Abundance: How We Build a Better Future

Housing that never gets built, clean energy stalled in permitting queues, research funding that rewards caution: Abundance argues these shortages are largely self-imposed. Ezra Klein and Derek Thompson make the case that policy across the wealthy democracies has grown better at blocking things than at building them, and that the remedy is a politics organised around supply rather than restriction. The argument moves through housing, energy, transport infrastructure, healthcare and scientific research, using each to show how procedure accumulated for sound reasons ends up manufacturing scarcity. Profile Books publishes this edition of a title that has driven sustained argument among policy readers. Quick facts for buyers: • An argument that scarcity is produced by policy, not nature • Case material drawn from housing, energy, transport and research • A focus on why building has become slow in wealthy democracies • The Profile Books edition of a widely debated policy title Suited to readers of politics and economics, policy professionals and anyone following debates about growth and infrastructure, this Profile Books edition is available at Boipoka.