Bloomberg Fails on Abundance

America’s foremost transportation reporter doesn’t get it

The public-policy book of ten years ago was Thomas Piketty’s Capital in the Twenty-First Century. Here’s a joke that went around at the time:

The joke’s author, Matt Darling, has noted that this is “the standard response to public policy books”, particularly in regard to the public-policy book of our moment: Ezra Klein and Derek Thompson’s Abundance.

The …