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James Brandt@jamesbrandt.bsky.social |
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Managing editor @lpeblog.bsky.social. Freelance academic editor.
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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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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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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, 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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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James Brandt
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"Discipline can come in many forms, some of which are indifferent to private profitability, but others of which mold the landscape of profitability into a disciplinary force itself."
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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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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, 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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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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Evan Bernick, a finite mode with a floof
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@maggieblackhawk.bsky.social on Aziz Rana's new book and the dangers of erasing anti-colonial constitutionalism. On Garrison, Douglass, and American Colonialism - LPE Project: lpeproject.org/blog/on-garr....
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Today, Kate Yoon interviews Vincent Bevins about his recent book *If We Burn* and what we can learn from the failed protests of the previous decade.
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James Brandt
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"The spirit of Douglass may continue to haunt The Constitutional Bind. There are, as Douglass and his 'radical constitutionalists' recognized, significant costs to the Garrisonian approach, costs which loom particularly large in the context of American colonialism."
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LPE Blog
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Today, Uʻilani Tanigawa Lum and Kaulu Luʻuwai explain why the devastating Maui wildfires of August 2023 should not be understood as an inevitable natural disaster, but rather as a predictable byproduct of nineteenth century plantation capitalism.
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Evan Bernick, a finite mode with a floof
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1. We don't deserve @lpeblog.bsky.social
2. Willie Forbath on Aziz Rana on constitutionalism, self-recommending lpeproject.org/blog/constit...
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Today, Willy Forbath continues our symposium on *The Constitutional Bind,* arguing that key left figures and movements have always made canny use of redemptive constitutional narratives and arguments. Rejecting that tradition leaves far too much on the table.
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Given the manifest flaws of the U.S. Constitution, how did Americans come to idolize this document? And how might we push beyond this confined vision? Today, Aziz Rana kicks off a symposium on his new book, *The Constitutional Bind.*
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LPE Blog
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Today, Premal Dharia concludes our symposium on @jocelynsimonson.bsky.social's *Radical Acts of Justice,* by discussing a crisis of purpose in public defense - whose workers must contend with the reality that a better world may obviate the need for their labor.
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LPE Blog
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Today, our spring scouting report on some of the hottest LPE and LPE-adjacent articles. Congrats to all the authors on such wonderful placements!
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James Brandt
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One Weird Trick to reduce medical debt: make hospitals follow the law.* *The real solution is a single-payer system, free at the point of care, in which all patients are equally worthy and equally remunerative.
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Today, Mila Versteeg, Kevin Cope, and Gaurav Mukherjee argue that the 9th Circuit has created perhaps the first true federal social right in American constitutional history: an effective license for homeless individuals to sleep on public lands.
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Today, @meredithmeredith.bsky.social uses the divide over recent TikTok legislation to reflect on a more fundamental question: how should we think about regulating social media platforms at a time of rising illiberalism in the United States?
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Today, the Blog asked six tech and regulatory experts - Ganesh Sitaraman, Sanjay Jolly, Zephyr Teachout, Nikolas Guggenberger, Anupam Chander, and Elettra Bietti - to share their initial reactions to the pending TikTok legislation.
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James Brandt
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"In a way, this is the legal version of the increasingly well-accepted idea that homelessness is a housing problem: our system of property, as important as it is, is creating homelessness, and so our system of property is what needs to solve it."
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Week in review: Sara Rankin on the most consequential homeless rights case in decades, @econmarshall.bsky.social on the material basis for the culture war over higher ed, and
@mwpalen.bsky.social on the left-wing free trade tradition.
Plus, so many upcoming events!
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Today, in a moment of resurgent economic nationalism, @mwpalen.bsky.social looks back at a left-wing tradition that viewed free trade as essential for fostering democracy, prosperity, and a peaceful interdependent world order.
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Gavin Schmidt
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I have a commentary in Nature on our disquieting inability to work out why 2023 was so warm. www.nature.com/articles/d41...
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Marshall Steinbaum
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From my new piece on higher education & social reproduction in @lpeblog.bsky.social
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Today, @econmarshall.bsky.social identifies the hierarchical social theory that underlies the current hollowing out of public universities.
What we need instead, he argues, are homogeneous institutions with heterogeneous student bodies.
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Today, Sara Rankin explains what is and is not at stake in next month's SCOTUS case about punishing homelessness, and describes how cities have become more creative in their efforts to remove the suffering of unsheltered people from view.
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James Brandt
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