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Making Public Debt a Public Good

By Abbye Atkinson

Dependence on public debt is a hallmark of democratic capitalist governance. How, then, can we ensure that the interests of private investors do not overtake the needs of the people that debt is meant to serve?

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Beyond Neoliberalism: Allocating Resilience through Corporate Law

By Ronit Donyets-Kedar, Ofer Sitbon

Replacing the liberal subject with the vulnerable one, and the responsive state with the restrained one, exposes the ways in which current corporate jurisprudence is blind to the allocation of resilience in society. Introducing vulnerability theory to corporate law may therefore help to ensure that all stakeholders have equal access to the corporation’s resources. . .

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Resilience Drainage and the Role of Private Law

By Hila Keren

The laws that apply to market activities have long catered to the interests of seasoned market actors. Who, then, is to watch out for us lay market users?

Weekly Roundup

Weekly Roundup: September 10, 2021

By LPE Editors

Introducing vulnerability theory, Martha McCluskey on the mythical ideal of the autonomous subject, and Brian Highsmith on the curse of fiscal federalism.

Symposium

The Bondholders’ Veto: Fiscal Federalism and Local Democracy

By Brian Highsmith

American cities’ reliance on municipal debt must be understood as part of a larger structural reliance on concentrated, mobile capital.

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Countering Neoliberal Logic with the Vulnerable Human Subject

By Martha McCluskey

Given the human condition of inevitable uncertainty and fragility, societal prosperity depends on supporting diversely situated knowledge and inclusive power—not on maximizing rewards for a few seemingly superior winners.

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Vulnerability Theory and the Political Economy of Resilience

By Martha McCluskey, Hila Keren, Ronit Donyets-Kedar

The LPE Blog introduces a particularly effective way to begin ridding the law of neoliberalism: the vulnerability theory.

Weekly Roundup

Weekly Roundup: September 3, 2021

By LPE Editors

A brief field guide to LPE, reactions to the eviction moratorium decision, and a CFP for an upcoming conference on Law & Macroeconomics.

Rapid Roundtable

Seven Reactions to the Eviction Moratorium Decision

By Amy Kapczynski, Nikolas Bowie, Tara Raghuveer, Katharine Jackson, John Whitlow, Blake Emerson, Ashraf Ahmed

Last week, the Supreme Court struck down the Biden Administration’s most recent moratorium on evictions. The decision, along with an anemic federal rental assistance effort, has put millions of people at risk of being removed from their homes. To offer our readers different ways into this important ruling, we asked Amy Kapczynski, Nikolas Bowie, Tara…. . .

Essay

LPE Field Guide: A Brief Reading List

By Sam Aber, Caroline Parker

As we promised in our post on Monday, below is a list of recommended readings—mostly, but not entirely, from the blog—that helped orient us to the critical and constructive moves of LPE. Our choices are highly partial and subjective, and there is a vast literature on the Blog and elsewhere that can help to orient…

Essay

Law and Political Economy: A (Very) Brief Field Guide for 1Ls

By Sam Aber, Caroline Parker

Two 3L LPE fans (and Blog editors) reflect on what LPE has to offer to new law students.

Symposium

Histories of Hammers

By Monica Prasad

Municipal bond finance is an important technology, but is it more like a hammer or an automobile?

Yearly Roundup

10 Hidden Gems from the Archives

By Editors

If you’re an egalitarian, why are you only playing the hits?

Yearly Roundup

The 10 Most Read Posts of 2020

By Editors

The August hit parade continues, featuring posts by K-Sue Park, Karl Klare, and Veena Dubal.

Symposium

Public Money without Public Goods

By David Stein

By documenting how public debt produced our present nightmare, Destin Jenkins allows us to dream about using public money to mend the ills of our era.

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