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Symposium

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.

Symposium

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.

Symposium

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.

Symposium

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.

Essay

Remembering Lani Guinier

By Gerald Torres

Gerald Torres reflects on the ideas that animated the life of Lani Guinier.

Weekly Roundup

Weekly Roundup: January 28, 2022

By LPE Editors

The week in review: lessons in legal mobilization, seven reactions to the Court’s decision blocking OSHA’s vaccine mandate, and a new paper on the IMF’s Stand-By Arrangement with Argentina.

Roundtable

Eight Reactions to NFIB v. Department of Labor

By Luke Herrine, Noah Zatz, Veena Dubal, Blake Emerson, Diana Reddy, Nate Holdren, Caroline Grueskin, Charlotte Garden

Luke Herrine, Noah Zatz, Veena Dubal, Blake Emerson, Diana Reddy, Nate Holdren, Caroline Grueskin, and Charlotte Garden offer their initial reactions to the Court’s decision blocking OSHA’s vaccine-or-test mandate.

Essay

Lessons for Legal Mobilization

By Scott Cummings

What role do lawyers play in advancing progressive social change? Examining the recent history of labor activism in Los Angeles, Scott Cummings distills some lessons for legal mobilization in contemporary social movements.

Weekly Roundup

Weekly Roundup: January 21, 2021

By LPE Editors

The dangers of America’s property-first conception of the rule of law, the farmers’ victory in India, and a sneak preview of our upcoming event on CLS & LPE. Plus, have you tried Frugging KCP?

Essay

Indeterminacy & Political Economy: A Keywords Teaser

By Talha Syed

Birds of a feather. Ships passing in the night. Sister species. How should we understand the relationship between LPE and the critical legal traditions?

Interview

Governments are Invincible until They’re Not: On the Farmers’ Victory in India

By Veena Dubal, Navyug Gill

In the wake of a historic victory by India’s farmers, Veena Dubal and Navyug Gill reconvene to discuss the events that have unfolded over the past year, how to understand Modi’s capitulation, and what lessons other social movements can draw from this victory.

LPE Blog

Ways of Price Making, Inflation, and Energy Price Shocks

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

Monetary Power and the Core-Periphery Dynamics of Inflation

Weekly Roundup: February 11, 2022

The Fed’s Sole Mandate

Price Stability Beyond the Fed: A Symposium

Weekly Roundup: February 4, 2022

State, Economy, & LGBTQ+ Civil Rights

Weekly Roundup: January 28, 2022

Eight Reactions to NFIB v. Department of Labor

Weekly Roundup: January 21, 2021

Indeterminacy & Political Economy: A Keywords Teaser

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