At the Blog
On Monday, Yochai Benkler kicked off a symposium on his recent article, Structure and Legitimation in Capitalism. Synthesizing several strains of heterodox and mainstream thought, he outlines a theory of capitalism and its dynamics and develops a conception of law’s role within capitalism so conceived.
On Tuesday, Matthew Dimick continued the symposium, by investigating two questions: Where do profits come from? And how does law legitimate capitalism? To make progress on these questions, he argues, we must dig deeper into the nature of capital and the idea of the legal form.
And on Thursday, Matthew Lawrence considered what administrative law might look like after transsubstantivity. Reflecting on his recent work on drug scheduling, he offers insights about bridging substance specificity with cross-cutting procedural values and considerations.
In LPE Land
Out now: Nikolas Bowie and Daphna Renan’s Supremacy: How Rule by the Court Replaced Government by the People. And don’t miss an upcoming event (virtual + in person) on the book at the Center for Law and the Economy (Thursday, Sept. 24).
Also hitting the shelves this week: Allison Tait’s new book, The House That Family Money Built: How Inequality Governs Debt and Wealth Management.
Ntina Tzouvala and Jessica Whyte on the transition from dollar hegemony to dollar dominance.
A Balkinization symposium on the the Global Political Economy of Artificial Intelligence.
For those in NYC, the Health and Political Economy Project invites you to an upcoming event (Monday, Sept. 28) on Public Pharma, Public Power: Taking Back Control of the Medicine Supply.
At the Boston Review, JS Tan and Clarissa Redwine discuss the rise and fall of tech worker power.
At the Rent Roll, Jacob Udell and Ruthy Gourevitch interview Sam Stein about his new book, A Right to Housing?
