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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.

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Labor Law and Employer Domination: From Steel to Care

By Brishen Rogers

Postwar steelworkers and contemporary healthcare workers inhabited strikingly different economic circumstances. Yet in both eras, courts allocated to companies various powers they could use to impose market discipline on workers, thereby facilitating the degradation of work.

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The Making of a New Working Class

By Gabriel Winant

What happens when the factory is gone and the working class has been rendered dispersed and invisible? In this post, Gabriel Winant kicks off a symposium on his recent book, The Next Shift: The Fall of Industry and the Rise of Health Care in Rust Belt America.

Weekly Roundup

Weekly Roundup: February 25, 2022

By LPE Editors

Looking beyond monetary policy to manage price increases in food and energy, a just transition for finance, an upcoming event on the political economy of care, and office hours for those interested in academic careers in LPE.

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A Just Transition for Finance

By Mohit Mookim

The quest for “non-extractive finance” is filled with legal hurdles. This post examines how lawyers can support organizers working to imagine and build a better financial system.

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Let Them Eat Cake: Inflation Beyond Monetary Policy

By Devika Dutt

In developing countries, inflation is often driven by the failure of the food supply chain. While economists are well-aware of this, they do not adequately value policies other than monetary policy for responding to inflation. It is time to discard this short-sighted approach.

Weekly Roundup

Weekly Roundup: February 18, 2022

By LPE Editors

The LPE Blog has a fever, and the only prescription is more inflation coverage: Karina Patrício and John Hogan Morris explain the global dynamics of inflation, Raúl Carrillo and Darrick Hamilton discuss the winners and losers of price stability, and William Boyd examines how government price-making rules in the energy sector are driving inflation.

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Ways of Price Making, Inflation, and Energy Price Shocks

By William Boyd

To explain soaring energy prices, we must look beyond supply shortfalls and bottlenecks to the choices that governments have made about how to price energy.

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Inflation, Race, & Labor: An Interview with Darrick Hamilton

By Darrick Hamilton, Raúl Carrillo

Raúl Carrillo interviews Darrick Hamilton about the Fed’s approach to unemployment, the racialized harms of shifting the burden of price stability onto workers, and the long struggle for fair and full employment.

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Monetary Power and the Core-Periphery Dynamics of Inflation

By Karina Patrício Ferreira Lima, John Hogan Morris

How inflation affects a country depends on how its currency is situated within the global monetary order. Peripheral states with subordinate currencies are both vulnerable to, and constrained by, monetary policy decisions at the core, an arrangement that penalizes the global periphery in ways that parallel historical patterns of uneven exchange.

Weekly Roundup

Weekly Roundup: February 11, 2022

By LPE Editors

The American judiciary as a structurally conservative institution, a new symposium on inflation(!), and everything you always wanted to know about the Fed but were too afraid to ask. Plus, three conference announcements.

Symposium

The Fed’s Sole Mandate

By Lev Menand

The Fed was not designed to fight inflation, nor is it well equipped to do so. It is time for legislators to expand the macroeconomic policy toolkit.

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Price Stability Beyond the Fed: A Symposium

By Raúl Carrillo

Introducing a symposium on the hottest topic in macroeconomics.

Weekly Roundup

Weekly Roundup: February 4, 2022

By LPE Editors

Gerald Torres remembers Lani Guinier, Joanna Wuest discusses the political economy of queer and trans civil rights, and three upcoming events.

Essay

State, Economy, & LGBTQ+ Civil Rights

By Joanna Wuest

We live in a condition in which capital drives significant social reforms while also undermining their impact and longevity by leaving destabilizing matters of economic inequality unaddressed. From this perspective, current LGBTQ+ victories are built on a shoddy foundation.

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