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Weekly Roundup: April 22, 2022

By LPE Editors

Joseph Fishkin and Willy Forbath kick off a symposium on their new book, Aziz Rana probes the persistent historical link between domestic equality and US imperial power, and Luke Herrine reflects on price-gouging and the theory of the fair price.

Essay

On Price Gouging and the Non-Ideal Theory of Fair Price

By Luke Herrine

If one spends too much time around mainstream economists, one might be inclined to think the whole idea of a state enforcing norms of fair price is either redundant or perverse. But we know better than that.

Symposium

American Social Democracy and Its Imperial Roots

By Aziz Rana

The historical high-tides for the domestic experience of democracy-of-opportunity have occurred during periods of territorial and global expansionism. A serious effort to recover this tradition entails engaging with its imperial dimensions.

Symposium

Constitutional Political Economy for a Democracy, Not an Oligarchy

By William E. Forbath, Joseph Fishkin

In the introduction to a symposium on their new book, The Anti-Oligarchy Constitution, Joseph Fishkin and William E. Forbath make the case for reviving interest among progressives in constitutional political economy.

Weekly Roundup

Weekly Roundup: April 15, 2022

By LPE Editors

The possibilities and limits of gig worker coordination under existing law, a legal regime where horizontal coordination is embraced as a social good, and the the misidentification of shareholding with investment. Plus, an LPE student group for the restless and hopeful and the hot new issue of SAQ.

Essay

The Myth that Shareholders are “Investors”

By Lenore Palladino

Hot dogs are not sandwiches, work meetings are not retreats, and shareholders are not investors. Yet only one of these conceptual mistakes illicitly lends support to the idea that all corporate activity should benefit shareholders.

Symposium

The Public Benefit of Liberalizing Coordination between Small Economic Players: The Australian Experience

By Shae McCrystal

To conclude our symposium on Root & Branch Reconstruction in Antitrust, this post offers a glimpse into an alternative universe where horizontal coordination among small players is embraced as a social good.

Symposium

Can Contract Workers Organize as Joint Venture Associations?

By Steven C. Salop

While a properly designed association of contract workers could pass muster under current Sherman Act antitrust jurisprudence, any such association will face serious practical impediments.

Weekly Roundup

Weekly Roundup: April 8, 2022

By LPE Editors

Antitrust week at the blog: Sanjukta Paul lays out some of the key affirmative principles for a root & branch reconstruction, Sandeep Vaheesan explains how strong anti-merger policy would encourage corporations to grow by expanding production capacity, and Marshall Steinbaum makes the antitrust case against gig economy labor platforms.

Symposium

The Antitrust Case Against Gig Economy Labor Platforms

By Marshall Steinbaum

In the fight to regulate the gig economy, unions, workers, and their allies have only fought half the battle: they have tried to defend the definition of employment against technology-enabled erosion. Antitrust prohibitions against vertical restraints, which prevent firms from exercising control in the absence of an employment relationship, offer a complementary. . .

Symposium

Merger Policy for a Fair Economy

By Sandeep Vaheesan

Over the past four decades, a tidal wave of corporate mergers has resulted in industry concentration, higher prices, and reduced productive capacity. The U.S. wireless industry in the 2010s offers a case study of the public benefits of strong anti-merger law.

Symposium

Root and Branch Reconstruction in Antitrust: A Symposium

By Sanjukta Paul

Given the shortcomings of the prevailing antitrust framework, a growing chorus of voices is calling for a ground-up reconstruction of competition law and policy. But what would that look like? This symposium offers an affirmative vision of the new antitrust.

Weekly Roundup

Weekly Roundup: April 1, 2022

By LPE Editors

Why are Americans so unhappy about the economy? What could LPE could gain from paying greater attention to disability? When and where is the amazing Karl Klare being celebrated? The Weekly Roundup has you covered.

Interview

A Conversation about LPE & Disability, Part 2

By Rabia Belt, Doron Dorfman, Jasmine Harris, Jamelia Morgan, Karen Tani

In the second part of their conversation on LPE & disability, Rabia Belt, Doron Dorfman, Jasmine Harris, Jamelia Morgan, and Karen Tani discuss what LPE could gain from paying greater attention to disability, and where scholars interested in the nexus of disability and LPE should turn for additional resources.

Interview

A Conversation about LPE & Disability, Part 1

By Rabia Belt, Doron Dorfman, Jasmine Harris, Jamelia Morgan, Karen Tani

In part one of their conversation on LPE & disability, Rabia Belt, Doron Dorfman, Jasmine Harris, Jamelia Morgan, and Karen Tani discuss why disability has not been a more prominent theme in the LPE movement.

LPE Blog

Weekly Roundup: April 22, 2022

On Price Gouging and the Non-Ideal Theory of Fair Price

American Social Democracy and Its Imperial Roots

Weekly Roundup: April 15, 2022

The Myth that Shareholders are “Investors”

The Public Benefit of Liberalizing Coordination between Small Economic Players: The Australian Experience

Can Contract Workers Organize as Joint Venture Associations?

Weekly Roundup: April 8, 2022

The Antitrust Case Against Gig Economy Labor Platforms

Merger Policy for a Fair Economy

Root and Branch Reconstruction in Antitrust: A Symposium

Weekly Roundup: April 1, 2022

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