Abundance

“Ezra Klein has been making the media rounds for his new book on abundance and is getting very little push back.”

“and she writes, "I still can't tell after reading Abundance whether Klein and Thompson are seeking something fairly smallbore incorrect."”

“A lot of what we're pointing out in the book is that the player that is often most regulated is not the market. It's the government itself.”

“And so Ezra goes on now at length in that uh in that interview and in his book um laying out really what is an outrageous and absurd process.”

“The book focuses on you what's the difference between California and Texas. And my question based on that would just be to what extent did Democrats or did the I guess lefts uh push for more regulation...”

“So, so the the abundance argument uh from Ezra and Derek Thompson is zeros in a lot on housing because like I think that's the that's the place where you can really kind of nail some of these nimbies...”

“and then you have a sort of new entrant which is the abundance concept which is um you know co-authored the book co-authored by Ezra Klein and Derek Thompson and Ezra has been both of them have been doing media tour we had um dererk here to talk about the books and his ideas as well”

“Derek Thompson is going to join us for an interview about his new book and the political theory that he is sharing here with Ezra Klein yeah I'm excited to talk to him this uh book taking there's a lot of discourse around it”

“And I think that the book that Derek Thompson I wrote released us here abundance which it was one of these things.”

“So, I probably agree with a lot of what you said, Derek, but at the level of vibes, abundance has been more factionally controversial in the Democratic party than I would have expected”

“And I think something that neither of our books ended up doing all that well was really describing what that vision of the future would look like.”

“and the other which is like the big critique that gets made of certainly our book, I don't know if it is as true in the critique that gets made of yours is that abundance just isn't focused on the right enemies.”

“I just wrote an entire book about the failures of Democratic policymaking in this specific era. What I am saying is the bid administration's view of trade was that there are targeted industries we should be putting a lot of both domestic policy and international policy into play in order to protect and reshore or French shore...”

“So my book, Abundance, is more about how Democrats govern at both the state and and local and federal level and some of the pathologies of governance there. They make it hard for for liberals to achieve their goals. There are versions of this on the right, but I'm not really writing about that in in this. So my book”

“He's got a new book with Derek Thompson, Abundance, and he co-founded Vox in 2014, and he's our guest here today before Trump ships him to El Salvador.”

“All right, Ezra Klein's new book, Abundance, is out in fine bookstores and Amazon and all kinds of other places you can get it.”

“Together they've written a new book, simply titled Abundance, that lays out a kind of manifesto for the left. It is already a controversial, widely debated book, but I think it puts forward a powerful vision”

“And we should say that the book you've mentioned, which I've gotten a chance to read, and I think it's incredible, highly recommend, it's called Abundance, I think of it as a kind of manifesto for what the left would represent in the coming years”

“Ezra has a new book out with Derek Thompson called Abundance.”

“A plug again for the book Abundance by Ezra Klein and Derek Thompson. Wonderful book. I recommend it to everyone.”

“in government they just wrote a new book all about this it's called abundance”

“you begin this new book of yours abundance with kind of a vision a utopian Vision”

“I think what abundance has done for the first time really since then is to open up a conversation about whether we need to rethink that core notion of what progressivism is about.”

“there's this new book out called abundance from Ezra Klene who I would say I disagree with on approximately zero of everything”

“I think the diagnosis of what is stopping us from doing that is lacking a little bit in the abundance books because they're putting it all on sort of liberal interest groups.”

“It has been a little over a year since Derek Thompson and I published Abundance.”

“So, our books came out a little more than a year ago.”

“if you have the misfortune of going to say Fred the St. Louis data website and looking up housing starts in California between say 2021 and 2026, you do not see the publication of the book Abundance by Ezra Klein and Derek Thompson in those statistics.”

“A lot of the examples in the book are from California, where I'm from, where I was when we wrote much of the book.”

“I definitely don't want to give the same answer to every question, but I hear the governor of California describing a legislative victory in terms that literally quote our book, a liberalism that builds abundance.”

“Chapter one of our book, The Housing Chapter, does, I think, a very good job explaining the 50-year story of how a set of zoning and permitting and environmental legislation and rules that accumulated around the 1960s and 1970s has slowed housing construction”

“So so something that I wrote about in our housing chapter was the anger in the 60s and the 70s that America was just getting uglier.”

“a time machine materializes right next to us over here takes us back to December 2023 allowing us just enough time to add a chapter 7 to the book called abundance and corporate power.”

“Yeah, Mark, I take your point that a lot of the things we focus on in the book or frankly that you focus on in your book corporate concentration isn't the reason the transmission lines aren't getting built...”

“I think one of the vibes projects in abundance is to try to create a political vibe that is simultaneously progressive in the sense that it cares about social goals and equality and distribution and a bunch of things that you know progressives typically care about and prochemnology.”

“So, I really like the two, three sentences that we had about artificial intelligence in the sci-fi vignette that kicked off our book because while we don't have a fully fleshed out AI policy in that book...”

“I'm glad you made the distinction because I if someone said your book has no vision, I would say, well, it does begin with a, you know, four-page vignette of what the future in 2050 would look like if we got abundance right.”

“Abundance, the book I co-wrote with Derek Thompson, has been out for a month and a half.”

“Uh abundance is a new book by Ezra Klein and Derek Thompson. Um and it is a book about governance and in large part how blue states and cities um need to govern better and deliver more.”

“Uh abundance is a new book by Ezra Klein and Derek Thompson.”

“I interviewed Ezra Klein and Derek Thompson about their new book, Abundance.”

“...on identity Politics on to Ezra Klein's point in his new book getting things done where we govern”

“I've been working on a book called abundance with Derek Thompson sort of all about why it's become so hard to build why it has become hard to to fund the kind of science that that leads to new inventions”

“In terms of what I would like to see Democratic politicians repudiate, I’m literally talking my book. I have a book coming out in March called 'Abundance.'”