Patrick Lin on surveillance pricing, and Quinn Slobodian and Ben Tarnoff on the political economy of Elon Musk. Plus, last call for hot new scholarship, an opportunity for students to join ALPE, the University of Chicago launches a law and political economy minor, an interview with Stuart Schrader on the history of police unions, a report on how gig nursing platforms are deregulating healthcare, and a vision for how cities can fight back against Trump's tax on remittances.
Ben Kaufman discusses our broken banking bargain, and Vincent Joralemon reflects on the neglected class dimension of addictive platform design. Plus, a call for (your!) hot new LPE scholarship, an upcoming event on the law, politics, and economy of apocalypse, Christine Desan on the constitutional conflict over the power to make money, a new strategic agenda to address the climate and affordability crises, and a celebration of tax day with your favorite mayor, Nobel laureate, and rabble rousing economist.
Ruthy Gourevitch and Jacob Udell on financial distress in the rental market, Alaa Hajyahia and Helen Zhao on the scourge known as the Jones Act, and Kathleen Frydl on how corporations hijacked identity politics. Plus, Lina Khan and Lev Menand's new center for law and the economy, Niko Bowie and Daphna Renan's new book on judicial supremacy, a hot new issue of Law & Contemporary Problems on law and capitalism, a cool new Fordham Law Symposium on antitrust law and oligarchy, Kate Jackson's review of Lenore Palladino's Good Company, and a report by Rakeen Mabud and Melanie Brusseler on the authoritarian coalition's power grab.
Sam Moyn and Jamelle Bouie on legislative supremacy, Mariano Féliz on Argentina's debt sustainability, Ntina Tzvouala on dollar hegemony (x2), Ivana Isailović on the LPE of Social Reproduction in the EU, Mohini Mookim and Veryl Pow on prefigurative lawyering, Adam Hanieh on the economic significance of the Strait of Hormuz, and JW Mason on his forthcoming book.
Beau Baumann on the lost art of constitutional politics, Hal Singer on the market definition trap, and Ben Gerstein on the political economy of settler retrenchment. Plus, Alexander Hertel-Fernandez and Paul Sonn explain how cities and states can help boost funding for labor organizations, Samuel Bagg and Shai Agmon discuss the critical role of friction in market competition, Adelle Waldman and Matt Bruenig propose a right to full-time scheduling, Daniel Steinmetz-Jenkins interviews Sophia Rosenfeld about the rise of personal choice in the modern world, and Diana Reddy flips the script on a transaction cost-centric analysis of employment.
Seven of our favorite labor scholars and lawyers on how to revive a pro-labor vision of the Constitution, Jeena Shah on how to make sense of Trump’s contradictory treatment of Hernández and Maduro, Noam Maggor on how “good” and “bad” capitalists are not born but made. Plus, a definitive ranking of the top 5,000 legal scholars, an upcoming conference on public debt, an upcoming LPE night school meeting on Social Movements & Municipal Governance, a CFP for LPE scholars dreaming of Switzerland, and last call for the Polan Fellowship in Constitutional Law and History.
