One billion Americans: Is it a good idea? | Matthew Yglesias | Big Think Live

We the People Want More People: Examining the Case for One Billion Americans with Matthew Yglesias

Moderated by Charles Duhigg

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Is immigration key to bolstering the American economy? Could having one billion Americans secure the US’s position as the global superpower? What if massive population growth could nourish rural economies and strengthen our country from the inside out?

Perhaps these questions are provocative fodder for more debate and contention but, for Matthew Yglesias, asking them and arguing about them is part of the American way. Join him in a conversation moderated by Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Charles Duhigg as they explore the case for one billion Americans.

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MATTHEW YGLESIAS:

Matthew Yglesias co-founded Vox.com with Ezra Klein and Melissa Bell in 2014. He’s currently a senior correspondent focused on politics and economic policy, and co-hosts The Weeds podcast twice a week. Before launching Vox, he wrote the Moneybox column for Slate and blogged for Think Progress, The Atlantic, TPM, and The American Prospect. Yglesias is the author of two books: The Rent Is Too Damn High about the policy origins of the middle class housing affordability crisis in America, and his new book One Billion Americans: The Case for Bigger Thinking. Yglesias was born and raised in New York City, but has lived in Washington DC since 2003.

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CHARLES DUHIGG:

Charles Duhigg is a Pulitzer-prize winning reporter and the author of Smarter Faster Better, about the science of productivity and The Power of Habit, about the science of habit formation in our lives, companies and societies. Duhigg studied history at Yale, received an MBA from Harvard Business School, and was a reporter at The New York Times for a decade. Today, he is a leading writer on the nature of habits and productivity. He writes books and magazine articles for The New York Times Magazine, The New Yorker and The Atlantic.

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