Building Abundance The Evidence-Based Blueprint for a Society That Works for Everyone

Ravinder Nath Bhalla, MD · Book Five of The Abundance Series

The United States spends thirteen dollars on defense for every dollar and fifty-nine cents it spends on babies and toddlers.

That is not a budget error. It is a values statement. Made by specific people, in specific rooms, over specific decades — with full knowledge of what it costs the child at the other end of the calculation.

Building Abundance names the machine that produced that arithmetic — the Extracting Self-Devouring Machine — and then does something the diagnosis alone cannot: it builds the alternative, chapter by chapter, system by system, from the evidence that already exists in the countries and communities that chose differently.

Twenty-nine chapters. Ninety concrete policy proposals. The evidence-based blueprint for what a society organized around human flourishing — rather than extraction — actually looks like.

It is not a utopia. It is Norway. It is Denmark. It is what the United States has built before, when it chose to, and what it can build again.

The book includes:

Twenty-nine chapters covering work and wages, food, mental health, healthcare, education, housing, disability, criminal justice, guns, drugs, the election system, governance, environment, media, foreign aid, military, war, reproductive rights, aging, distribution, AI, immigration, the courts, and the integrated system.

Ninety concrete policy proposals organized by chapter.

A Reading Group Guide — 35 questions, five-session arc, professional tracks for healthcare, legal, education, and policy audiences.

A Note on Sources — full citations for every empirical claim.

A Summary of Proposals — all ninety in quick-reference format..