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The Abundance Doctrine : Democracy Journal

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A workman on the framework of the Empire State Building, 1930. (Wikicommons via National Archives and Records Administration) Why Nothing Works: Who Killed Progress—and How to Bring It Back by Marc J. Dunkelman • PublicAffairs • 2025 • 416 pages • $32.50 Abundance by Ezra Klein and Derek Thompson • Avid Reader Press/Simon & Schuster • 2025 • 304 pages • $30 The Empire State Building, then the world’s tallest building at 102 stories, was completed in 1931. Building that majestic structure, later called one of the Seven Wonders of the Modern World by the American Society of Civil Engineers, took just one year and 45 days. Contrast that with just about anything we try to build now. And it’s not just speed. In the 1970s, 1.7 million new homes were constructed each year. Since 2021, with a population that’s more than 50 percent larger and an ongoing housing crisis, we’ve built only 1.4 million new homes a year. Or consider major legislation. Medicare was signed into law on July 30, 1965. Le

A workman on the framework of the Empire State Building, 1930. ( Wikicommons via National Archives and Records Administration) Why Nothing Works: Who Killed Progress—and How to Bring It Back by Marc J. Dunkelman • PublicAffairs • 2025 • 416 pages • $32.50 Abundance by Ezra Klein and Derek Thompson • Avid Reader Press/Simon & Schuster • 2025 • 304 pages • $30 The Empire State Building, then the world’s tallest building at 102 stories, was completed in 1931. Building that majestic structure, later called one of the Seven Wonders of the Modern World by the American Society of Civil Engineers, too

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