After years of refusing to build sufficient housing, the entire country has a national housing crisis. After years of slashing immigration, we don’t have enough workers. The list goes on. The twenty-first century so far has been full of growing unaffordability and shortage. And in the last few decades, our capacity to see problems has sharpened while our ability to solve them has diminished. Bestselling authors and popular podcasters Ezra Klein and Derek Thompson join Chicago Humanities to trace the political, economic, and cultural barriers to progress and how we can adopt a mindset directed toward abundance, and not scarcity, to overcome them. Drawing from their latest book, Abundance, they ask us to rethink big problems that seem mired in systemic scarcity: from climate change and housing to education and healthcare.

Listen to the program here.

A meet and greet experience will follow this program, which requires a meet and greet ticket to attend.

Join us for a Member Reception with Spring Festival Preview preceding Ezra Klein’s program. This event does NOT include access to the member event. Please visit the Pre-Event Reception & Spring Festival Preview for Collaborators+ to register.

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