cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/27088982
This book is creating quite a buzz. See the basics and one review among many.
People being what they are, there’s no doubt that this is an election-winning agenda for the Democrats. And the authors are both very serious people. I’m reluctant to write off Ezra Klein, who IMO is not just very smart but also circumspect and fair-minded.
But all this also looks to me like an advanced case of deluded wishful thinking. Or of “cornucopian economics”, as EO Wilson called it.
What to conclude?
And another meta-review today, from Vox’s Eric Levitz. Again, basically on board with the “Abundance agenda” as a sort of left-leaning Reaganism and election-winner. Which it no doubt is. The question whether it’s sustainable in a world of fast-shrinking planetary limits is passed over entirely.