At the Blog
On Monday, Tara Pincock argued that the government’s meager enforcement of price-fixing laws – including the DOJ’s failure to sue the landlords involved with RealPage – has created an environment where businesses see the risk of collusion as worth the reward.
On Tuesday, Andrea Cann Chandrasekher shared new research that shows chain coffee shops, restaurants, and big box stores in Black neighborhoods offer a lower quality consumer experience than their counterparts in whiter neighborhoods.
And on Thursday, Alvin Velazquez explained how bankruptcy proceedings in Puerto Rico have jeopardized the operation of its only electric utility.
In LPE Land
Blogs are back alert: the History & Political Economy Project launched a new blog this week.
(Un)cool new finding: “insurer mergers account for 22 percent of the overall cost increase in employer-sponsored health insurance in the past two decades.”
At Inquest, Joanna Schwartz discusses what Trump will try to accomplish in his second term regarding policing, and how state and local governments, advocates, and organizers can resist.
At the Roosevelt institute, Lenore Palladino and Harrison Karlewicz released a new report: The Myth That Shareholders Are Always Investors: Challenging the Paradigm of Shareholder Primacy.
In the Crimson, Niko Bowie, Kristen Weld, and Vincent Brown argue that an organized faculty is the best defense against coming attacks on higher ed.
Cool new paper: in the Yale Law Journal, James Bhandary-Alexander & Dina Shek on Coalitional Public Policy Advocacy in Medical-Legal Partnerships.
