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5. Abundance (Klein and Thompson book)
Thu May 29, 2025, 10:10 AM
May 29

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They present the abundance agenda both as a Third Way policy alternative and as a way to initiate new economic conditions that will diminish the appeal of the "socialist left" and the "populist-authoritarian right".
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Abundance_(Klein_and_Thompson_book)

I am not a supporter of the abundance approach, so I recommend conducting your research on the subject.

The Last Abundance Agenda

In the 1980s, Wall Street vowed to make housing more affordable through deregulation of housing finance. The result was the 2008 crisis.
by David Dayen April 1, 2025

I was content to sit out the Abundance™ 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. (As an aside, I was amused that when the authors saw fit to mention the Prospect in Abundance, they didn’t discuss the aforementioned back-and-forth at all, but instead briefly referenced a Bob Kuttner blog post about the back-and-forth.) https://prospect.org/infrastructure/housing/2025-04-01-last-abundance-agenda/




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