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LPE Blog @lpeblog.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

The Blog returns to action on Monday. Until then, here are a few summer favorites you may have missed while you were busy touching grass. 🧵

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LPE Blog @lpeblog.bsky.social · 10/07/2026

Need something to watch this weekend? Check out The Battle of Algiers or one of our other summer picks.

Bob Ferguson (Ghetto Pat) settling in for a relaxing evening with The Battle of Algiers.

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LPE Blog @lpeblog.bsky.social · 26/06/2026

Finally, don’t miss the latest issue of the @jlpe.bsky.social, featuring articles on labor exploitation, neoliberal eugenics, state capitalism, and more! escholarship.org/uc/lawandpol...

Journal of Law and Political Economy, Volume 6, Number 1

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LPE Blog @lpeblog.bsky.social · 17/04/2026

Did you or a scholar whose work you love have an article accepted this academic year? If so, let us know! Later this month, we’ll highlight some of the hottest LPE and LPE-adjacent work from the past two cycles. Send nominations to managingeditor@lpeblog.org. Self-noms highly encouraged!

Title of a previous edition of "Some of the Best New LPE and LPE-Adjacent Scholarship"

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LPE Blog @lpeblog.bsky.social · 03/04/2026

Not to be outdone, the latest issue of the Fordham Law Review contains eight (!!) new pieces on antitrust law and oligarchy. fordhamlawreview.org/symposia/

Lawless Antitrust
By John M. Newman
Public Utility Law as Anti-Oligarchy Regulation
By Ganesh Sitaraman
Antitrust, Vampires and Bloody Acquisitions
By Theodosia Stavroulaki
AI, Antitrust, and the Marketplace of Ideas
By Maurice E. Stucke
The Revival of Section 5: A Return to the FTC’s Roots in a Time of Democratic Crisis
By Shaoul Sussman
The Nondiscrimination Principle
By Zephyr Teachout
Why Capitalism Needs Democracy and Democracy Needs Capitalism
By Luigi Zingales
Antitrust and Economic Liberty
By Doha Mekki

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LPE Blog @lpeblog.bsky.social · 03/04/2026

The latest issue of Law and Contemporary Problems contains seven (!) new pieces on law and capitalism. lcp.law.duke.edu

Articles
Legal Method and Political Time
Odette Lienau & Aziz Rana
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Marx, Marxism, and the Critique of Law
Umut Özsu
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Does Law Constitute Society?
Jeremy Kessler
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Beyond the Market: What Does It Mean to Theorize Capitalism?
Amy Kapczynski
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Indeterminacy and the Political Economy: CLS, Legal Politics, and Defetishizing the LPE Debate
Akbar Rasulov
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Law as a Form of Life: On Capitalism and Critical Theory
Justin Deystone
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Capitalism & Jurisprudence
Paulo Barrozo

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LPE Blog @lpeblog.bsky.social · 29/01/2026

It's here. (p. 7 in the report)

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LPE Blog @lpeblog.bsky.social · 28/01/2026

"With governments entirely reliant on Equifax to administer life-saving benefits to millions of low-income Americans, steep price hikes quickly followed. The NYT uncovered that in many places, the toll paid to Equifax doubled, then tripled, and more than quadrupled in only a few years."

A chart showing that in 2016, Equifax charged $5.53 per verification, and that number tripled to $15 per verification by 2025.

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LPE Blog @lpeblog.bsky.social · 19/09/2025

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...

Grahpic that says: "New Issue: Journal of Law and Political Economy Volum 5, Issue 3"

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LPE Blog @lpeblog.bsky.social · 16/07/2025

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! 🧵

An image that reads "DEMOCRACY IN POWER" in white font against a blue background.

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LPE Blog @lpeblog.bsky.social · 13/06/2025

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!

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LPE Blog @lpeblog.bsky.social · 15/05/2025

LPE Blog vs. NYT, Round 1, FIGHT: lpeproject.org/blog/the-ant...

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.

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LPE Blog @lpeblog.bsky.social · 21/02/2025

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. peoplesparityaction.org/wp-content/u...

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.

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LPE Blog @lpeblog.bsky.social · 21/02/2025

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. towardsjustice.org/wp-content/u...

text reading: "Prohibiting Surveillance Prices and Wages."

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LPE Blog @lpeblog.bsky.social · 27/01/2025

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! lpeproject.org/blog/define-...

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.

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LPE Blog @lpeblog.bsky.social · 27/01/2025

Perhaps we should have titled this post: "Ezra Klein, please stop unwittingly carrying water for the Trump Administration" lpeproject.org/blog/define-...

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LPE Blog @lpeblog.bsky.social · 10/12/2024

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.

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LPE Blog @lpeblog.bsky.social · 17/11/2024

LPE Starter Pack 1: go.bsky.app/P2sMKhK LPE Starter Pack 2: go.bsky.app/8N2nnSx

A picture with a wide array of pokemon characters. At the top it reads "Gotta Catch'em All!" At the Bottom it reads "Law and Political Economy"

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LPE Blog @lpeblog.bsky.social · 29/10/2024

We know where you can find an algorithm

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LPE Blog @lpeblog.bsky.social · 26/10/2024

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!

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LPE Blog @lpeblog.bsky.social · 04/09/2024

Appropriate response would just be to respond with:

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LPE Blog @lpeblog.bsky.social · 04/09/2024

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.

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LPE Blog @lpeblog.bsky.social · 15/03/2024

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!

Bernie Sanders "asking again" meme with caption: "I am once again asking you to submit your forthcoming LPE-relevant articles"

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LPE Blog @lpeblog.bsky.social · 13/03/2024

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! lpeproject.org/symposia/

A list of six symposia from our new symposia page.

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