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Weekly Roundup: March 17, 2023

Darryl Li on the weaponization of terrorism torts, Emily Prifogle and Jessica Shoemaker on racial disparities in rural America, and Christopher Ali on the erasure of rural communities by the FCC. Plus, we’re asking you (yes you) to tell us about the hottest new LPE law review articles. In exchange, as always, we’ve gathered the best LPE-content from around the web, including all the must-read pieces on SVB.

Weekly Roundup: October 28, 2022

Noah Zatz on the importance of law to democracy, Carly Knight on the transformation of the corporation from creature of the state to creature of the market, and Scott Skinner-Thompson on recent books by Paisley Currah and Eric Stanley. Plus, upcoming events with Talha Syed and Saule Omarova, an interview with Gary Gerstle, and Adam Tooze on the current politics of inflation.

LPE Originals

Applications I: Banking and Finance

Week 5 explores applications of the AMRI toolkit to banking and the financial sector. The readings interrogate the laws that structure the financial system and assess proposals to promote equity, expand access, and increase democratic accountability in finance. Mehrsa Baradaran, for example, discusses the “separate and unequal credit market” that emerged from the New Deal…

AMRI 2.0 This Summer!

Following on the success of last summer’s Anti-Monopoly and Regulated Industries (AMRI) Summer Academy, this summer’s updated program will once again provide participants with a crash course in political economy, anti-monopoly, public utility, and regulated industries, drawing on cutting-edge scholarship in law, economics, and social science. Apply by May 20!

Woke Capital?

Anti-monopolists are right to worry about the concentrated power of institutional investors, but they are wrong to treat them as all bad. Common ownership presents an opportunity for the left to divide the interests of capitalists.

LPE Originals

Conference Panel: LPE & Macroeconomics

This panel will consider the law-and-macroeconomics of rebuilding the U.S. economy and repairing the nation’s social and political fabric after the global public health and economic shock from COVID-19. The emerging literature at the intersection of law and macroeconomics has tended to focus on crisis response and near-term countercyclical interventions to moderate the effects of…

The Capital Commons, Part 2: How Best to Manage Public Capital

In Part 1 of this two-part post, I explained that, owing to its endogeneity and consequent vulnerability to what I call Recursive Collective Action Predicaments, monetized public capital must, if it is to be productively rather than merely speculatively deployed, be publicly managed, while privately intermediated capital may be privately managed.I then suggested that public…

LPE Originals

Law & Political Economy: Democracy Beyond Neoliberalism

Thursday – April 2, 2020 (Emerging Scholars Day) Session 1 Economic Rights (Raúl Carrillo, Zachary Manfredi, Jeff Gordon) Environmentalism (Ted Hamilton, Alyssa Battistoni, Ama Ruth Francis) The Corporate Form (Ioannis Kampourakis, Bharath Palle, Jay Varellas) Technology (Roel Dobbe, Sanjay Jolly, Dan Traficonte) Session 2 Trade & Labor (Pascal McDougall, Das Sannoy, Diana Reddy) Reimagining Subject…

LPE Originals

Progressive Talent Pipeline: Apply by September 30!

The Progressive Talent Pipeline is a program to identify, endorse, train, and recommend a diverse slate of committed progressives for staff roles in Congress and the executive branch.  Working in government is one of the most strategic ways to impact policy-making and shape the national political discourse, but there is not always an obvious entry…

The Deficit Myth: Banking Between The Lines

“Now, the rest is up to us because we are responsible for each other and to each other.  We are responsible to the future, and not to Chase Manhattan Bank.” –– James Baldwin This post is part of our symposium on Stephanie Kelton’s The Deficit Myth. You can find the full symposium here.  Several commenters have argued that…

LPE on COVID-19 (vol. 4)

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. …