Abundance
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2 episodesDo You Need Rich Parents to Buy a Home? — with Kyla Scanlon and Aziz Sunderji
A guest invokes Abundance by Ezra Klein and Derek Thompson to frame the blue-state vs. red-state housing debate, characterising its central argument as: regulatory failures driven by left-leaning politics explain America's failure to build and high home prices. The speaker then directly rejects this thesis, saying it "doesn't survive the data" and is "just not right," arguing that the blue/red framing is too simple.
How Abundance Has Failed and Succeeded
Derek Thompson, co-host and co-author, reflects on Abundance eighteen months after publication. He describes it as 'tough medicine for liberals and Democrats,' arguing that the left had grown too focused on preventing abuses of power while neglecting the costs of governments that cannot build. He evaluates whether the book's agenda has succeeded or failed, noting that bipartisan permitting and housing-supply reforms suggest its core arguments have gained real policy traction even as its electoral influence remains contested.
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