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"The Economics on Which the Law and Economics Movement Relies Is Ideology, Not Science" by Mark Glick, Gabriel Lozada, and Darren Bush (And the science more readily supports the LPE movement) cc: @lpeblog.bsky.social www.thesling.org/the-economic...
The Economics on Which the Law and Economics Movement Relies Is Ideology, Not Science - The Sling
The notion of efficiency that undergirds Law and Economics is a zombie ideological economic concept.
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for around two months now, the Trump admin has been replacing more and more previously-scheduled hearings with "mega master hearings" hey I wonder what the number of missed hearing deportation orders looks like at that same time .....oic ballsandstrikes.org/law-politics...
Today, @nhold.bsky.social explains why calls for mandatory retirement are mistaken, and what this mistake indicates about the character of elite academic circles, including the law and political economy movement.
What Rolls Downhill
Recent calls for mandatory retirement in academia are a reminder that class and other social hierarchies are something like mountains with increasingly dense fog toward their peaks: the higher up one…
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Today, @gabrielwinant.bsky.social explains why a clear picture of how age mediates class would reveal not gerontocracy, but capitalism and the fractionated class system it produces.
Cradle to the Grave
As Sam Moyn has recently argued, "class reductionism" fails to explain differentiation along the generational gradient — a pattern clearly visible in economics, politics, and ideology.
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I mean, read everything Gabe writes, but especially the things he writes for the LPE blog 👀 This piece does an excellent job laying out why we can't just sub in any identity category to Stuart Hall's famous formulation & the stakes of what it means to say something is a mediator of class
LPE Blog@lpeblog.bsky.social · last wk.Today, @gabrielwinant.bsky.social explains why a clear picture of how age mediates class would reveal not gerontocracy, but capitalism and the fractionated class system it produces.
Characteristically good analysis by Winant that speaks to something I've been alluding to. We are going to see a lot of "populist"-oriented theoretical frameworks that carve out phenomena at meso-scales to foreclose ruthless critiques of totality.
LPE Blog@lpeblog.bsky.social · last wk.Today, @gabrielwinant.bsky.social explains why a clear picture of how age mediates class would reveal not gerontocracy, but capitalism and the fractionated class system it produces.
Never miss the chance to learn from Gabe about class and its relationship to other social categories.
LPE Blog@lpeblog.bsky.social · last wk.Today, @gabrielwinant.bsky.social explains why a clear picture of how age mediates class would reveal not gerontocracy, but capitalism and the fractionated class system it produces.
Today, @gabrielwinant.bsky.social explains why a clear picture of how age mediates class would reveal not gerontocracy, but capitalism and the fractionated class system it produces.
Cradle to the Grave
As Sam Moyn has recently argued, "class reductionism" fails to explain differentiation along the generational gradient — a pattern clearly visible in economics, politics, and ideology.
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Our annual @cape-team.bsky.social research conference on American Political Economy starts today at noon! Come join us for a discussion on new frontiers in APE scholarship, climate politics, and identity and symbolic politics and its intersection with political economy!
Consortium on the American Political Economy (CAPE)@cape-team.bsky.social · last wk.Live Soon: The annual #APE conference starts today at noon ET! Register (yale.zoom.us/meeting/regi...) and join today's events 👇👇👇
(Two) weeks in review: Madison Condon and Luke Herrine on the economics that Law & Economics ignores, Jeremy Bearer-Friend and Sarah Polcz on taxing AI equity, Matt Bodie on the persistence of shareholder primacy, and Diana Reddy on theorizing discrimination for the bad jobs economy.
Weekly Roundup: July 24
Madison Condon and Luke Herrine on the economics that Law & Economics ignores, Jeremy Bearer-Friend and Sarah Polcz on why we should tax AI equity, Matt Bodie on the persistence of shareholder primacy...
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For @nycpolicyforum.bsky.social, I interviewed Michael Sant'Ambrogio and Glen Staszewski, two of the leading experts on participatory administration, on what lessons the Mamadni admin can learn from federal experiments. open.substack.com/pub/nycpolic...
Democracy Between Elections
A conversation with Michael Sant’Ambrogio and Glen Staszewski about how to increase public participation in government rulemaking.
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(Two) weeks in review: Madison Condon and Luke Herrine on the economics that Law & Economics ignores, Jeremy Bearer-Friend and Sarah Polcz on taxing AI equity, Matt Bodie on the persistence of shareholder primacy, and Diana Reddy on theorizing discrimination for the bad jobs economy.
Weekly Roundup: July 24
Madison Condon and Luke Herrine on the economics that Law & Economics ignores, Jeremy Bearer-Friend and Sarah Polcz on why we should tax AI equity, Matt Bodie on the persistence of shareholder primacy...
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I'm excited at the release of my white paper, "Entrenching Incumbent Power: Medicare Advantage, Part D, and the Politics of Health Reform" www.democracyempowered.org/documents/Ba... -- one of a new set of papers issued by the Empowerig Democracy Initiative: www.democracyempowered.org/reports.html.
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Today, Diana Reddy argues that by focusing on diversity at the top, rather than conditions at the bottom, discrimination law has failed the workers who need it most.
Theorizing Discrimination for the Bad Jobs Economy
Employment discrimination law is primarily concerned with exclusion from good jobs. Yet this leaves unaddressed a corresponding problem: employers seeking out marginalized workers in order to reduce…
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Today, Diana Reddy argues that by focusing on diversity at the top, rather than conditions at the bottom, discrimination law has failed the workers who need it most.
Theorizing Discrimination for the Bad Jobs Economy
Employment discrimination law is primarily concerned with exclusion from good jobs. Yet this leaves unaddressed a corresponding problem: employers seeking out marginalized workers in order to reduce…
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I'm gonna have to watch a bunch of job talks so interesting people please apply. You can see the mountains from your office and the dew point never gets above 60. Happy to answer any questions
Ann M. Lipton@annmlipton.bsky.social · 2w agoColorado Law is hiring! Looking at all levels, with particular needs in Tax, Labor and Employment, and Business, though we welcome applications from all specialties. Deets: jobs.colorado.edu/jobs/JobDeta...
Flattered to be in the Adlaw Reading Room, courtesy of @dtdeacon.bsky.social, for my new piece with @levmenand.bsky.social. As Dan says, it’s very short! And it’s part of a larger project, so thoughts and feedback eagerly welcomed!!
Ad Law Reading Room: "The Case for Administrative Law Pluralism," by Menand and Rosenblum - Yale Journal on Regulation
Today’s Ad Law Reading Room entry is “The Case for Administrative Law Pluralism,” by Lev Menand and Noah Rosenblum, which is forthcoming in Building Democratic Capacity: Essays on Administrative Law’s...
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Once again beating the drum for recruits to test out (virtually) my ultra-elaborate simulation, Durban mass strikes of 1973. Just worked out the rules by which the Zulu chief figure can bring scabs on the train from the homeland, and the strikers can meet them with bread or fists
Today, @matthewtbodie.bsky.social welcomes the appearance of a kinder, gentler, more ecumenical version of law and economics. Yet in corporate law scholarship, where shareholder primacy still reigns supreme, he finds scant evidence of any such shift.
Twilight of the Gods
Contemporary proponents of law and economics claim to have abandoned the idea that law is an instrument for maximizing economic efficiency and wealth. Corporate law scholars haven't yet heard the good...
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How can higher education better withstand political attacks? In a new essay, @bakerdphd.bsky.social argues that power must be shifted away from governing boards and governments, and toward faculty, staff, students, and accreditors.
Reducing the Concentration of Power
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More evidence of two-track law and econ
LPE Blog@lpeblog.bsky.social · 2w agoToday, @matthewtbodie.bsky.social welcomes the appearance of a kinder, gentler, more ecumenical version of law and economics. Yet in corporate law scholarship, where shareholder primacy still reigns supreme, he finds scant evidence of any such shift.
Today, @matthewtbodie.bsky.social welcomes the appearance of a kinder, gentler, more ecumenical version of law and economics. Yet in corporate law scholarship, where shareholder primacy still reigns supreme, he finds scant evidence of any such shift.
Twilight of the Gods
Contemporary proponents of law and economics claim to have abandoned the idea that law is an instrument for maximizing economic efficiency and wealth. Corporate law scholars haven't yet heard the good...
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ICYMI: Luke Herrine @lookheron.bsky.social and I wrote a (pretty chill, I think) response to being called part of an "intellectual vacuum"
The Economics that Law and Economics Ignores
There are more things in heaven and earth, Horatio, than are dreamt of in your philosophy.
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Madison Condon@madisoncondon.bsky.social · 2mo agolaw and econ ppl really will call the law and political economy movement an "intellectual abdication," a "vaccuum," "curiously unlettered" and that econ explores inequality "at a level of sophistication beyond LPE's wildest comprehension" and then be like LPE ppl should stop being mean to us
Today, @bearerfriend.bsky.social and @polcz.bsky.social argue their AI equity tax proposal both curbs AI risk and shows how creative tax policy can advance the Left's broader agenda.
What A Tax On AI Can Teach The Left
The rise of AI demands legislative action to mitigate its many risks. But rather than follow the same old regulatory playbook, Congress should instead embrace creative tax policy.
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Today, @madisoncondon.bsky.social & @lookheron.bsky.social explain how modern Law and Economics scholars continue to overlook legal scholarship that draws upon non-neoclassical economics. And to help correct this oversight, they offer a valuable overview of that scholarship!
The Economics that Law and Economics Ignores
There are more things in heaven and earth, Horatio, than are dreamt of in your philosophy.
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I really enjoyed working on this piece with Luke (from whom I learned so much!) responding to a Law and Economics UChicago symposium that I thought was pretty rudely dismissive of the work done by Law and Political Economy scholars
Luke Herrine@lookheron.bsky.social · 3w agoAs promised, @madisoncondon.bsky.social and I have an essay on how L&E scholars ignore LPE’s uses of non-neoclassical economics and then criticize LPE-ers for not knowing economics. In the spirit of better debate, we canvass some of that literature lpeproject.org/blog/the-eco...
NEW @crisesnotes.bsky.social PIECE: This one is a guest piece from @philiprocco.bsky.social about the recent OMB rulemaking (comment period ends tonight) that is not just an attack on science, its a complete reorganization of "Fiscal Federalism" www.crisesnotes.com/russell-voug...
Russell Vought is Using the Plumbing of Fiscal Federalism to Create a New Patronage System
EDITORS NOTE: I (Nathan) have struggled whether to rush to comment on this proposed OMB rule. Being a recent Fiscal Year 2026 OMB memo, and knowing that the OMB will continue to create new forms of bu...
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