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One Billion Americans

The Case for Thinking Bigger

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One Billion Americans

By: Matthew Yglesias
Narrated by: Matthew Yglesias
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 NATIONAL BESTSELLER

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 unaffordable housing. The winner in the future world is going to have more—more ideas, more ambition, more utilization of resources, more people.

Exactly how many Americans do we need to win? According to Matthew Yglesias, one billion.

From one of our foremost policy writers, One Billion Americans is the provocative yet logical argument that if we aren’t moving forward, we’re losing. Vox founder Yglesias invites us to think bigger, while taking the problems of decline seriously. What really contributes to national prosperity should not be controversial: supporting parents and children, welcoming immigrants and their contributions, and exploring creative policies that support growth—like more housing, better transportation, improved education, revitalized welfare, and climate change mitigation. Drawing on examples and solutions from around the world, Yglesias shows not only that we can do this, but why we must.

Making the case for massive population growth with analytic rigor and imagination, One Billion Americans issues a radical but undeniable challenge: Why not do it all, and stay on top forever? Economic Conditions Economics Emigration & Immigration Politics & Government Social Sciences Capitalism Socialism Immigration Economics

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Matt Yglesias makes strong arguments for why America should continue to lead the world economically and politically in the 21st century. The only way that's remotely feasible in the presence of rapidly growing rivals like China and India is a return to historic rates of population growth through less restrictive immigration policy and a more egalitarian family policy. this book provides a path leading away from the profound malaise presently afflicting America, on a path with both rapid and sustainable growth. Anyone looking to keep America great would be wise to give it a careful read.

A Closed America is a dying America

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This book does a great job in providing policy ideas to ensure future American greatness. Some of the ideas are a little esoteric but there are also some sensible seeming ones. How good the ideas are is difficult to say but the book is entertaining.

Great national revivalist book

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Controversial perspective but nonetheless based on sound logic and argumentation. If only we could turn this into policy - the USA (and other developed countries with declining birth rates) would be a better place for it. Sadly the US is going in the opposite direction and the imminent end to the empire is on the horizon.

Great read

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