prioritizes building, inventing, and deploying the resources necessary for a flourishing future.

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Beyond Scarcity: The Supply-Side Mistake and the Choice to Build

The central economic error of modern American politics has been the decoupling of supply and demand. In the real world, these forces are inextricably linked; in our politics, they have been divvied up between the parties. The Republican Party claimed the mantle of the "supply side," but their versio...

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The Urban Engine: Agglomeration, Mobility, and the Housing Crisis

There is a profound irony in the American mythos: we lionize the frontier, yet our prosperity has always been forged in our cities. Horace Greeley famously advised, "Go West, young man," but he himself went to New York City to make his fortune. Cities are the engines of our economy, the places where...

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Ezra Klein is an opinion columnist and host of the award-winning Ezra Klein Show podcast at the New York Times.

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