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Lenore Palladino
@lenorepalladino.bsky.social
economist, lawyer, organizer, mamma

Associate Professor of Economics & Public Policy, UMass Amherst

https://www.lenorepalladino.com

my book: Good Company: Economic Policy after Shareholder Primacy, out 12/5/24

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Credit where due, fucking with air travel was genius MAGA move. It impacts upper & middle class and, more importantly, a powerful business interest. Starving millions of poor people doesn't piss off Wall St.
November 10, 2025 at 4:48 AM
"Even Pope Leo XIV weighed in, saying in an interview with Crux, a Catholic news website, that Mr. Musk’s compensation was a symptom of the growing disparity between working people and the wealthy. The median Tesla worker earned around $57,000 in 2024, according to a company securities filing."
November 6, 2025 at 10:10 PM
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What use is 'polycrisis' to an analysis of capitalism?

What would David Harvey have to say to polycrisis liberals who are disoriented?
Brilliant essay by @cacrisalves.bsky.social offering an analysis of the foundations of economic life & madness of economic reason
www.versobooks.com/blogs/news/p...
Polycrisis, or the 'Madness of Economic Reason'
There could hardly be a more urgent moment to revisit David Harvey’s (2017) Marx, Capital and the Madness of Economic Reason. The economic rationality that has dominated the twenty-first century is no...
www.versobooks.com
November 6, 2025 at 9:57 PM
it may just be the corporate legal academy that has the hardest time with the myth that shareholders are investors

also I prefer to be framed as 'pro-worker' 🤣
November 6, 2025 at 4:08 PM
highly recommend Destin Jenkins' excellent book The Bonds of Inequality for anyone looking to learn & really understand the way municipal finance deeply constrains cities

www.destinjenkins.com/the-bonds-of...
The Bonds of Inequality — Destin Jenkins
www.destinjenkins.com
November 5, 2025 at 11:36 PM