At the Blog
On Monday, Alyssa Battistoni kicked off a symposium on her book, Free Gifts: Capitalism and the Politics of Nature. The idea of the free gift, she argues, can give us a deeper understanding of the environmental problems that plague contemporary capitalism. It can also help us better understand capitalism itself.
On Tuesday, Rob Hunter continued the symposium, explaining why capitalist subjects are incapable of valuing the ecological systems on which our existence depends, even as we watch them collapse around us.
And on Thursday, Reshard Kolabhai laid out some lessons for LPE from the Global South. A focus on Africa, he argues, could helpfully destabilize our narratives about capitalist periods, our assumptions about the links between law and capitalism, and our understanding of progressive development policy as a solution to political economic problems.
In LPE Land
From the Knight Institute, a new CFP for Lawyering Without Law: The Legal Profession in an Age of Authoritarianism. Abstracts due December 5.
In a new report for from the Center for Public Enterprise, Advait Arun offers a comprehensive analysis of the capital structure of the AI sector and tackles the question that every policymaker should be asking: What happens in a bust?
In Dissent, Sabeel Rahman makes the case for a third reconstruction.
In the Nation, Brett Christophers discusses how to understand the effects of private equity and whether the industry’s moment is drawing to a close.
At Legal Form, Marie Thøgersen discusses international law’s fetishistic character.
At Phenomenal World, Andrew Perry helps makes sense of Mamdani’s upcoming budget, by looking at the constraints and opportunities of NYC’s unique public spending model.
And in a new article, Alvin Velazquez considers the extent to which cities like San Francisco, New York, and Chicago can use bankruptcy to politically resist Trump’s withholding of federal funds.
