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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?

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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.

Symposium

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.

Symposium

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.

Symposium

A Just Transition for Finance

By Mohini 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.

Symposium

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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