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A blog that explores the co-constitution of law and political economy. Part of the LPE Project. Subscribe to our newsletter: lpeproject.org/subscribe/
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Roosevelt Institute
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"[N]early everyone, wealthy or not, is now exposed to these less well-regulated private markets."
In @lpeblog.bsky.social, @lenorepalladino.bsky.social outlines the real risks that the growth of private financial markets poses to shareholders as well as our economy:
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lenorepalladino
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new from me up at @lpeblog.bsky.social: private markets are eating the world
I don't think enough economists understand the imp institutional differences between 'public' and 'private' markets
also private credit funds terrify me
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LPE Blog
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Do you know that you're probably invested in private financial markets? No. But do you know what private financial markets are? No. But are these markets at least subject to regulatory or public scrutiny? Also no. Read Lenore Palladino 👇
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James Brandt
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"in recent decades the financial assets of ordinary people have been bundled into retirement funds that are considered 'sophisticated investors' under the law — so nearly everyone, wealthy or not, is now exposed to these less well-regulated private markets."
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LPE Blog
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Today, Lenore Palladino explains how the explosive growth of private financial markets – which have recently eclipsed public markets – has undermined the protections afforded by existing securities laws and introduced new systemic risks into our financial system.
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LPE Blog
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Today, @lsepper.bsky.social and Lindsay Wiley conclude our series on the LPE of Insurance, arguing that recent religious challenges to the Affordable Care Act should be understood as a major new vector in the campaign against social insurance in the United States.
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Lindsay Wiley
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New from me & @lsepper.bsky.social in @lpeblog.bsky.social!
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Liz Sepper
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Religious exemptions to the ACA get treated as pretty marginal. @lindsaywiley.bsky.social and I reframe religious liberty challenges to the ACA as central to the campaign against social insurance in the US. They aren't built on a libertarian ethos but on a powerful message of take care of your own
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James Brandt
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"Initial challenges to the ACA advocated for an individualistic 'you’re on your own' approach to health care financing. But the religious challengers do not reject collective obligations... They assert a right to 'take care of your own as you see fit' within traditional, role-based hierarchies."
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LPE Blog
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Today, @lsepper.bsky.social and Lindsay Wiley conclude our series on the LPE of Insurance, arguing that recent religious challenges to the Affordable Care Act should be understood as a major new vector in the campaign against social insurance in the United States.
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Reconstructed exPat
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ICYMI: "Insurance costs are becoming such a large part of the budgets of affordable housing developers and managers that it’s forcing them to reconsider building new projects." - Moira Birss
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LPE Blog
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Today, Ivana Isailović argues that EU's current approach to abortion access - regulating it through economic and human rights frameworks - risks privatizing and depoliticizing the issue.
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isaac
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Good stuff from @moira.bsky.social.
"Put another way: many places are already unlivable, and only becoming more so because of accelerating climate change; how do we de-risk for households, rather than for insurance companies?"
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Moira Birss
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I'm thrilled to share my new LPE blog on insurance, where on take on the prevailing media & policy narrative that the answer to the US's home insurance crisis is protecting insurance companies. Instead, we must focus on ensuring housing safety & affordability.
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LPE Blog
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Today, Moira Birss continues our series on the LPE of Insurance, arguing that policy responses to the current home insurance crisis should focus on protecting households, not insurance companies.
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Nicholas Wallace
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Absolutely wild that the court accuses the dissent of "fearmongering" with "extreme hypotheticals" when the actual basis for the indictment is a coup attempt that led to an attack on the capitol
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LPE Blog
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Today, @jbentonheath.bsky.social explains how popular boycott movements - such as the global anti-apartheid movement and the contemporary BDS movement - may once again provide inspiration for alternative ways to organize the global political economy.
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LPE Blog
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Today, James Kilgore, Emmett Sanders, and Kate Weisburd debunk four myths that are often used to support the idea that electronic monitoring is better than incarceration.
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LPE Blog
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Today, @chloethurston.bsky.social and Emily Zackin explain what America's long history of organizing voters around debt relief can teach us about our present political moment.
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Prof. Kevin J. Kircher
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I learned at an engineering conference recently that one crypto mine in TX, 100s of MW, makes more money off ERCOT demand response markets than it does off crypto repeat: TX ratepayers pay them more to sometimes stop mining than they make by actual mining just bananas misuse of power markets 🔌💡
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LPE Blog
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Today, Ntina Tzouvala argues that South Africa’s genocide case against Israel at the ICJ should be seen as an effort to make a political-economic understanding of genocide legible within the restrictive framework of the Genocide Convention.
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James Brandt
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"The campaign, in short, made the case that it was on the side of legality. To make this case credible, it was essential to have lawyers as active conspirators willing to produce facially legitimate legal work product—briefs, opinions, and forms—that asserted illegitimate challenges."
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LPE Blog
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Today, Scott Cummings argues that lawyers play a central and often overlooked role in democratic backsliding, and points to regulatory and educational changes that could help build professional resilience in this dangerous political time.
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LPE Blog
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Today, Tal Rothstein explains why the students who run the law reviews should organize - and how doing so could transform the landscape of legal publication.
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James Brandt
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Public schools are the "real powerhouses of the American higher education system, partially because of the political forces that have pushed them to eclipse elite private institutions in size – public R1s enroll 2.5 million undergraduates, while private R1s enroll just 330,000."
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LPE Blog
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Today, Ethan Ris looks back at a failed crusade to make hyper-elite universities the arbiters of American economy and society, and explains how these institutions ultimately became a footnote in the larger story of higher education.
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isaac
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So many great pieces of analysis in here. I had the great joy to meet Zac a few months ago and they are so delightful.
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Eric Brandom
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Sarena Martinez at @lpeblog.bsky.social lpeproject.org/blog/facing-...
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LPE Blog
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William Boyd on our broken system of toxics regulation, and Zac Taylor on the limits of property insurance in Florida. Plus, a new paper by Sanjukta Paul on labor law, an interview with Mehrsa Baradaran about her new book, a policy report by Suzanne Kahn on investing in the care economy, and more!
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LPE Blog
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Today, Zac Taylor explains how Florida facilitates the entry of global capital into its private insurance system — an approach that stabilizes the market in the short-term, while increasing the amount of risk in the system in the long-run.
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LPE Blog
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Today, William Boyd explains how formal, quantitative approaches to risk in environmental regulation have been unable to generate even the most basic safety information - leaving us awash in a world full of toxic chemicals.
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Rick Weinmeyer
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Chicago people interested in @lpeblog.bsky.social: Join me Thurs., June 20th (5-7 PM) for some fun at Pilot Project Brewery, where we’ll talk about a possible Chicagoland LPE.
This is one step among many, and we'll organize another casual get together in the fall. DM or email me with questions!
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LPE Blog
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The week in review: Kate Andrias on labor’s constitutional vision, Kate Yoon on the LPE of insurance, and Anthony O’Rourke, Guyora Binder, and Rick Su on municipal insurers as an obstacle to police reform.
Plus, some great LPE reads and listens from around the web.
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LPE Blog
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Police abolitionists envision a political future fundamentally different from the present. Insurers, however, require predictable risk in order to profitably price insurance products. A must-read post by Anthony O'Rourke, Guyora Binder, and Rick Su on obstacles to the democratic control of police.
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LPE Blog
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Today, Kate Yoon introduces *Private Insurance, Public Power*: a symposium on the law and political economy of insurance.
Look forward to posts from Anthony O'Rourke, Greta Krippner, Zac Taylor, and Sarena Martinez!
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Just Money
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New contribution to our roundtable on central banking and the climate crisis ! A piece from Sarah Bloom Raskin dissecting the intersection between climate change and the Federal reserve mandate
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LPE Blog
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"Critically, labor’s constitutional vision contrasts not only with business’s constitution being embraced by the right-wing Supreme Court but also with the New Deal constitutional settlement." Today, Kate Andrias describes a renewed constitutional clash between labor and business.
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LPE Blog
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Today, Davarian Baldwin examines how universities use their tax-exempt status to exert undue power over the political economy of the communities in which they are embedded.
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LPE Blog
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Today, @jeffgordon.bsky.social wades into "derisking v. discipline" debate, explaining how subsidies - such as those in the IRA and CHIPS Act - can tilt the economic landscape toward public ends.
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Liz Sepper
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I could have written this from UT. What has been disruptive to campus is police presence, with takeovers of building PA systems blaring "disperse," and the breathless and misleading discourse of unfounded fear.
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Evan Bernick, a finite mode with a floof
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Everything that Paul Butler writes is drop-everything-and-read material, and this is no exception. balkin.blogspot.com/2024/05/the-...
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LPE Blog
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The week in review: Jessica Whyte on the history of “economic peace” in Israel/Palestine, and a double dose of David Pozen: on the presidentialization of university governance, and on Aziz Rana's *The Constitutional Bind.* Plus, the hottest LPE content from around the web.
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LPE Blog
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Today, David Pozen continues our symposium on Aziz Rana's *The Constitutional Bind,* by questioning whether Americans' tendency to idolize the constitution is really the cause of our constitutional stagnation.
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James Brandt
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"As the Columbia administration’s actions over the past six months became increasingly contentious, and increasingly detached from ideals of academic freedom, the autocratic character of our governance model came to the fore."
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LPE Blog
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Today, we share David Pozen's recent thoughts about the increasing power of university presidents, and the need to develop a more democratic model of internal governance.
A must-read to understand what is unfolding on campuses across the country.
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LPE Blog
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Today, students involved with the protests at Columbia, CUNY, Yale, and NYU explain the demands behind the encampments and share their perspectives on what has unfolded over past two weeks.
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LPE Blog
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Week in review: @maggieblackhawk.bsky.social on *The Constitutional Bind*, Vincent Bevins on a decade of failed protests, and Sandeep Vaheesan & Jonathan Harris on the FTC’s final rule banning non-compete clauses.
Plus, the best new writing from around the web.
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James Brandt
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The rule is "the result of 26,000 public comments.... more than 25,000 of these comments supported the ban, and many described how non-compete clauses had kept them stuck in abusive jobs or prevented them from pursuing better opportunities."
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LPE Blog
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Today, Sandeep Vaheesan and Jonathan Harris explain why the FTC's comprehensive ban on non-compete clauses promises to be so effective, and discuss the coming legal challenges it will face.
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LPE Blog
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To be fair, 130 pages are notes!
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