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…

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…

…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…

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’…

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,…

The latest in LPE World: An interview with Bolivian anthropologist Raul Rodriguez Arancibia on the role of right-wing Christian leadership in the coup against Evo Morales (Related: NACLA Statement on the Coup in Bolivia: In Solidarity with Bolivians Resisting Military Intervention and Right-Wing Violence); Let Them Eat Tech: the Democratic Party’s love affair with tech…

Greetings, friends! Recent media that might be of interest: For a look at market fundamentalism through the story of The Economist magazine, check out this article from the New Yorker. A book review of Bhaskar Sunkara’s The Socialist Manifesto: The Case for Radical Politics in an Era of Extreme Inequality See the October 31 episode of Doug Henwood’s podcast,…

Here are some things we’re reading: Last week on the blog, we continued our series on labor and the Constitution. This week, we featured highlights from LPE student organizing. These days in Rawls: a review in the New Republic of Katrina Forrester’s book In the Shadow of Justice by Jedediah Purdy, and a review in…