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September 26, 2025 at 9:40 PM
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Our friends at the @jlpe.bsky.social have dropped a hot new issue, featuring articles on predistributive democracy, the “perversity thesis,” Australian central bank independence, and antitrust standards for labor market conduct.

Read it here: escholarship.org/uc/lawandpol...
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September 19, 2025 at 2:59 PM
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Earlier this week, we concluded our symposium on Sandeep Vaheesan's new book *Democracy in Power: A History of Electrification in the United States.*

ICYMI, here's a brief run-down of the five excellent posts in the series! 🧵
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July 16, 2025 at 5:09 PM
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Can't wait til February to hang with LPE folks?

Well, if you're in NYC, join us tonight (Friday, June 13) for LPE NYC's first summer happy in Brooklyn at DSK (5-730p). Come meet other lawyers, organizers, professors, & students interested in transforming the political economy of NYC!
LPE NYC logo, Summer Happy Hour, June 13 5-7:30pm, DSK (710 Fulton St) [cheersing beer mugs]
June 13, 2025 at 7:16 PM
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LPE Blog vs. NYT, Round 1, FIGHT:

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From the NYT: "Before the Trump presidency, there was broad consensus that the 14th Amendment established birthright citizenship for children born in the United States." From the LPE Blog: Indeed, the order is so transparently lawless that to analyze its constitutionality at all is to risk conveying the impression of a serious legal debate. So, for the record: there is none. Trump may as have well signed an executive order that grants Texas 40 Senators. When the Supreme Court eventually weighs in on the order, we will not learn whether it is constitutional. We will learn whether the Supreme Court is prepared to follow the Constitution.
May 14, 2025 at 11:06 PM
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At @pppaction.bsky.social, @jennyhunter.bsky.social has a new report laying out how the Supreme Court helped Trump win and what we can do about it.

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Graphic listing 8 ways the Supreme Court Helped Trump Win: (1) Shielded Trump from prosecution; (2) Blocked states from removing Trump from the ballet; (3) Allowed billionaires and oligarchs to buy the presidency; (4) Gutted voting rights act and permitted voter suppression, (5) greenlit political and racial gerrymandering; (6) blocked or limited Biden's signature policy accomplishments; (7) Attached workers' ability to form strong unions; (8) limited American's imagination as to what kind of world is possible.
February 21, 2025 at 3:43 PM
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A group of leading worker, tech policy, and antimonopoly groups released a major report calling on states to prohibit surveillance wages and prices. Feat. LPE Stalwarts @veenadubal.bsky.social & Zephyr Teachout.

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text reading: "Prohibiting Surveillance Prices and Wages."
February 21, 2025 at 3:43 PM
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Yes! It's a textbook case of the kind of response that @ajbauer.bsky.social recently warned about. Unfortunately, the self-described policy wonks can't help themselves!

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Similarly, rather than studying the world as it is in an empirical sense, identifying problems, and proposing solutions, Trumpism starts with “solutions” consistent with its racist and xenophobic worldview—extrapolated from slogans like “Make America Great Again,” “Build the Wall,” “Drain the Swamp”—and then goes in search of “real” problems to justify their implementation. The press and Democratic Party have, unfortunately, gamely played along—denouncing Trumpism’s false statements of fact but largely conceding the underlying “problems” as worthy policy debates. For example, outlets like the Atlantic and New York Times insist on pretending that gender nonconformity among children is a serious “problem” worthy of national political debate when less than 0.1 percent of U.S. minors take gender-affirming medication. The same goes for immigration. Mainstream newspapers and cable outlets have largely narrated as a “crisis” the Biden administration’s mismanagement of a dysfunctional asylum process—dysfunction, worth noting, that was deliberately sown by Republican governors to justify their racist anti-migrant policies. This crisis framing has been readily adopted by “Blue State” Democrats like New York City mayor Eric Adams and New York governor Kathy Hochul to obfuscate their own mismanagement of the issue.
January 27, 2025 at 3:17 PM
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Perhaps we should have titled this post: "Ezra Klein, please stop unwittingly carrying water for the Trump Administration"

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Similarly, rather than studying the world as it is in an empirical sense, identifying problems, and proposing solutions, Trumpism starts with “solutions” consistent with its racist and xenophobic worldview—extrapolated from slogans like “Make America Great Again,” “Build the Wall,” “Drain the Swamp”—and then goes in search of “real” problems to justify their implementation. The press and Democratic Party have, unfortunately, gamely played along—denouncing Trumpism’s false statements of fact but largely conceding the underlying “problems” as worthy policy debates. For example, outlets like the Atlantic and New York Times insist on pretending that gender nonconformity among children is a serious “problem” worthy of national political debate when less than 0.1 percent of U.S. minors take gender-affirming medication. The same goes for immigration. Mainstream newspapers and cable outlets have largely narrated as a “crisis” the Biden administration’s mismanagement of a dysfunctional asylum process—dysfunction, worth noting, that was deliberately sown by Republican governors to justify their racist anti-migrant policies. This crisis framing has been readily adopted by “Blue State” Democrats like New York City mayor Eric Adams and New York governor Kathy Hochul to obfuscate their own mismanagement of the issue.
January 27, 2025 at 3:10 PM
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Are landlords petty tyrants??? Don't sleep on today's post, which provides a useful overview (linking to tons of research) of the various powers and prerogatives that landlords possess: everything the power to influence policy to the power to insert themselves in their tenant’s personal lives.
Beyond these intrusions into tenants’ personal lives, landlords’ duty to maintain and repair the units in which tenants live, which is often seen as a benefit of renting, generally creates conditions of dependence. The duty for maintenance is chronically ill-enforced. Consequently, tenants are often stuck dealing with conditions of neglect and disrepair with little means for redress. Tenants end up with little control over the conditions of their living space, subject to hazardous conditions at home, and at the mercy of delinquent owners.
December 10, 2024 at 8:32 PM
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LPE Starter Pack 1: go.bsky.app/P2sMKhK
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November 17, 2024 at 8:52 PM
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We know where you can find an algorithm
October 29, 2024 at 6:35 PM
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Please help spread the word: we're putting together an LPE scholarship roundup from this past submission cycle.

Send (self!) nominations to managingeditor@lpeblog.org with a short description of the piece, where it will be forthcoming, and if available, a link to a draft!
October 26, 2024 at 8:23 PM
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Appropriate response would just be to respond with:
September 4, 2024 at 10:13 PM
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Don't miss today's post: come for the wry humor, stay for the analysis of how law & economics infected our intellectual and governing institutions, and delight in the references to @epopppp.bsky.social's incredible work.
September 4, 2024 at 7:46 PM
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The LPE Blog is once again looking to highlight the hottest forthcoming LPE and LPE-adjacent work from this past submission cycle.

If you or a scholar whose work you love have had an article accepted this submission season, please send nominations to managingeditor@lpeblog.org!
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March 15, 2024 at 3:26 PM
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Do you ever wake up and think: if only there were a quick, easy way to browse all 64 symposia published on the LPE Blog???

Well, my friend, you're in luck: our brand new page displays all of our series, from chimpan-a to chimpan-z.

Check it out!

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A list of six symposia from our new symposia page.
March 13, 2024 at 2:14 PM