Abundance
Ezra Klein and Derek Thompson make the case that America's biggest problems, from sky-high rents to slow clean-energy rollouts, come down to a failure to build. They argue that decades of well-meaning rules, reviews, and lawsuits have made it too hard to add housing, lay transmission lines, or stand up new factories, and that progressives in particular need an agenda focused on supply rather than blocking. Part diagnosis and part manifesto, the book lays out how government could once again deliver enough of what people need.
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Ezra Klein and Derek Thompson argue that to fix housing, energy, and infrastructure, liberals must stop blocking and start building, an agenda they call abundance.
Abundance was written by Ezra Klein and Derek Thompson, two journalists known for their work at The New York Times and The Atlantic. It was published in 2025.
Abundance is 304 pages in standard print editions, though page counts vary slightly between hardcover, paperback, and large-print formats.
At an average reading pace of about 250 words per minute, Abundance takes most readers 5 to 7 hours to finish.
Abundance is available in hardcover, paperback, ebook, and audiobook formats from Amazon, Bookshop.org, ThriftBooks, and most major bookstores.