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Muskism as Fordism

Coined by a German economist in 1926, Fordism came to describe the dominant political-economic order of the mid-twentieth century. Could "Muskism" play a similar role in the twenty-first? How should we understand its distinctive regime of accumulation, and what kind of social contract does it propose?

Turning the Fiscal State on its Head

How did Virginia School neoliberals transform the tax-collecting state into an engine of subtractive redistribution? How complete was their victory? And are they still winning in America today?

Imperium, Dominium, Terra

In different ways, the seven legal scholars in this symposium all pose questions around description and prescription. Quinn Slobodian concludes the series by arguing that former supply the grounds for the latter - that what we see tells us what to do - and suggests what we are still missing.