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LPE Blog

@LPEblog

A blog that explores the co-constitution of law and political economy. Part of @lpe_project. Subscribe to our newsletter: lpeproject.org/subscribe/

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LPE Blog
@LPEblog
Nov 15, 2024
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Jan 23, 2025
Can't believe Lina Khan wasted four years banning junk fees, blocking harmful mergers, and reducing the price of inhalers when she could have been fighting against woke.
Andrew Ferguson
@AFergusonFTC
Jan 23, 2025
DEI is a scourge on our institutions. President Trump promised the American people that he would end it. He has done so in three amazing executive orders. Under my leadership, the FTC is doing its part to end the DEI plague. We are done with DEI at the FTC. No DEI office, no DEI
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LPE Blog
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Apr 14, 2023
Conservatives in 2021: $600 weekly UI will entirely change the behavior of millions of workers. Conservatives in 2023: How dare you suggest that hundreds of thousands of dollars in gifts could influence a single belief of Clarence Thomas.
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LPE Blog
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Dec 10, 2024
"landlords access can bleed into surveillance... where they track tenants’ daily activities, their social connections, and their utility usage. Unsurprisingly, such privileged access frequently facilitates harassment of tenants."
New York Post
@nypost
Dec 10, 2024
Luigi Mangione’s back pain was so intense that he couldn’t be ‘physically intimate’ with anyone, former landlord says trib.al/U2hKd7S
Rent Strikes as a Righteous Form of Resistance
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LPE Blog
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Oct 12, 2022
One key failing of the ADA is its reliance on individual enforcement, rather than universal design. As a result, it does little to address mass-produced inaccessibility. To see how even victories under the ADA result in defeat, consider the case of Yasmin Reyazuddin. 1/
LPE Blog
@LPEblog
Sep 2, 2024
Today, Melinda Cooper kicks off a fresh year at the blog by explaining how two rival schools of neoliberal thought — Virginia school public choice and supply side economics — converged on the imperative to rein in redistributive uses of public spending.
The Rise of Neoliberal Public Finance
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LPE Blog
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Aug 20, 2024
Are you a law student interested in how law facilitates inequality and domination, and how we might bring about a genuinely egalitarian democracy? Law & Political Economy might be for you! The following 🧵 offers some helpful resources for those new to this burgeoning movement.
GIF
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LPE Blog
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Jan 23, 2025
Replying to @garditmolp
Ferguson has, so far, removed five requests for public comment from consideration -- including comment on “surveillance pricing,” "predatory pricing" and "Mergers and Acquisitions." ftc.gov/system/files/f…
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LPE Blog
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Sep 2, 2024
As @RaulACarrillo has warned, this is a disaster waiting to happen: "Every day, 'fintech' companies, data brokers, and banks combine forces to create new forms of 'shadow money' which avoid substantive banking law and lack critical consumer protections."
Luke Goldstein
@lukewgoldstein
Sep 2, 2024
Over a third of GenZ and Millenials are using "peer to peer" fintech, digital banks -- PayPal, Venmo, Cash app, Zelle etc. -- as their primary checking account provider. That's nearly a trillion dollars in total of completely uninsured deposits.
Six Reactions to the Silicon Valley Bank Debacle
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LPE Blog
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Sep 9, 2024
How did Virginia School neoliberals turn the tax-collecting state on its head? How complete was their victory? And are they still winning? Today, Quinn Slobodian (@zeithistoriker) continues our symposium on Melinda Cooper's *Counterrevolution.*
Turning the Fiscal State on its Head
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LPE Blog
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Jul 13, 2023
"most of the outstanding balances won’t ever be repaid. In the meantime... student debtors delay or forgo marriage and family formation, homeownership, retirement and their children’s education: a profound failure of social reproduction." -@Econ_Marshall
nytimes.com
Opinion | America’s Student Loans Were Never Going to Be Repaid (Published 2023)
During the pandemic, the U.S. paused regular payments for student loans. But repayment was dwindling for at least a decade before that.
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LPE Blog
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Jun 24, 2024
Today, @ntinatzouvala 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.
Genocide and Political Economy: Reconstructing the Relationship
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Mar 23, 2022
Yesterday, we concluded our symposium on the hottest topic in macroeconomics: INFLATION! We laughed, we cried, we quoted Milton Friedman. Here were some of the highlights 🧵👇
LPE Blog
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May 4, 2020
Congratulations to @KeeangaYamahtta's Race for Profit named a Pulitzer finalist! Our symposium from waaaay back in January on the book:
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How Banks and the Real Estate Industry Undermined Black Homeownership
This post is part of our Race for Profit symposium. Read all posts here. In Houston’s upscale Galleria-Uptown neighborhood, the mall known simply as “TheGalleria” is, according to its website,...