I just finished Abundance  by Ezra Klein and Derek Thompson, and it is full of food for thought.   The book is ostensibly about why we've stopped building things in America—housing, infrastructure, clean energy, all of it. But the real argument runs deeper; we've become a society more comfortable saying "no" than saying "yes." Permitting processes, regulatory capture, NIMBYism, vetocracy—the mechanisms we built to prevent bad things have calcified into systems that prevent al