Matt yglesias one billion5/22/2023 ![]() ![]() One Billion Americans is a novel twist on this model. ![]() Many economics books devote themselves to cataloging the world’s ills, and then end with a curiously short “solutions” chapter that doesn’t really solve most of the problems in the book. This book, then, often feels as though it’s making the weakest possible argument for otherwise good ideas. Why, then, write a book about an impossible policy goal that few people want? The answer, in this case, seems to be that the 'one billion Americans' conceit is a kind of holdall into which Yglesias, a co-founder of Vox and longtime economics journalist, can throw an otherwise random assortment of his favorite center-left policy prescriptions. Matthew Yglesias, the author of One Billion Americans: The Case for Thinking Bigger, thinks it would be great if America were that populous. ![]() There will never be one billion Americans. ![]()
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