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Abundance

2025

Avid Reader Press

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Book Review

What Makes Cities Go BANANA?

New York City NIMBYism, restrictive zoning, and Ezra Klein and Derek Thompson’s "Abundance."

by Achilles Kallergis via Public Seminar on November 4, 2025
Book Review

The Inadequacy of the Abundance Agenda

Three new books propose market solutions to problems that require government intervention. We’ve been here before. It didn’t end well.

by Timothy Noah via The New Republic
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on March 27, 2025

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Workers at Watts Bar Dam, Tennessee. Tennessee Valley Authority (TVA). Arthur Rothstein, photographer, 1942. Courtesy the Library of Congress.

The First Prophet of Abundance

We still have a lot to learn from David Lilienthal’s account of his years running the Tennessee Valley Authority.

by Kevin Hawickhorst via Asterisk on November 24, 2025

A Rural Electrification Administration advertisement of a worker setting up an electrical line.

How Co-Ops Electrified America

In the 1930s, private utilities balked at the task of bringing electricity to rural America. A New Deal agency figured out how to do it instead.

by Kevin Frazier via Asterisk on September 15, 2025

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