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Cost-Benefit Analysis at a Crossroads: A Symposium on the Future of Quantitative Policy Evaluation
Introducing an LPE symposium on the promise, the perils, and the possible future of cost-benefit analysis.
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The Same System, the Same Results
Every year, governments and public entities wrestle with tough decisions about how they will fund their communities, and every year we absolve Wall Street of its role in siphoning money away from our public budgets. Enough is enough.
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Making Public Debt a Public Good
Dependence on public debt is a hallmark of democratic capitalist governance. How, then, can we ensure that the interests of private investors do not overtake the needs of the people that debt is meant to serve?
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Beyond Neoliberalism: Allocating Resilience through Corporate Law
Replacing the liberal subject with the vulnerable one, and the responsive state with the restrained one, exposes the ways in which current corporate jurisprudence is blind to the allocation of resilience in society. Introducing vulnerability theory to corporate law may therefore help to ensure that all stakeholders have equal access to the corporation’s resources and assets.
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Resilience Drainage and the Role of Private Law
By
Hila Keren
The laws that apply to market activities have long catered to the interests of seasoned market actors. Who, then, is to watch out for us lay market users?
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The Bondholders’ Veto: Fiscal Federalism and Local Democracy
American cities’ reliance on municipal debt must be understood as part of a larger structural reliance on concentrated, mobile capital.
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Countering Neoliberal Logic with the Vulnerable Human Subject
Given the human condition of inevitable uncertainty and fragility, societal prosperity depends on supporting diversely situated knowledge and inclusive power—not on maximizing rewards for a few seemingly superior winners.
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Vulnerability Theory and the Political Economy of Resilience
The LPE Blog introduces a particularly effective way to begin ridding the law of neoliberalism: the vulnerability theory.
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Histories of Hammers
Municipal bond finance is an important technology, but is it more like a hammer or an automobile?
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Public Money without Public Goods
By
David Stein
By documenting how public debt produced our present nightmare, Destin Jenkins allows us to dream about using public money to mend the ills of our era.
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The Myth of Fair Share/Equal Share Bond Projects
Los Angeles’s King-Drew Medical Center, a public hospital originally intended to provide Black residents with quality healthcare, is a cautionary tale about using bond financing to advance racial equality.
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On Judging Cases in the Context of Crisis
By
Lynn Adelman
I thank the Law and Political Economy Project for inviting me to participate in this blog symposium on capitalism and the courts. I begin by stating the obvious: that we live in a capitalist economic system and a political system that aspires to being democratic. There is clearly considerable tension between these systems. Most capitalists…
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Courts and Constitutional Political Economy
If history is any guide, the long-term solution when the courts are aligned against liberal and progressive causes is not to “reform” the politics out of the courts, but, rather, to confront the courts through politics itself.
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On Courts, Exchanges, and Rights
If CLS was right to point out that law is a form of politics, why does the separation between law and politics exist and persist in our contemporary capitalist society, practically and institutionally if not conceptually?
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Market-Based Law Development
To understand courts’ relation to the reproduction of economic domination requires close investigation of how they actually work for different types of litigants.