History Lesson: The Last Abundance Agenda

Source: The American Prospect
by David Dayen

“I was content to sit out the Abundance[TM] deliberations. Two years ago, I wrote a long piece about the ways in which adherents to the new paradigm of ‘a liberalism that builds’ neglected any analysis of power, or the need to build coalitions to counteract that power. Ezra Klein engaged with my argument in his New York Times column and I responded. As a journal on the left, we were, I believe, contractually obligated to review Klein and Derek Thompson’s Abundance book, and we did so. But I personally felt like I said what I wanted to say. … However, I got a call last week from an NPR program called Open to Debate. They were having Derek Thompson on to talk about his book and wanted me to join.” (04/01/25)

https://prospect.org/infrastructure/housing/2025-04-01-last-abundance-agenda/