At the Blog
On Monday, Madison Condon continued our series on Free Gifts by posing a deceptively simple question: Is climate change an externality? Come for the discussion of Pigou, Coase, Hale, and Holmes, stay for the call to assert democratic control over corporate investment decisions.
On Tuesday, Colleen Carrol examined a bit of brilliant faux populism in the Compact for Academic Excellence in Higher Education: a five-year tuition freeze. By creating the illusion that the right is taking decisive action to address affordability, MAGA is once again subsuming and corrupting a popular left position.
And on Thursday, Alvin Velazquez and Christopher Hampson mapped some of the connections between Christian Legal Thought and LPE, arguing that the left can’t afford to leave theological discourse to the theocrats.
In LPE Land
At the NYRB, a double dose of political economy: Zephyr Teachout on multilevel marketing schemes and Susannah Glickman and Nic Johnson on the political economy of the second Trump Administration.
At the American Prospect, David Dayen discusses the proliferation of algorithmic pricing models.
In the Drift, an interview with Stuart Schrader on abolition, copaganda, and the porous line between the military and law enforcement.
On his Blog, Paul Kelleher notes a common error in interpretations of Coase and then considers whether Coase might be friendlier to LPE than he is often cast.
At the Roosevelt Institute, a new report by Bilal Baydoun, Shahrzad Shams, and Victor Pickard examines the political economy of the US media system.
Cool new article alert: Tax Base Fragmentation as a Dimension of Metropolitan Inequality by Robert Manduca, Brian Highsmith, Jacob Waggoner.
Cool new article alert #2: The Radical Roots of the Representative Jury by Thomas Ward Frampton.
