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Essay

Why Are Americans So Unhappy about the Economy?

By Amy Kapczynski, Jacob Hacker

Jobs have come roaring back since the big losses of 2020, GDP has grown at its fastest annual rate in nearly four decades, and family balance sheets have become much stronger. Why, then, are Americans so unhappy about the economy?

Weekly Roundup

Weekly Roundup: March 25, 2022

By LPE Editors

The dramatic finales to our symposia on Inflation and The Next Shift. Plus, upcoming events on abolitionist movements and healthcare!

Symposium

From Steel to Health Care to Broke

By Michelle Wilde Anderson

In Braddock, Pennsylvania – home to America’s first mill for the mass production of steel – more than a third of residents now live beneath the poverty line. How did Braddock go from a steel town to a hospital town to broke?

Symposium

Financial Regulation, Price Stability, and the Future

By Rohan Grey

Financial regulation lies at the core of sound inflation management. Accordingly, progressives seeking to turn the page on the past few decades of failed macroeconomic policymaking should not hesitate to bring the full scope of financial regulatory tools to bear in the pursuit of just price stability.

Symposium

“In a Good Economy Homelessness Goes Up”: Inflation and the Housing Question

By David Stein

Shelter is one of the largest items in a person’s budget, and among the most rigid. How can the state ensure that renters don’t get crushed as workers during a recession, and then crushed again with housing costs as the economy recovers?

Weekly Roundup

Weekly Roundup: March 18, 2022

By LPE Editors

Privacy’s manifold benefits for marginalized communities, LAPD’s use of “reform” strategies to co-opt criticism and expand data-driven policing, and an LPE perspective on contemporary critiques of digital mass surveillance.

Essay

The Legal Construction of Discriminatory Mass Surveillance

By Gregory Brazeal

Can LPE offer a distinctive perspective on digital mass surveillance by the police? Or does it have nothing to add to the more general civil-libertarian and civil-rights-based objections to new forms of police surveillance as potentially oppressive and often discriminatory?

Essay

Co-optation and Counterinsurgency in Surveillance Reform

By Stop LAPD Spying Coalition

This essay examines LAPD’s use of “reform” strategies to co-opt criticism and expand data-driven policing, with a focus on the role of lawyers and legal academics.

Essay

Privacy’s Democratic Pushback

By Scott Skinner-Thompson

The public square is too often a place of surveillance, violence, hate, and subordination, with members of historically marginalized groups bearing the brunt of these harms. Privacy rights enable marginalized communities to enrich the public sphere while protecting themselves from violence and subordination.

Weekly Roundup

Weekly Roundup: March 11

By LPE Editors

The nature of property in contemporary capitalism, the legacies of the divided welfare state, and the need for a just transition to redress political isolation and subordination.

Symposium

Communities of Extraction

By Wyatt Sassman

In regions marred by extractive industry, a just transition requires redressing the political isolation and subordination of people living at the fenceline.

Symposium

Servicing Social Citizenship in a Divided Welfare State

By Karen Tani

The pernicious effects of the divided welfare state are well known. Yet its darkest legacy may be how private health care benefits transmuted ill and aging bodies into rich and predictable streams of revenue.

Essay

Profiting from the Efforts of Others: Understanding Property-as-Capital

By Paddy Ireland

The annual ranking of the world’s richest highlights the often dramatic shifts, upwards and downwards, in the net wealth of elites. What do these fluctuations tell us about the nature of the things – the property – these elites own, and about the nature of property in contemporary capitalism?

Weekly Roundup

Weekly Roundup: March 4, 2022

By LPE Editors

The making of a new working class, the role of labor law in facilitating the degradation of work, and the Rube Goldberg machine that is American health care. Quite a week!

Symposium

The Making of a Caregiving Crisis

By Allison K. Hoffman

A system of employer-based health benefits created not only a fragmented health care financing structure but also an extremely powerful and consolidated industry that now resists changes to that structure.

LPE Blog

Why Are Americans So Unhappy about the Economy?

Weekly Roundup: March 25, 2022

Financial Regulation, Price Stability, and the Future

“In a Good Economy Homelessness Goes Up”: Inflation and the Housing Question

Weekly Roundup: March 18, 2022

The Legal Construction of Discriminatory Mass Surveillance

Weekly Roundup: March 11

Communities of Extraction

Profiting from the Efforts of Others: Understanding Property-as-Capital

Weekly Roundup: March 4, 2022

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