At the Blog
On Monday, Amy Kapczynski responded to two ideas that have been making the rounds in law and economics circles: that LPE is anti-empirical, and that contemporary L&E has shed its earlier normative commitments to become a neutral social science.
On Tuesday, Sam Moyn explained why it’s a mistake, both politically and analytically, to dismiss the threat of gerontocracy by pointing to elderly poverty rates. If the bottom of the class structure requires an intersectional optic, the top does too.
And on Thursday, Rakeen Mabud argued that while the current focus on costs of living represents an essential reorientation from the left, an affordability frame that fails to confront the Trump administration’s bureaucratic and cultural power grab is bound to fall flat.
In LPE Land
A special event for New Yorkers: On July 18, Aziz Rana and Sandipto Dasgupta will be holding a one day workshop that examines left critiques of the US constitution and invites participants to initiate their own exercise in constitution drafting.
David Grewal, Sanjay Reddy, and Sarang Shah have a new paper tracing how the Consumer Price Index, under the pressure of new kinds of economic expertise and changes in administrative law, shifted from a measure promoting “decency and health” to an ostensibly apolitical metric of price levels.
On the hit podcast, Called to the Bar, Ntina Tzouvala interviews Tonia Novitz about the right to strike in international law.
Lev Menand and Noah Rosenblum have a new paper making the case for administrative law pluralism.
Over at the Knight First Amendment Institute, Salomé Viljoen argues that AI governance must give workers and knowledge producers more control over whether and how their work is used.
Ezra Rosser has a new paper laying out an architectural map of poverty law, which sets out to define the field for future scholarly engagement.
In the New York City Policy Forum, Emily Eisner and Elizabeth Cooper explain the economic function of rent stabilization.
Over at Notes on the Crises, Nathan Tankus, Joshua Lawrence, and Juan Hanes have launched an extended series on the OMB.
Finally, don’t miss the latest issue of the Journal of Law and Political Economy, featuring articles on labor exploitation, neoliberal eugenics, state capitalism, and more!
