Forceful, quick-moving ... important

Financial Times

A necessary book

New Statesman

Abundance is one of those books that matter ... filled with chilling examples but also with inspirational stories ... it explains that the scarcities that afflict our economies are scarcities we have actively chosen. Making it easier to build will enable us to build a better future. But it is a future that needs to be not just argued for, but fought for

- Robert Colvile, Sunday Times

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At a time of global realignment and uncertainty, Klein and Thompson offer a bracingly bold basis for a progressive politics and policy that is both radical and realistic. One of the most important political books I have read in the past decade

- Matthew d’Ancona, The New European

Klein and Thompson want you to hold space to dream about utopia. No need to tighten the belt, they argue: We have everything we need to build the future that liberals want, clean energy and affordable housing included, today! Their book explains how

New York Times

Abundance reminds us that the UK isn't the only country that has forgotten how to build [and] there is reassurance here for British readers [on] how to build millions of homes and a new green infrastructure ... Klein and Thompson have sidestepped the current American political horror show to produce something original: a left-liberal manifesto for deregulation, or as they call it, "a liberalism that builds". Only that can create green-fuelled abundance

- Simon Kuper, New Statesman

The country is plagued by an affordability crisis, a housing shortage, crumbling infrastructure, and a general sense of diminishing expectations... and in their buzzy new book, [Klein and Thompson] argue that scarcity is a choice, and that "to have the future we want, we need to build and invent more of what we need"

- Sohale Mortazavi, UnHerd

Klein and Thompson's analysis focuses exclusively on the US, but their agenda is being put to practice in no major economy apart from Labour's Britain

- Mehreen Khan, The Times

The most discussed political book of the season

London Review of Books

A guide for liberals shaken by an age of factional polarisation ... [Klein and Thompson] are the best in the business at digesting and synthesizing expertise from a host of fields ... Abundance might inspire a demoralised Democratic Party to think big again

- Samuel Moyn, New York Times Book Review

Downing Street's current hot read

- Andrew Marr, New Statesman

Spectacular ... Offers a comprehensive indictment of the current problems and a clear path forward... Klein and Thompson usher in a mood shift. They inspire hope and enlarge the imagination by describing the good things that are actually within our grasp: abundant energy, cheaper housing, affordable cities, shorter workweeks, lab-grown meat so that we no longer have to use 25 percent of global land to raise livestock.

- David Brooks, New York Times

Klein and Thompson are two of the smartest voices from their generation of policy-oriented journalists, moving beyond horse race coverage of politics and integrating serious social science into political commentary ... [finding] ways to strip back the barriers to effective policy and allow the government to invest efficiently in underdeveloped pockets of society

The New Republic

A potent political manifesto ... Its optimism is also compelling, even joyous ...The book's core lesson, convincingly delivered, is that liberals ought to make it easier to do the things they want to do ... a can-do antidote to blue-state malaise ... the timing of Abundance is extraordinary

Slate

... lays out a path for American liberalism focused on building the material and infrastructural conditions of a better society

- William Davies, New Statesman

What we're trying to do is to help people earn a better life, to give people agency and freedoms that they don't have today. There's a really interesting new book by Ezra Klein [and] the argument he's making is that, actually, there are all kinds of options that are opening up ahead of us.

- Liam Byrne, (as told to) Fabian Society

[Klein and Thompson] crystalise ideas that have been swirling around newspaper columns, think-tanks, city-council initiatives and social media ... that excessive regulation has hurt America by blocking housebuilding, infrastructure and innovation

Economist

The European Union can learn many lessons from this book ... it contains valuable lessons and cautionary tales that should be top of mind for leaders that are striving to keep the European project together amidst geopolitical shifts. The time for incrementalism has passed; Europe must act decisively to build abundance for all.

- Elizabeth Kuiper and Pietro Valetto, Social Europe

These authors are making an important point about the rigidities of regulation and the cost of procedural sludge

- Sarah Richmond, Times Literary Review

Klein and Thompson have started the important work of reframing what seem like neo-liberal economic concerns into political reality. Sooner or later, there really will be no alternative. If Starmer wants to avoid empowering a new Thatcher as his eventual successor, he should take a lead from Klein and Thompson and act now

- Henry Oliver, New Statesman

People like Ezra Klein fire me up, because he's absolutely right in his book Abundance

- Cory Booker, (as told to) Rolling Stone

A terrific book ... powerful and persuasive

- Fareed Zakaria, CNN

An absolute must-read

- Stephanie Ruhle, MSNBC

Shortages and growing unaffordability - from housing to the labour market are two of the defining characteristics of the 21st century. Klein and Thompson argue that this is because well-intentioned rules and regulations adopted in decades past have hobbled the present, and they explore how we can move from a liberalism that not only protects and preserves but also builds

- What to Read in 2025, Financial Times

Praise for Ezra Klein:
'It's been a long time since I learned so much from one book

- Rutger Bregman, author of Utopia for Realists,

Superbly researched and written'

- Francis Fukuyama, The Washington Post

This book helped me understand modern politics better

- Bill Gates,

Praise for Derek Thompson:
'Enthralling ... This book picks up where The Tipping Point left off.

- Adam Grant,

Fascinating

Observer

Spirited ... An entertaining and informative guide

The Times

THE INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER, BEST SUMMER BOOK and MOST-ANTICIPATED BOOK OF 2025 FROM THE FINANCIAL TIMES and NEXT BIG IDEA CLUB 'Downing Street's current hot read' Andrew Marr 'Spectacular ... Inspires hope' New York Times 'Forceful, quick-moving ... important' Financial Times 'Ambitious' New Yorker 'Necessary' New Statesman 'Chilling ... Inspirational ... A book that matters' Sunday Times 'One of the most important political books of the past decade' The New European The threat to liberal democracy isn't just autocrats - it's a lack of effective action by so-called progressives. We have the means to build an equitable world without hunger, fuelled by clean energy. Instead, we have a politics driven by scarcity, lives defined by unaffordability and public institutions that no longer deliver on big ideas. It's time for change. Bestselling authors Ezra Klein and Derek Thompson have spent decades analysing the political, economic and cultural forces that have led us here. In this once-in-a-generation intervention, they unpick the barriers to progress and show how we can, and must, shift the political agenda to one that not only protects and preserves, but also builds. From healthcare to housing, infrastructure to innovation, they lay out a path to a future defined not by fear, but by abundance.
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It's time to rethink liberal answers to society's biggest challenges - we must abandon fearmongering and embrace visionary action.
Time to rethink liberal answers to society's biggest challenges - by ditching scarcity politics and embracing visionary action to create an abundant future

Produktdetaljer

ISBN
9781805226055
Publisert
2025-03-18
Utgiver
Vendor
Profile Books Ltd
Vekt
382 gr
Høyde
232 mm
Bredde
152 mm
Dybde
26 mm
Aldersnivå
U, P, 05, 06
Språk
Product language
Engelsk
Format
Product format
Heftet
Antall sider
304

Om bidragsyterne

Ezra Klein is a columnist and podcast host at the New York Times. He is the author of NYT-bestseller Why We're Polarized, one of Barack Obama's top books of 2022. Derek Thompson is a staff writer at The Atlantic and the author of the international bestseller Hit Makers.