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Weekly Roundup: July 24, 2020

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This week at the blog… Ivana Isailović analyzed the political struggles over working from home through the lenses of social reproduction and workers’ control over their time, comparing policy responses in France and the U.S. and Katharine Jackson argued that LPE should borrow some analytical tools from political theory to separate out different ways of…

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Weekly Roundup: July 17, 2020 (Featuring New Editors!)

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This week at the Blog… we continued our symposium on the legal representation of poor people. On Monday, Gregory Louis argued that critical legal practice requires a critical realist approach to law: looking everywhere, not just courts, to interfere in the political contests that structure and restructure governance regimes. On Tuesday, Sam Allison-Natale engaged with two…
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Weekly Roundup: July, 2020

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This week at the blog… we began a symposium on the legal representation of poor people, part of our ongoing conversations of LPE praxis. Helen Hershkoff and Stephen Loffredo kicked off the symposium by explaining why they wrote their manual for providing legal services for people with low incomes and how they understand the sort…
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Weekly Roundup: June 3, 2020

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This week at the blog… the conversation on the relationship between socialism and constitutionalism (started by Willy Forbath last week) continued. Sanjukta Paul explored the implication of the inevitably constitutive role of law in economic coordination for the relationship between economic regulation and structural constitutionalism, providing a drive-by revisionist account of the National Industrial Recovery…

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Weekly Roundup: June 26, 2020

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This week, The Blog hosted the first part of a symposium on socialist constitutionalism. Willy Forbath kicked off the series with a two–part post revisiting the Weimar constitution and its efforts to create a structure for worker participation in multiple levels of government, including in the firm. Sam Moyn responded with notes of skepticism about…
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Weekly Roundup: June 18 (Juneteenth), 2020

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Happy Juneteenth, everybody. See y’all in the streets. Look, we’re doing our second weekly roundup in a row! Surely this will last forever. This week at the blog: Brian Highsmith (returning LPE champion) explored the promise of and barriers to restructuring state budgets in this abolitionist moment. Amna Akbar reflected on the abolitionist moment at…

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A Very Special Weekly Roundup: Meet the New Editorial Team

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Despite several previous attempts, weekly roundups have never exactly been a weekly phenomenon here at the LPE Blog. Like New Year’s resolutions to exercise regularly, we keep starting out with good intentions and an initial consistency in fulfilling them, only to find ourselves staring at a pile of un-rounded-up weeks wondering what happened. But here…
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LPE on COVID-19 (vol. 5)

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Dear Readers,  Today we’re bringing you a special Saturday edition of our ongoing covid-19 series. Take care, LPE Blog Your first stop after reading this post should be here, to listen to Amy Kapczynski and Gregg Gonsalves on The Dig podcast. They talk about how to survive this plague – the politics of public health and…
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Public Participation as a Privilege for the Immune? LPE on COVID-19 (vol. 5)

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This post is part of our ongoing coverage of the COVID-19 Crisis from an LPE Perspective. Sam Hull– As the COVID-19 pandemic continues, debate has begun over when and how to restart society. Some proposals, such as those that call for seniors to sacrifice themselves for the good of “the economy,” expose the inherent inhumanity…
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LPE on COVID-19 (vol. 4)

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Dear Readers,  As part of our ongoing coverage of the COVID-19 crisis from an LPE perspective, we bring you a round-up of recent work from our LPE community. We’re aiming to make these a (semi) regular feature of the blog throughout the crisis. Above all, we hope you are as well as can be expected. …
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Slumlord Capitalism v. Global Pandemic: LPE on Covid (vol 3)

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As part of our ongoing effort to bring you the best LPE work on COVID-19, today we bring you this piece from John Whitlow, followed by a roundup of LPE COVID writing published elsewhere.  The poet Langston Hughes once wrote, “I wish the rent was heaven sent.” With a record 10 million Americans filing for…
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LPE on COVID 19

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We’re living in strange times. As we try to make sense of the moment, LPE Blog wants to offer some COVID 19 coverage from our regular contributors. We’re starting today with some work that Amy Kapczynski has done with various colleagues.
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Weekly Roundup, March 12, 2020

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…on Thursday! Because time is just a social construct, man. Plenty of action on the blog since we last rounded up. We hosted symposia on money bail reform, on interdisciplinary methods in political economy, on Ganesh Sitaraman and Anne Alstott’s book on public options, and on Daniel Markovits’s book on meritocracy and inequality. Amy Kapczynski…
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Weekly Roundup: February 7, 2020

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We’re sure at least a couple links in this long list of LPE-related content will garner a click: A book review of Goliath: The 100-Year War Between Monopoly Power and Democracy, where Gabriel Winant discusses the power and limits of the anti-monopolist tradition The Center Blows Itself Up: Care and Spite in the ‘Brexit Election’…
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Weekly Roundup: December 9, 2019

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We’ve been so chock full of posts that we haven’t had the time to round them up! Since our last round up, we’ve hosted two symposia: The LPE in Europe Symposium, with Ioannis Kampouraksis’s introductory meditation on what might travel the trans-Atlantic wire, Federico Fornasari’s consideration of the relationship between environmentalism and European corporate law,…