Abundance by Ezra Klein & Derek Thompson

I put this on my library hold list (which is essentially my reading list) when it showed up on Obama's 2025 Summer Reading List--I had read 3 of the 10, had 2 more on my shelf to read, so decided to try all 10. I am glad I got this one--added bonus is that it is a largish font, so I took it to an eye appointment and was able to read it while I waited. I didn't know this but read it in a review. Late in 2021, Ezra Klein wrote a New York Times op-ed titled “The Economic Mistake the Left Is Finally Confronting”, in which he called for a new “supply-side progressivism”. Four months later, Derek Thompson wrote an article in The Atlantic titled “A Simple Plan to Solve All of America’s Problems”, in which he called for an “abundance agenda”. Many people quickly recognized that these were essentially the same idea. Klein and Thompson recognized it too, and teamed up to co-author a book that would serve as a manifesto for this new big idea. It is about combating the GOP policy of scarcity, which underneath all the prevarication is that we are running out of things and need to secure what we have, guard it, kick out anyone that doesn't look like you with a policy of abundance, that we have more than enough and we need to stop letting billionaires run the show and start leaning in to our strengths.