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California’s retort to Mancur Olson
How political ambition, social media, and smart dealmaking overturned the interest-group trough in a liberal bastion.
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Chris Elmendorf
Why healthcare should unite abundance and antitrust
Over the last few months, internecine battles between abundance and antitrust advocates have been fought across book reviews, podcasts, and social…
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Olivia Webb Kosloff
Lessons from the forgotten history of Democratic abundance
Moderates and leftists misunderstand the 1990s. That is stopping them from seeing their joint path forward.
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Henry M. J. Tonks
It's time for abundance Democrats to embrace cultural moderation
The left argues that economic populism lets you ignore voters' cultural concerns. Abundance Democrats know that is wrong, and they should say it.
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Matthew Yglesias
YIMBYism started as a single-issue movement. It's time to think bigger.
New research shows that voters who like cities back denser housing. To make cities more likeable, YIMBYs need to act more like a party.
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Chris Elmendorf
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David Schleicher
Abundance is asking the wrong question
When you focus on reviving a party, you miss the opportunity to revive faith in the American Dream.
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Frank DiStefano
Abundance crashes the party
We debate whether abundance should turn its momentum into a partisan project–and if so, how.
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David Dagan
Democracy requires reinvention
A newly sharpened focus for Hypertext, and coming attractions.
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David Dagan

May 2025

The lessons of Operation Warp Speed
Emergency powers should be used sparingly, but advance market commitments and a new regulatory approach to risk could boost the supply of vital…
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Alex Tabarrok
Building a law of abundance
The artificial scarcity plaguing our economy is deeply rooted in a "law of constraint" built over half a century. How do we unwind it?
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Steven Teles
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David Dagan
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Matthew Meyers
What left-wing critics don’t get about abundance
If these reviews are the best that critics of abundance have, the movement has a solid future.
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David Schleicher
The NIMBYs aren’t who you think
Planning objections are manufactured objects - the output of an industry.
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Dan Davies
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