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By (author) Klein, Ezra; By (author) Thompson, Derek

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It”s time to rethink liberal answers to society”s biggest challenges – we must abandon fearmongering and embrace visionary action.

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**SHORTLISTED FOR THE FINANCIAL TIMES AND SCHRODERS BUSINESS BOOK OF THE YEAR AWARD 2025**THE INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER AND OBAMA BOOK OF THE YEAR”A must-read for progressives” BARACK OBAMA”Downing Street”s current hot read” ANDREW MARR”Forceful, quick-moving, important” FINANCIAL TIMESThe 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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Forceful, quick-moving … important

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The authors make their case powerfully, and the book is a good read – ambitious, entertaining, and mercifully short

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The blueprint for a more permanent rebuilding of hope and joy

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A necessary book

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A must-read for progressives who want a blueprint for reforming government so it can deliver for working people

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Spectacular … Offers a comprehensive indictment of the current problems and a clear path forward

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The most discussed political book of the season

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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

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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

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Klein and Thompson”s case studies are described with the clarity, accessibility and rigour that characterises their policy journalism

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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

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Klein and Thompson want you to hold space to dream about utopia… We have everything we need to build the future that liberals want, clean energy and affordable housing included, today! Their book explains how

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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

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The Abundance movement – a cohort of pundits and intellectuals led by the likes of Ezra Klein, Matt Y