At the Blog
On Monday, Rohan Grey kicked off a series on the law and political economy of cryptocurrency by considering the how the Left lost the plot on digital currencies and how it can reclaim control over the future of money.
On Tuesday, Amanda Parsons explained how the crypto industry is partnering with state governments to craft demand for a currency that hardly anyone uses.
On Wednesday, Sandeep Vaheesan concluded our series on Marxism and Antitrust by arguing that antitrust reform can act as a complement to other forms of economic regulation, and, more broadly, as an instrument for democratizing economic life.
On Thursday, Zohra Ahmed and Madiha Tahir argued that recent criticism of U.S. attacks in the Caribbean, by focusing narrowly on the issue of military excesses, risks repeating a familiar mistake: debating how the United States wages war while leaving unquestioned why it wages it at all.
And on Friday, Quinn Slobodian shared his reflections from a recent convening devoted to the death of neoliberalism. The spirit of Bandung it was not.
In LPE Land
The Program on Law and Political Economy at Harvard Law School invites nominations for their “Freedom from Want” Writing Award. Three awards of $7,000 will be given to early-career scholars for papers that address the meaningful decommodification of access to basic needs in America. Submissions are due February 1; see here for details.
The NYC Policy Forum, a new research and publishing network dedicated to governance in New York City, aims to take policy conversations out of white papers and into the public sphere. If you’re interested in topics like Mamdani’s transition to City Hall, how NYC can ban the spread of surveillance pricing, and what it will take to make New York work better for its working class, make sure to sign up for their newsletter.
Ryan Doerfler and Sam Moyn have a new paper on The Post-Legitimacy Court, in which they explore a question that should be keeping you up at night: how should you think about a Supreme Court that doesn’t care what you think?
On his substack, Adam Bonica explains that while money doesn’t buy elections, it influences the shape of our politics in more corrosive, less visible ways.
At the Sling, Hal Singer and Jacob Linger explain how antitrust enforcers and courts will think about market definition in the pending Netflix-Warner Bros merger, and why the merger represents audacious deal that would be challenged under most administrations.
