An Abundance Agenda for Antitrust Policy

An abundance agenda for antitrust policy

A politics oriented around “abundance” has obvious tensions with the degrowth strand of the environmental movement, and it touches on longstanding intra-party disputes over rent-seeking behavior from labor unions. But a lot of the most vocal pushback has come from people affiliated with organizations dedicated to antitrust policy, people who have often described their cause as “anti-monopoly” politics. This is, on its face, odd. The book Abundan…

Anti-Abundance Types Are Wrong About Housing Market Concentration

There’s a strange shadowboxing quality to the whole abundance debate. While on the surface two liberal factions seem to be at odds over technical economic questions, in reality there’s an undercurrent of a struggle over what exactly the left should be. The abundance crowd isn’t simply arguing for deregulation in housing, and it’s not a coincidence that they are often the same people who think DEI and cancel culture have gone too far, and many of…

About That “Abundance” Agenda

June 2, 2025My middle son lived in Manhattan for ten years before relocating to Amsterdam, and during his tenure in the Big Apple he sprinkled numerous conversations with complaints (okay, rants) about the excessive costs of the city’s infrastructure. He couldn’t understand why other countries could extend their subway systems and railways at a fractionContinue reading "About That “Abundance” Agenda"