“Abundance” came out a little over a year ago. It’s been exciting — and a little disorienting — seeing how it’s rippled out into the world, and the ways it’s been embraced and debated and critiqued. So I wanted to take a moment to talk through what’s really happened in the last year – with Derek Thompson, my “Abundance” co-author, and Marc Dunkelman, whose book “Why Nothing Works” came out around the same time, and circles the same ideas.
What has the abundance movement actually achieved in the last year? Where has it fallen short? And what have the three of us learned from our critics?
Mentioned:
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Abundance by Ezra Klein and Derek Thompson
Why Nothing Works by Marc J. Dunkelman
Derek Thompson’s Substack
The Power Elite by C. Wright Mills
The Power Broker by Robert A. Caro
“The Most Expensive Mile of Subway Track on Earth” by Brian M. Rosenthal
“Why Are Palantir and OpenAI Scared of Alex Bores?” by The Ezra Klein Show
“The Anti-Social Century” by Derek Thompson
Bowling Alone by Robert D. Putnam
The Permanent Problem by Brink Lindsey
“Bernie Sanders: ‘There Ain’t Much of a Democratic Party” by Bernie Sanders and David Leonhardt
Book Recommendations:
Making a New Deal by Lizabeth Cohen
Stuck by Yoni Appelbaum
Cadillac Desert by Marc Reisner
Mere Christianity by C. S. Lewis
The Secret History by Donna Tartt
Blood Meridian by Cormac McCarthy, Narrated by Richard Poe
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