At the Blog
On Monday, Marc Shkurovich argued that to make medicines more accessible, policymakers cannot simply enact price controls while leaving decisions about which drugs to manufacture and distribute in private hands. If patients are to have reliable access to the drugs they need, the government must take on a more direct role in development, production, and provision.
On Tuesday, Katharina Pistor explained why any program of transformative change must reckon with the fact that capitalists have largely succeeded undermining the state’s capacity to act, rendering it too weak to carry out social democratic reform even with a favorable government in place.
And on Thursday, Yochai Benkler concluded our symposium on “Structure and Legitimation in Capitalism,” responding to Matthew Dimick, Jed Purdy, and Katharina Pistor. To understand the place of the state in capitalism, he argues, we must take social relations as the basic unit of analysis.
In LPE Land
A huge congrats to our editorial board member Veena Dubal on being named a 2026 Freedom Scholar.
On the hit podcast 5-4, Niko Bowie and Daphna Renan discuss their new book, Supremacy: How Rule by the Court Replaced Government by the People.
On the hit podcast Death Panel, Beatrice Adler-Bolton speaks with Nate Holdren about how the concept of “gerontocracy” reinforces dominant ideas about disposability being tied to ability, capacity and age.
At the Sling, Dylan Gyauch-Lewis reviews Lindsay Owens’s Gouged and Isabella Weber’s Anti-Fascist Economics.
In the Antitrust Law Journal, Sanjukta Paul has a new article, “The Basis of the Labor Exemption Reconsidered.”
In the American University Law Review, Sandeep Vaheesan has a new article, “Lawbreaking as a Method of Competition.”
