Roseanna Sommers
@rosesomm.bsky.social
Social psychologist and assistant professor at the University of Michigan Law School. I research consent and other topics at the intersection of psychology & law. Views my own.
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So glad Gov. Whitmer is highlighting the effect Medicaid cuts will have not only on the millions of people who lose their health care, but also on *entire regional economies* michiganadvance.com/2025/07/02/w...
July 3, 2025 at 2:00 PM
So glad Gov. Whitmer is highlighting the effect Medicaid cuts will have not only on the millions of people who lose their health care, but also on *entire regional economies* michiganadvance.com/2025/07/02/w...
🚨🚨 Medicaid contributes more to Houston's local economy than the CHEMICAL INDUSTRY. It contributes almost 2x as much to LA as the MOVIE INDUSTRY. We are talking about DECIMATING local economies when we talk about cutting Medicaid 🚨🚨
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Put another way, Medicaid contributes roughly as much to Detroit's economy than car manufacturing, more to Houston than the chemical industry, almost twice as much to Los Angeles as motion picture production--these are big numbers!
July 3, 2025 at 1:41 PM
🚨🚨 Medicaid contributes more to Houston's local economy than the CHEMICAL INDUSTRY. It contributes almost 2x as much to LA as the MOVIE INDUSTRY. We are talking about DECIMATING local economies when we talk about cutting Medicaid 🚨🚨
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In Kentucky's 5th congressional district, recently profiled by Arlie Hochschild for @nytimes.com, Medicaid makes up a quarter of the entire economic base. The SNAP and Medicaid cuts would be like losing one-third of all traded private sector industries
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Opinion | My Journey Deep in the Heart of Trump Country
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June 25, 2025 at 6:13 PM
In Kentucky's 5th congressional district, recently profiled by Arlie Hochschild for @nytimes.com, Medicaid makes up a quarter of the entire economic base. The SNAP and Medicaid cuts would be like losing one-third of all traded private sector industries
www.nytimes.com/2025/06/09/o...
www.nytimes.com/2025/06/09/o...
Reposted by Roseanna Sommers
Thinking hard about augmented wealth also illuminates a major puzzle in wealth inequality research. As @mjantti.bsky.social @esiermin.bsky.social @fabianpfeffer.bsky.social @norawaitkus.bsky.social (+ more) have shown, there's minimal correlation across countries between wealth and income inequality
April 24, 2025 at 6:29 PM
Thinking hard about augmented wealth also illuminates a major puzzle in wealth inequality research. As @mjantti.bsky.social @esiermin.bsky.social @fabianpfeffer.bsky.social @norawaitkus.bsky.social (+ more) have shown, there's minimal correlation across countries between wealth and income inequality
Come for the analysis of tort classics like Palsgraf, stay for the fresh takes on contemporary issues like microaggressions and incels www.hup.harvard.edu/books/978067...
Wrongs and Rights Come Apart — Harvard University Press
A bold challenge to a central assumption in modern moral and legal thinking, showing that wrongs and rights are not flip sides of the same coin but instead represent fundamentally distinct moral pheno...
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March 14, 2025 at 5:54 PM
Come for the analysis of tort classics like Palsgraf, stay for the fresh takes on contemporary issues like microaggressions and incels www.hup.harvard.edu/books/978067...
Congratulations!!!!
March 6, 2025 at 5:19 PM
Congratulations!!!!
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It's our view that the field of contracts has been captured by an ironic revanchism -- looking toward an imagined past where consent was real and people read.
Better to take the world as it is and is becoming, with some lay participants actively navigating (adhesive) contractual relationships.
Better to take the world as it is and is becoming, with some lay participants actively navigating (adhesive) contractual relationships.
December 12, 2024 at 1:35 AM
It's our view that the field of contracts has been captured by an ironic revanchism -- looking toward an imagined past where consent was real and people read.
Better to take the world as it is and is becoming, with some lay participants actively navigating (adhesive) contractual relationships.
Better to take the world as it is and is becoming, with some lay participants actively navigating (adhesive) contractual relationships.
Reposted by Roseanna Sommers
Following lots of recent research, we show that generally, being in lots of formal contracts online has made younger people more formal about contracting -- more up for thin notions of assent, and gamified understandings of obligation.
December 12, 2024 at 1:32 AM
Following lots of recent research, we show that generally, being in lots of formal contracts online has made younger people more formal about contracting -- more up for thin notions of assent, and gamified understandings of obligation.