One Billion Americans

One Billion Americans
Matthew Yglesias
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Hardback
h228 x 152mm - 320pg
10 Sep 2020 US
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9780593190210
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America is in decline. Fewer children are born each year due to financial pressure. Thousands flee our iconic cities with their housing shortages and broken infrastructure. While we tie ourselves into knots trying to stop the flow of immigrants, our exhausted economy deflates the heartland' s already shrinking population. To survive China' s impending global takeover (not to mention Russia), we can' t afford to be weak. We need to get bigger, much bigger. We need one billion Americans. In this timely and provocative book, Matthew Yglesias makes the case for massive population growth through humane family and immigration policy. Of course, more people requires more housing, not to mention better transportation, improved education, a revitalized welfare system, and climate change mitigation. Why not do it all, and stay on top forever? Written with Yglesias' s signature humor and analytic rigor, One Billion Americans challenges readers across the political spectrum to take decline seriously. Drawing on economic theory and research from leading policy experts, he offers ideas from around the globe-from Singapore' s approach to traffic jams to Canada' s town planning-that move us beyond left-right divides, to explore the practical and creative solutions our times call for.
"An argument that blends demography, economics, and politics . . . The thesis is eminently arguable, but the book is packed full of provocative ideas well worth considering. "--Kirkus Reviews, starred review
Matthew Yglesias co-founded Vox. com with Ezra Klein and Melissa Bell in 2014. He' s currently a senior correspondent focused on politics and economic policy, and co-hosts "The Weeds" podcast twice a week. Before launching Vox, he wrote the Moneybag column for Slate and blogged for Think Progress, The Atlantic, TPM, and The American Prospect. Yglesias is the author of two books, most recently The Rent Is Too Damn High about the policy origins of the middle class housing affordability crisis in America. Yglesias was born and raised in New York City, but has lived in Washington DC since 2003.
Status: Indent title, imported to order
ISBN-13: 9780593190210
Published: 10 Sep 2020
Published In: United States
Imprint: Berkley Publishing Corporation US
Publisher: Penguin Putnam Inc
Format: Hardback
Height: 228mm
Width: 152mm
Pages: 320

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