Archive - The Abundance and Growth Blog

What we’re reading, April 3, 2026

Factory-built housing, immigration success, and forecasting AI's economic impact

11 hrs ago • Nisha Austin and Matt Clancy

Zoned Capacity Is Like an Artificial Oil Deposit

Why cities can claim they have room for thousands of new homes on paper and still not build them

Apr 2 • Alex Armlovich

March 2026

What we’re reading, March 27, 2026

Farewell to Asimov Press, clinical trials value, and Austin's housing success

Mar 27 • Nisha Austin and Matt Clancy

Who will program manage the program managers?

The case for training the people who allocate billions in R&D

Mar 25 • Jordan Dworkin

What we’re reading, March 20, 2026

Science policy debates, housing innovation myths, and the Jones Act suspension

Mar 20 • Nisha Austin and Matt Clancy

What we’re reading, March 13, 2026

New York's Abundance roadmap, Federal housing reform, and the Science funding crisis

Mar 13 • Nisha Austin and Matt Clancy

A Directory of Living Literature Reviews

Who's synthesizing what, and what are we missing?

Mar 11 • Nisha Austin and Matt Clancy

What we’re reading, March 6, 2026

Semiconductor lawsuits, energy transmission costs, and AI-generated research

Mar 6 • Nisha Austin and Matt Clancy

Clinical trial reforms that once seemed radical

How randomized controlled trials, preregistration, and results reporting became standard practice.

Mar 4 • Saloni Dattani

February 2026

What we’re reading, February 27, 2026

Immigration debates, Tokyo’s housing lessons, and betting against DOGE

Feb 27 • Nisha Austin and Matt Clancy

What Gilded Age America and 1960s police can teach us about state capacity

The economic literature on state capacity in America, briefly explained

Feb 25 • Dylan Matthews

What we're reading: The Rest of the Abundance Job Market Papers We're Excited About

State capacity and transportation and immigration: oh my!

Feb 23 • Dylan Matthews and Nisha Austin

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