Three Views of Constitutional Political Economy
Let me close this series by briefly sketching two rival visions of constitutional political economy.
Janus in Appalachia
Many lawyers, scholars and activists on the left agree that the decrepitude of the New Deal framework, along with the Court’s unvarnished neo-Lochnerian constitutional attack on that framework, seem to require an alternative account of the Constitution’s bearings on labor law
The Labor Movement Never Forgets?
Is it really a good idea for liberals and the left to be making constitutional arguments against economic inequality?
Antitrust and the Informal Sector in South Africa
This is the second post in a two-part series about law and political economy in the South African context. The series reports on a collaboration among leading ‘heterodox’ economists, left-wing sociologists, high level government policymakers, and legal scholars, advocates and activists aimed at “thinking large” about reconstructing the nation’s political economy. *** The way out…
Visions of Radical Reform in South Africa: Toward a New Constitutional Economy
This is the first post in a two-part series about law and political economy in the South African context. The second post can be found here. The series reports on a collaboration among leading ‘heterodox’ economists, left-wing sociologists, high level government policymakers, and legal scholars, advocates and activists aimed at “thinking large” about reconstructing the…