Treat 'abundance' as the policy‑focused subset of the broader 'progress' movement: abundance organizes around regulatory fixes, permitting, and federal policy in DC to enable rapid construction and deployment, while progress includes that plus culture, history, and high‑ambition technologies (longevity, nanotech). The distinction explains why similar actors show up in both conferences but prioritize different levers.
— Framing abundance as the institutional arm of progress clarifies coalition strategy, explains partisan capture of the language, and helps reporters and policymakers anticipate which parts of the movement will push for law and which will push for culture and funding.
Richard M. Reinsch II
2026.04.15
87% relevant
The article discusses Ezra Klein and Derek Thompson’s 'Abundance' argument and the broader 'supply‑side progressivism' movement, directly mapping onto the existing idea that ‘Abundance’ is becoming a distinct policy program on the progressive side; it names advocates, opponents, and specific policy levers (permitting, contracting, environmental reviews) that show the movement’s practical contours.
Matthew Yglesias
2026.03.02
90% relevant
The article directly interrogates the 'abundance' impulse Yglesias links to economic liberalism: by showing how lobster regulation intentionally prevents scale and consolidation, it tests the claim that policy should always favor 'more competition and scale' and echoes the existing idea’s critique of abundance‑first policy framing.
Jason Crawford
2025.12.02
100% relevant
Jason Crawford’s taxonomy (Progress vs Abundance), conference locations and speaker overlap, the cited originators (Collison/Cowen for Progress; Derek Thompson/Ezra Klein for Abundance), and the political renaming of an 'Abundance Caucus' to 'Build America Caucus'.