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.

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 👇👇👇

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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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, @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 ago

law 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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im actually fairly obsessed with economics, just not the kind most US economists do

LPE Blog@lpeblog.bsky.social · 3w ago

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!

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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As 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...

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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The week in review: Jeff Gordon on anti-entrenchment industrial policy, M. Sandhu against legislative primacy, Aslı Bâli on *The Constitutional Bind* during the interregnum, and R.H. Lossin on early-20th-century criminal syndicalism laws. Plus, new CFPs, jobs, and articles from around the web!

Weekly Roundup: July 10

Fifteen of our favorite films on law and political economy, Jeff Gordon proposes an anti-entrenchment industrial policy, M. Sandhu makes the case against legislative primacy, Aslı Bâli revisits The…

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Need something to watch this weekend? Check out The Battle of Algiers or one of our other summer picks.

LPE Blog@lpeblog.bsky.social · last mo.

Busy waiting for Scotus to ruin your day? Get a jump on the weekend by browsing our LPE summer movie list!

I've got a piece out in @nycpolicyforum.bsky.social sketching out a progressive vision for municipal financial empowerment. It builds on Lauren Willis's foundational critiques of financial literacy as well @debtcollective.bsky.social's experiments nycpolicyforum.substack.com/p/beyond-fin...

Beyond Financial Literacy

Turning a Bloomberg-era program into a tool for collective power

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Today, R.H Lossin explains how early-20th-century criminal syndicalism laws invoked "sabotage" and property protection to criminalize the IWW's speech and organizing — a formula for anti-left repression that remains widely appealing.

Property, Sabotage, and the Origins of Anti-Left Repression

Between 1917 and 1921, twenty-one states passed anti-criminal syndicalism laws. These laws, which were intended to help eliminate the Industrial Workers of the World, have largely faded from public…

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New clickbait title: "A Genuinely Left Foreign Policy Can't Excuse Balogun's Red Card Reversal"

LPE Blog@lpeblog.bsky.social · last mo.

Today, Aslı Bâli argues that in this moment of deepening constitutional and geopolitical crises, the left must recover traditions that refused to separate democracy at home from anti-imperialism abroad. And no recent text has done this better than Aziz Rana's *The Constitutional Bind.*

Today, Aslı Bâli argues that in this moment of deepening constitutional and geopolitical crises, the left must recover traditions that refused to separate democracy at home from anti-imperialism abroad. And no recent text has done this better than Aziz Rana's *The Constitutional Bind.*

Revisiting The Constitutional Bind during the Interregnum

As the country marks 250 years, the left faces two imperatives at once: confronting a constitutional order warped by judicial supremacy, and reorienting American foreign policy away from endless war.

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Revisiting The Constitutional Bind during the Interregnum

As the country marks 250 years, the left faces two imperatives at once: confronting a constitutional order warped by judicial supremacy, and reorienting American foreign policy away from endless war.

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Today, M. Sandhu pushes back against recent calls for legislative primacy.

Against Legislative Primacy

On this blog and elsewhere, Congress has recently been cast as a cure for our decrepit democracy. This push for legislative primacy is a mistake: it valorizes a deeply undemocratic institution…

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Very cool post-doc opportunity to work with @samuel-bagg.bsky.social on anti-corruption institutional design. Tight deadline! @lpeproject.bsky.social @lpeblog.bsky.social #lawsky apply.interfolio.com/188955

Loved this list (sourced mostly from our editorial board), but very curious to hear what other films people would have included!

LPE Blog@lpeblog.bsky.social · last mo.

Yesterday, we shared fifteen of our favorite films exploring issues of law and political economy. What did we miss? So far, we've heard: Trading Places, Chinatown, Eddington, and Hustlers(!) Help us construct the LPE film canon by adding your favorite in the thread below!

Yesterday, we shared fifteen of our favorite films exploring issues of law and political economy. What did we miss? So far, we've heard: Trading Places, Chinatown, Eddington, and Hustlers(!) Help us construct the LPE film canon by adding your favorite in the thread below!

15 Movies to Watch for an LPE Summer

The old school year is dying, and the new one struggles to be born: now is the time of movies.

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Busy waiting for Scotus to ruin your day? Get a jump on the weekend by browsing our LPE summer movie list!

15 Movies to Watch for an LPE Summer

The old school year is dying, and the new one struggles to be born: now is the time of movies.

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Today, @jeffgordon.bsky.social explains how industrial policy tends to create large concentrated winners, foreclosing the competition it ultimately needs to succeed. To escape this dilemma, he argues, the government must pursue an anti-entrenchment industrial policy.

The Dilemma of Picking Winners

Industrial policy will often require picking winners: if there were already many domestic firms capable of producing the desired output, there would be no compelling reason for subsidy or special…

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This piece is really good on how to design industrial policy to promote competition. lpeproject.org/blog/the-dil...

The Dilemma of Picking Winners

Industrial policy will often require picking winners: if there were already many domestic firms capable of producing the desired output, there would be no compelling reason for subsidy or special…

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Industrial policy is often in tension with competition - a problem I call "the dilemma of picking winners." In this essay and the associated working paper, I propose a framework for doing industrial policy without entrenching the winners. lpeproject.org/blog/the-dil...

The Dilemma of Picking Winners

Industrial policy will often require picking winners: if there were already many domestic firms capable of producing the desired output, there would be no compelling reason for subsidy or special…

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If you're curious about the philosophy behind some of the clinic's work, check out this great post by the co-directors.

Leveraging Law School Clinics Against Family Policing

Every year, the American family policing system separates roughly half a million children from their parents. This system, though long overlooked, is increasingly being recognized for what it is: a…

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Heba Gowayed هبة جويد@hebagowayed.bsky.social · last mo.

Also if you’re looking to support organizations fighting this abuse, we were represented by CUNY CLEAR family defense clinic. They can always use your donations. www.law.cuny.edu/academics/cl...