Progress In America: Innovators, Policymakers & Potholes – Nonfiction

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In Why Nothing Works: Who Killed Progress – and How to Bring It Back, Marc J. Dunkelman delivers a provocative exploration of America’s vetocracy – a system where anyone can block progress. From housing shortages to climate change, government gridlock has paralyzed solutions and eroded trust. Tracing progressivism’s shift from wielding power to fearing “The Establishment,” he argues that reformers must rediscover their roots to restore faith in democracy. In Marketcrafters: The 100-Year Struggle to Shape the American Economy, Chris Hughes argues that the world’s most dynamic economy was not born of “free markets,” but created by the policymakers actively shaping them. He reviews a century of triumphs and failures, showing how we can shape future markets – such as those in artificial intelligence and clean power production – to be innovative, stable, and inclusive. Moderated by Matt Haggman.
Buy Why Nothing Works: Who Killed Progress – and How to Bring It Back – Dunkelman
Buy Marketcrafters: The 100-Year Struggle to Shape the American Economy – Hughes

Authors

MARC J. DUNKELMAN is a fellow at Brown University’s Watson Institute for International and Public Affairs and a former fellow at New York University’s Marron Institute of Urban Management. During more than a decade working in politics, he worked for Democratic members of both the Senate and the House of Representatives and as a senior fellow at the Clinton Foundation. The author of The Vanishing Neighbor: The Transformation of American Community, Dunkelman’s work has also appeared in The New York Times, The Washington Post, The Wall Street Journal, The Atlantic, and Politico. He lives in Providence, Rhode Island.

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