Abundance by Ezra Klein

**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.

Time to rethink liberal answers to society’s biggest challenges – by ditching scarcity politics and embracing visionary action to create an abundant future

About the Author: Ezra Klein is a columnist and podcast host at the New York Times. He is the author of NYT-bestseller Why We’re Polarized. Derek Thompson is a journalist and former staff writer at The Atlantic. He runs a popular Substackand is the author of the international bestseller Hit Makers.

26 Feb 2026
 

Abundance: THE INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER and SHORTLISTED FOR THE FT BUSINESS BOOK AWARD: How We Build a Better Future by Ezra Klein ISBN 9781805226062