At the Blog
On Monday, Patrick Lin explained how surveillance pricing is part of a long tradition of consumer exploitation, how states are starting to push back against this practice, and why those efforts are running into First Amendment challenges.
On Wednesday, Quinn Slobodian and Ben Tarnoff offered a deep dive into the political economy of Muskism, drawing on the insights of Michel Aglietta and the Regulation School.
In LPE Land
Last call for new LPE Scholarship: did you or a scholar whose work you love have an article accepted this academic year? If so, let us know! Next week, we’ll be highlighting some of the hottest forthcoming LPE and LPE-adjacent work from the past two submission cycles. Send nominations to managingeditor@lpeblog.org with a short description of the piece, where it will be forthcoming, and if available, a link to SSRN. Self-nominations are highly encouraged.
Are you a student interested in LPE? This your chance to join the movement: the Association of Law and Political Economy is now open to student members. Students will elect their own representative to the Board in the upcoming election, so please help spread the word.
The University of Chicago announced a new minor in Law and Political Economy. Yes, really. And, yes, the good kind of political economy!
In the Boston Review, nia t. evans interviews Stuart Schrader about how police unions helped catapult cops to new heights of power and impunity.
At AI Now, Katie J. Wells, Maya Pinto, and Funda Ustek Spilda released a new report on how gig nursing platforms are lobbying states to deregulate healthcare.
Over at the New York City Policy Forum, Michael Gallant explained how the Mamdani administration can counter Trump’s tax on remittances.
