At the Blog
On Monday, Sandeep Vaheesan kicked off a symposium on his book *Democracy in Power,* by tracing the history of electrification during the New Deal and offering a blueprint for a publicly-led path to decarbonization.
On Tuesday, Brett Christophers continued the symposium by examining different justifications for public ownership. While Vaheesan defends defends public ownership in the power sector primarily on democratic grounds, Christophers argues that the left should consider focusing instead on how public ownership can overcome key obstacles to rapid decarbonization.
And on Thursday, to ensure that you didn’t arrive at the beach empty-handed, the editorial staff highlighted some of our favorite posts on the legal underpinnings of the housing crisis. Featuring Angela Harris, Duncan Kennedy, Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor, David Stein, Kathryn Sabbeth, Karl Klare, Tara Raghuveer, and more!
In LPE Land
At Spectre, Søren Mau reviews Bruno Leipold’s Citizen Marx.
On SSRN, both Lev Menand and Benjamin Dinovelli criticize the Supreme Court’s carveout for the Federal Reserve in Trump v. Wilcox.
At Phenomenal World, Benjamin Braun & Cédric Durand examine the factions of capital vying for dominance in the Trump administration.
On Thursday, June 12, at 11:00 am, our friends at JustMoney will be hosting an online workshop to discuss Professor Morgan Ricks’s draft chapter on “Financial Market Infrastructure,” forthcoming in the Second Edition of his co-authored casebook Networks, Platforms, and Utilities: Law & Policy. RSVP here.
In the Boston Review, Lisa Miller argues that, far from protecting us, America’s unusual system of checks and balances is contributing to the authoritarianism we now face. With responses by Eric Blanc, Marcus Gadson, Gianpaolo Baiocchi, Samuel Moyn, Aziz Huq, Kelly Hayes & Maya Schenwar, and Lily Geismer.
