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A review by mabersold
One Billion Americans: The Case for Thinking Bigger by Matthew Yglesias
4.0
Excellent and thought-provoking book from everybody's favorite neoliberal shill, Matt Yglesias. There's a number of ideas from this book that I just want to shout from the rooftops: more mass transit! More immigration! Make it legal to build denser housing! It also addresses issues that I don't really have a solution for, like how to revive the faded cities of yesteryear.
Overall I'm not sure how many of these proposals are going to be implemented on a large scale and I would be shocked if our country actually did put in a concerted effort to grow to a population of one billion. However, we do need to recognize that if we want our country to remain competitive, we're going to need more people, and we should, at the very minimum, be smarter about how we're going to grow.
Overall I'm not sure how many of these proposals are going to be implemented on a large scale and I would be shocked if our country actually did put in a concerted effort to grow to a population of one billion. However, we do need to recognize that if we want our country to remain competitive, we're going to need more people, and we should, at the very minimum, be smarter about how we're going to grow.