One Billion Americans
The Case for Thinking Bigger
by Matthew Yglesias
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Recommended by 1 source and appears in Immigration, Finance, and Politics.
What would actually make America great: more people. If the most challenging crisis in living memory has shown us anything, it's that America has lost the will and the means to lead. We can't compete with the huge population clusters of the global marketplace by keeping our population static or letting it diminish, or with our crumbling transit and...
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Recommended by 1 source and appears in Immigration, Finance, and Politics.
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Adam Ozimek
“Finally finished One Billion Americans. Amazing, big, bold, beautiful book. I don’t endorse every policy but that’s not the point. The point is we need to think bigger (population), and that is correct.”
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