2026-01-23
Congress is pushing back on the administration’s proposed science cuts, as the NYT and Science report. The Senate’s bipartisan CJS package largely preserves funding across the board — science budgets at NASA and DOE are …
Market shaping. So hot right now. But for funders used to the simplicity of push funding, it can be difficult to figure out how to appropriately size a pull mechanism such that it sufficiently incentivizes innovation wit…
The Paperwork Reduction Act of 1980 probably wins the prize for “most Kafkaesque US federal law.” Whatever else it does, the PRA dramatically increases the amount of paperwork federal workers have to do. In theory, this …
The Food and Drug Administration has released a draft “Guidance for Industry” on using Bayesian methodology in clinical trials for drugs and biologics, which has been in the works for several years. It lays out practical…
Climate mitigation debates often pit restrictions on fossil fuel supply (mildly confusingly for abundance readers, called “supply side policy” in the article) against efforts to make clean energy more competitive. Zeke H…
To what extent is anti-growth zoning really a different problem from stagnant construction sector productivity? An NBER working paper sheds some light on the question. The construction productivity growth collapse after …
Abundance as we see it entails a pragmatic disposition towards governance and results that can transcend partisan and factional divides. Mayor Mamdani’s endorsement of SEQRA reform is a genuinely novel demonstration of h…