Abundance and Its Discontents | The Breakthrough Institute

In May 2022, Ted Nordhaus and I participated in a workshop on “supply-side progressivism” organized by Ezra Klein and Steve Teles at Stanford’s Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences. As Klein and his coauthor Derek Thompson note in the acknowledgements to Abundance, that workshop took place early on the pair's journey towards the eventual publication of their important new book. Below, I’m publishing a short essay we contributed to that gathering. Much has changed in the intervening three years. During the workshop, some participants still held out hope that the 117th Congress would pass the Build Back Better Act, which of course would go on to die in the Senate and was only fractionally resuscitated in the form of the Inflation Reduction Act. Speaking of, inflation at the time was mounting but not yet the sharp focus of the public’s political attention, let alone the decisive issue in national elections. Some Democrats still talked about Joe Biden like a modern-day LBJ

Abundance and Its Discontents | The Breakthrough Institute Abundance and Its Discontents Environmentalists and Neo-Brandeisians vs. Abundance Apr 2, 2025 Share Share via Twitter Share via Facebook Share via Email In May 2022, Ted Nordhaus and I participated in a workshop on “supply-side progressivism” organized by Ezra Klein and Steve Teles at Stanford’s Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences. As Klein and his coauthor Derek Thompson note in the acknowledgements to Abundance , that workshop took place early on the pair's journey towards the eventual publication of their important

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