10 Hidden Gems from the Archives
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If you’re an egalitarian, why are you only playing the hits?
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Where is the Political Economy?
Embracing the terms “economy” and “political economy,” as LPE has done, risks invoking just the kind of separate, reified realm that we are trying to critique. In our view, defining “the economy,” and studying how legal institutions have done so, should be central issues that LPE scholarship aims to address.
Producing Subjects: Rethinking Productivity, Subjectivity, and Value Part 1
In part one of this series, Anastasia Tataryn interviews Susan Brophy regarding the importance of rethinking productivity, subjectivity, and value.
Reconstructing the Algebra of Race and Rights
I follow Patricia Williams, Angela Harris & Aysha Pamukcu, in arguing universal rights, to basic income and other resources, are insufficient but necessary ingredients for justice. Indeed, I argue for permanent, non-discretionary funding of these rights. No one truly knows how much money the U.S. government spends encoding and encasing private property rights, much less private capital’s rights to coordinate or contract. In many ways, these costs are “baked into” society. So, ultimately, should it be for rights to income, healthcare, housing, education, employment for all.
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Noah Zatz
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LPE Editors
Noah Zatz is Professor of Law at UCLA School of Law. Areas of Expertise: labor & employment, social reproduction, racial capitalism, non-market work, criminal law as economic regulation
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Conference Panel: LPE, Inclusion, & Public Law
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LPE Editors
The panelists will engage in a roundtable discussion about the formation of legal, political, and economic units, social reproduction, and the state. What forms of autonomy (or interdependence) are required for true freedom or democracy? What structural barriers constrain solidarity among women (and other people) along lines of class, race, sexuality, ability, religion, age, and…
Yearly Roundup: Editors’ Picks, Part 2
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As the final post in our series of roundups at the end of 2020, here are the final two editors’ picks.
A Labor Theory of Negotiation: From Integration to Value Creation
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Amy Cohen
American negotiation theory started as, and for a long time remained, an engagement with labor and class relations. When early scholars developed their theories of negotiation in the context of workplace conflict, they did so in a moment when many workers were familiar enough with Marxist theories of class struggle to readily believe that some differences—for example, between management and labor—were not reconcilable, no matter how one performed in a negotiation. In this context, negotiation theorists aimed to open a space for potentially harmonious group relationships by introducing the concept of “integration”— the idea that labor and management could reorient their interests by creating new common values together.
Introducing the Journal of Law and Political Economy
The Editors in Chief of JLPE kick off our series celebrating its first issue!
Weekly Roundup, September 25, 2020
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LPE Editors
This week at the blog… …we began a symposium on the deep problems with the criminal legal system. On Monday, Tariq El-Gabalawy introduced the symposium. On Tuesday, Marcelo López and Alejandra Gutiérrez discussed the intergenerational impacts of incarceration on their own families and communities and how that has guided their thinking through law school and…
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Law & Political Economy: Democracy Beyond Neoliberalism
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LPE Editors
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…
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…
A Nightmare of Work and Care
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Lynn Lu
At least since welfare reform, then, we have coexisted with a particularly monstrous work-life imbalance for low-income parents in which economic security, much less economic mobility for their children, remains forever out of reach. Americans have learned to live with punitive workfare as their only form of safety net assistance (or without it, as is the case for too many poor people ineligible even for subsistence benefits). Far from removing the crisis in care and work from polarized public debate, however, the pandemic has shown all too clearly that workfare ideology will not remain confined to the ever-shrinking welfare context, but has a life of its own.
Introducing Guest Editors Angela Harris and Noah Zatz
Here at the Blog we’re trying out a new idea: inviting a rotating pair of “Guest Editors” to help steer our editorial process. Guest Editors will join our editorial board (scroll down) for six months at a time. Our first Guest Editors are Angela Harris, Distinguished Professor of Law at UC Davis, and Noah Zatz, Professor of Law at UCLA. In this post they introduce their goals.
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Origins of the Blog
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LPE Editors
The blog grew out of a group convened by Amy Kapczynski as a seminar in Law and Political Economy at Yale Law School in Spring 2017. The course emerged from a meeting with students who wanted a clearer view of the critiques needed to respond to the 2016 election, economic inequality, and the ascendance of neoliberalism. They…