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Ezra Klein on the Abundance Agenda

    Conversations with Tyler | 19 March 2025 | 1h 08m | Listen Later | Podcasts | Spotify
    Interview with Ezra Klein about his book Abundance, co-authored with Derek Thompson. Argues for an agenda of increased housing, infrastructure, clean energy, and innovation. Discusses how the abundance agenda interacts with political polarization, whether it’s is an elite-driven movement, where Ezra favors NIMBYism, the geographic distribution of US cities, an abundance-driven approach to health care, what to do about fertility decline, how the U.S. federal government might prepare for AGI, whether mass layoffs in government are justified, Ezra’s recommended travel destinations, and more.

    What the EV Industry’s Challenges Reveal About Innovation and Regulation

      HBR Ideacast | 4 February 2025 | 0h 27m | Listen Later | Podcasts | Spotify
      Interview with Mike Colias about his book Inevitable: Inside the Messy, Unstoppable Transition to Electric Vehicles. Draws lessons on managing innovation, regulation, and competition from the experience of the EV industry transitioning to electric vehicles.

      Ezra Klein & Derek Thompson on Abundance

        Plain English with Derek Thompson | 17 March 2025 | 1h 21m | Listen Later | Podcasts | Spotify
        Ezra Klein and Derek Thompson discuss their book Abundance. Argues that the rules and regulations designed to solve the problems of the 1970s often prevent the urban-density and green-energy projects that would help solve the problems of the 2020s. And laws meant to ensure that government considers the consequences of its actions have made it too difficult for government to act consequentially.

        I’ve been waiting eagerly for this book. More interviews to come.

        Janie Nitze on Over Ruled: The Human Toll of Too Much Law

          Madison’s Notes | 5 March 2025 | 0h 41m | Listen Later | Podcasts | Spotify
          Interview with Janie Nitze about her book Over Ruled: The Human Toll of Too Much Law, co-authored with Neil Gorsuch. Discusses how the sheer volume and complexity of modern regulations erode trust in the legal system and create unintended consequences for individuals navigating their lives.

          Why Nothing Works ft. Marc Dunkelman

            The New Liberal Podcast | 18 February 2025 | 0h 57m | Listen Later | Podcasts | Spotify
            Interview with Marc Dunkelman about his book Why Nothing Works: Who Killed Progress – and How to Bring It Back. Discusses the history of the progressive movement and how two separate impulses – the centralization of power vs the decentralization of power – have caused progressive governance to run off the rails – making it hard to build houses, green energy, and infrastructure.

            This is not just about America. It’s an Anglo-world problem.

            Did NIMBYs Kill the American Dream?

              Capitalisn’t | 20 February 2025 | 0h 45m | Listen Later | Podcasts | Spotify
              Interview with Yoni Appelbaum about his book Stuck: How the Privileged in the Propertied Broke the Engine of American Opportunity. Argues that the crisis in American homeownership isn’t actually about cost – it’s about mobility. While there are places where housing is affordable, housing is scarce where opportunities are greater with high-quality jobs, education, and health care. Discusses why mobility matters and the implications of reduced mobility for faith in capitalism.

              This is not just about America. Property regulation making property unaffordable is an Anglo-world problem.

              Donald Shoup on the Economics of Parking

                EconTalk | 14 June 2021 | 1h 08m | Listen Later | Podcasts | Spotify
                Donald Shoup has died at 86 (LA Times obituary). This 2021 interview looks back over his life and work, drawing from his book The High Cost of Free Parking. Argues that most parking policies inflict unseen damage on the economy and urges cities to charge for curbside parking using the proceeds to improve the neighborhood beyond the curb. Also explains the harm done by requiring new buildings to provide a minimum level of off-street parking.

                See also the Nolan Gray and Works in Progress eulogy The Prophet of Parking and the interview with Henry Grabar about his book Paved Paradise: How Parking Explains the World.

                Rebecca Allensworth on The Licensing Racket

                  Freakonomics Radio | 7 February 2025 | 0h 55m | Listen Later | Podcasts | Spotify
                  Interview with Rebecca Allensworth about her book The Licensing Racket: How We Decide Who Is Allowed to Work, and Why It Goes Wrong. Backgrounds how licensing began with medicine and law but now extends to 20 percent of the U.S. workforce and argues that licensing boards are “a thicket of self-dealing and ineptitude”, keep bad workers in their jobs and good ones out, and fail to protect the public.