Abundance Is Not Going to Beat MAGA

Abundance will become an important part of our political discourse, but it is not the answer.

The release of Ezra Klein and Derek Thompson’s new book Abundance has set off a policy debate between what is generally called the center and the left, but from an economic perspective is better understood as between the left and the right. Much has been written critiquing the problems of the book and the abundance approach to governance. Essentially, t…