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A blog that explores the co-constitution of law and political economy. Part of @lpe_project. Subscribe to our newsletter: https://t.co/w2dhcnKrUy
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"In our current moment, it is not a crisis of capitalism that challenges democracy, but its triumph." https://t.co/TqnWdTqBjW
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In the current moment, it is not a crisis of capitalism that challenges democracy, but its triumph. For this reason, our political-economic situation is quite different from that of Weimar Germany…
Over the past 5 years the wealth held by the top 0.1% has nearly doubled from $12 trillion to over $23 trillion.
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Today, Veryl Pow and Mohini Mookim describe their approach to prefigurative lawyering. By striving to embody the values we wish to see in a liberated future, they argue, we can build a new world in the carcass of the old. https://t.co/nolD5jGWS6
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As the far right consolidates power at the federal level, many progressive lawyers are turning to state policy or crafting rebuilding plans for after the storm. Yet this moment also offers a chance...
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🚨 Today, Common Wealth launches the Green Planning Commission. A major new initiative to tackle the twin crises of our era: climate breakdown & the affordability crisis. To meet these challenges, we need a new era of democratic planning. 🧵 Here’s why.
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Today, Jerry Kang and @NoahZatz argue that even as the Trump administration seeks to dismantle DEI in the name of “merit,” the very law it distorts still harbors possibilities for resistance. https://t.co/LezXYdAjIh
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Even as the Trump administration seeks to dismantle DEI in the name of “merit,” the law it distorts still harbors possibilities for resistance. Title VII prohibits retaliation against employees who…
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"The Administration’s extraordinary abuses of power have triggered widespread cowardice dressed up as pragmatic survival... if fear is the primal driver, we must activate countervailing fears wherever we can, to raise the expected costs of anticipatory capitulation."
Today, Jerry Kang and @NoahZatz argue that even as the Trump administration seeks to dismantle DEI in the name of “merit,” the very law it distorts still harbors possibilities for resistance. https://t.co/LezXYdAjIh
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Today, Jerry Kang and @NoahZatz argue that even as the Trump administration seeks to dismantle DEI in the name of “merit,” the very law it distorts still harbors possibilities for resistance. https://t.co/LezXYdAjIh
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Even as the Trump administration seeks to dismantle DEI in the name of “merit,” the law it distorts still harbors possibilities for resistance. Title VII prohibits retaliation against employees who…
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Today, James Goodwin explains how the Trump Administration’s use of individualized waivers and exemptions marks a new frontier in presidential control of the administrative state — turning deregulation into a tool for distributing political favors. https://t.co/LgIwwFoAJH
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The Trump Administration's use of individualized, firm-level waivers and exemptions marks a new frontier in presidential control of the administrative state. This strategy allows the administration...
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"conservatives are encountering a problem that has long been well understood by those on the Left: The rulemaking process is incredibly slow... OIRA 2.0 offers conservatives a convenient pathway for achieving almost immediately the equivalent of a full regulatory repeal."
Today, James Goodwin explains how the Trump Administration’s use of individualized waivers and exemptions marks a new frontier in presidential control of the administrative state — turning deregulation into a tool for distributing political favors. https://t.co/LgIwwFoAJH
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Today, James Goodwin explains how the Trump Administration’s use of individualized waivers and exemptions marks a new frontier in presidential control of the administrative state — turning deregulation into a tool for distributing political favors. https://t.co/LgIwwFoAJH
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The Trump Administration's use of individualized, firm-level waivers and exemptions marks a new frontier in presidential control of the administrative state. This strategy allows the administration...
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Week in review: James Tierney on Intel and American State Capitalism; David Abraham on Capitalism, Democracy, and Weimar Germany; and Rana Jaleel and Risa Lieberwitz on the weaponization of Title VI. Plus, as always, the best of LPE from around the web! https://t.co/uUjPRxyubO
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James Tierney on Intel and American State Capitalism, David Abraham on Capitalism, Democracy, and Weimar Germany, and Rana Jaleel and Risa Lieberwitz on the weaponization of Title VI. Plus…
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Week in review: James Tierney on Intel and American State Capitalism; David Abraham on Capitalism, Democracy, and Weimar Germany; and Rana Jaleel and Risa Lieberwitz on the weaponization of Title VI. Plus, as always, the best of LPE from around the web! https://t.co/uUjPRxyubO
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James Tierney on Intel and American State Capitalism, David Abraham on Capitalism, Democracy, and Weimar Germany, and Rana Jaleel and Risa Lieberwitz on the weaponization of Title VI. Plus…
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Today, Rana Jaleel & Risa Lieberwitz of the @AAUP explain how the Trump administration has used Title VI to pressure universities to undermine free speech and entrench inequality, and how universities have largely crumbled in the face of this pressure (link in next tweet).
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Today, David Abraham examines how various fractions of capital—both in our time and during Weimar Germany—chose to abandon democracy in favor of an uncertain future (link in next tweet).
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Today, Rana Jaleel & Risa Lieberwitz of the @AAUP explain how the Trump administration has used Title VI to pressure universities to undermine free speech and entrench inequality, and how universities have largely crumbled in the face of this pressure (link in next tweet).
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The US investment in Intel is "public capital without accountability. The result is not sovereign wealth but corporate capture—an arrangement that entrenches incumbent power while eroding the state’s ability to direct economic development."
Today, @JamesFTierney argues that the government's recent $8.9 billion equity investment in Intel represents a new model of American state capitalism: one that entrenches corporate power while foreclosing more democratic and effective alternatives. https://t.co/NR2Fbbradw
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Today, @JamesFTierney argues that the government's recent $8.9 billion equity investment in Intel represents a new model of American state capitalism: one that entrenches corporate power while foreclosing more democratic and effective alternatives. https://t.co/NR2Fbbradw
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While some have cast the U.S. government’s $8.9 billion equity stake in Intel as the first step on the road to socialism, upon closer examination it looks more like a distinctive form of American…
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Today, @JamesFTierney argues that the government's recent $8.9 billion equity investment in Intel represents a new model of American state capitalism: one that entrenches corporate power while foreclosing more democratic and effective alternatives. https://t.co/NR2Fbbradw
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While some have cast the U.S. government’s $8.9 billion equity stake in Intel as the first step on the road to socialism, upon closer examination it looks more like a distinctive form of American…
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The week in review: @Econ_Marshall on anti-monopolism as an ideology of the left, and Amna Akbar, Sameer Ashar, and Jocelyn Simonson on movement law under fascism. Plus, as always, the best of LPE from around the web! https://t.co/oBJX2POY3r
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Marshall Steinbaum on anti-monopolism as an ideology of the left, and Amna Akbar, Sameer Ashar, and Jocelyn Simonson on movement law under fascism. Plus, Dave Pozen and Jed Purdy examine three…
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