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Dan Traficonte

@dtraficonte.bsky.social
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law prof at Northeastern; political economy, innovation, industrial policy, US-China tech rivalry

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Dan Traficonte @dtraficonte.bsky.social · 23/06/2026
Thrilled to be joining @nusl.bsky.social!!
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Jason Jackson @jasonbjackson.bsky.social · 25/02/2026
Really honored to have my new @harvardpress.bsky.social book be part of an @lpeblog.bsky.social symposium! I am deeply grateful to @lpeproject.bsky.social colleagues for the opportunity, and to my respondents @maggor.bsky.social, @abalasub.bsky.social & Amy Cohen for engaging with my work. 🙏
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LPE Blog @lpeblog.bsky.social · 24/02/2026
Today, @jasonbjackson.bsky.social kicks off a symposium on his new book, *Traders, Speculators, and Captains of Industry: How Capitalist Legitimacy Shaped Foreign Investment Policy in India.* Economic policymaking, he argues, is best understood as a state-led project of moral ordering of capital.
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Moral Orders of Capitalist Legitimacy
In today’s seemingly deglobalizing economy, policymakers across the world are in a quandary over how to regulate foreign firms. Should policymakers prevent foreign firms from attaining dominant market...
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Jason Jackson @jasonbjackson.bsky.social · 20/12/2025
I’m happy to share that my book “Traders, Speculators and Captains of Industry: How Capitalist Legitimacy Shaped Foreign Investment Policy in India,” published by @harvardpress.bsky.social is out!
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Syracuse University College of Law @syracuselaw.bsky.social · 11/11/2025
Professor @katmacfarlane.bsky.social essay Self-Accommodation has been published in the University of California Health Humanities Press collection “Legal Determinants of Health: From Incarceration to Accessibility,” edited by Brian Dolan and Juliet McMullin. escholarship.org/uc/item/96j9...
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The Legal Determinants of Health: From Incarceration to Accessibility 
Author(s): Dolan, Brian; McMullin, Juliet | Abstract: The Legal Determinants of Health: From Incarceration to Accessibility brings together six cutting-edge essays that expose how legal systems—through incarceration, detention, disability law, tort doctrine, and human subjects research—profoundly shape health outcomes and perpetuate structural inequality. From forced sterilizations in prisons to the hidden burdens of self-accommodation, the authors reveal how law can both cause and conceal harm, especially among marginalized populations. Blending bioethics, legal history, disability studies, and public health, this volume challenges readers to rethink what justice and autonomy mean in environments defined by surveillance, stigma, and institutional neglect—and calls for bold legal and structural reforms to achieve genuine health equity.
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Gregg Gonsalves @gregggonsalves.bsky.social · 02/11/2025
Some charts for those who don't know the extent of the US public (and private) investment in research (particularly in biomedical research) compared to other countries and institutions. The destruction of the US' scientific institutions has global implications.
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The Yale Law Journal @yalelawjournal.bsky.social · 31/10/2025
In his Article, @dtraficonte.bsky.social offers the first comprehensive analysis of government research, examining its institutional design, comparative advantages, and normative justifications, and situating it as an indispensable paradigm within the national innovation system.
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Dan Traficonte @dtraficonte.bsky.social · 31/10/2025
Excited that my new article is now out in the @yalelawjournal.bsky.social! The article takes a look at intramural research (R&D funded and performed by the government) from an innovation law perspective: yalelawjournal.org/article/gove...
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Government Research | Yale Law Journal
Previous scholarship has analyzed a host of innovation institutions––including patents, prizes, and grants––but has overlooked government-conducted...
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JS Tan @js-tan.bsky.social · 04/09/2025
In my review of Dan Wang's Breakneck, I argue that China’s trajectory looks less unique—and less puzzling—when viewed through the lens of the developmental state, a framework long used to explain the (also building-heavy) rise of Japan and Korea. www.valueadded.tech/p/is-china-a...
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Is China an Engineering or Developmental State?
Breakneck is excellent, but could use a touch more developmental thinking.
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Lisa L. Ouellette @patentscholar.bsky.social · 30/03/2025
The ongoing denigration of expertise, science, and the research enterprise will have both short- and long-term costs for human health and lives
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Dan Diamond @ddiamond.bsky.social · 28/03/2025
See this chart for one stark example: NIH funding has dramatically slowed down. Grant awards are down *$3 billion* so far, compared to same time period last year I asked the White House to explain. “This is not a researcher entitlement program,” said an official, defending their new approach.
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Dan Traficonte @dtraficonte.bsky.social · 23/03/2025
A major advantage of state-sponsored science — particularly in-house government R&D — is (or was?) the avoidance of the low-risk short-termism of corporate research
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Dan Traficonte @dtraficonte.bsky.social · 18/03/2025
Trump admin may think corporate R&D alone can maintain national tech competitiveness — a pre-WW2 idea that every country with the means to do so has since abandoned
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Dan Traficonte @dtraficonte.bsky.social · 16/03/2025
We could add to @quinnslobodian.com’s analogy Trump’s gutting of state capacity — SA is famously reliant on outside “experts” from McKinsey et al for any and all major decisions
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