Marc Shkurovich on the case for public pharma, Katharina Pistor on the challenges of social democratic reform, and Yochai Benkler on taking social relations as the basic unit of analysis.

In capitalism, social relations of production exert outsized force on all other domains, distorting and warping relations of reproduction, protection, and meaning-making without fully annihilating…

In recent decades, capitalists have largely succeeded in undermining the state's capacity to act, leaving it too weak to carry out social democratic reforms even with a favorable government in place.

To make medicines more affordable, policymakers are increasingly turning to price controls and out-of-pocket caps. These measures, while lowering costs, leave decisions about which drugs to…

Dive into what NYC can do to advance affordability for working families during the rise of AI and corporate consolidation.

Jed Purdy discusses law’s role in capitalism, while Megan Wachspress explores how the data center boom risks privatizing the power grid. Plus, Beatrice Adler-Bolton and Gabe Winant on gerontocracy…

How much autonomy does politics have from the prevailing economic order? And what role does culture play in shaping politics? Answers to these questions will help determine law’s potential role in…

Beatrice speaks with Gabriel Winant about the idea popular in some circles that we live in a “gerontocracy” and whether and how age could be

Dive into what NYC can do to advance affordability for working families during the rise of AI and corporate consolidation.

Yochai Benkler on the dynamics of capitalism and law's role within it, Matthew Dimick on capital and law as social forms, and Matthew Lawrence on administrative law after transsubstantivity. Plus…

Administrative law is often described as “transsubstantive”: in understanding, evaluating, and articulating the rules governing federal agency action across public health, environmental regulation…

Our blog begins from the observation that democratic political processes have lost control over fundamental decisions about how resources are allocated in our society.

New York City has long failed to provide enough public toilets. The Mamdani administration has the tools to change that.

Where do profits come from? And how does law legitimate capitalism? To make progress on these questions, we must dig deeper into the nature of capital and the idea of the legal form.

The Case for Building Participation into Infrastructure

Sameer Ashar on the potential transformation of the U.S. immigration system, Luke Herrine on the history of multilevel marketing and right-wing movement building, and a CFP for the second annual ALPE…

What the history of multilevel marketing can teach us about our political moment.

The Association of Law and Political Economy invites proposals for its second annual meeting, to be held on June 9-10, 2027, in Boston, MA.

Noam Scheiber’s Mutiny shows that the labor organizing of the radicalized PMC is far more than a fit of whimsical proletarian roleplay.

What the history of multilevel marketing can teach us about our political moment — and potential ways out of it.

2027 Annual ALPE Meeting June 9-10, 2027, Boston, MA We are thrilled to announce the Call for Proposals for the Association of Law and Political Economy’s 2027 annual meeting. We will meet in Boston, ...

What the history of multilevel marketing can teach us about our political moment — and potential ways out of it.

Is LPE scholarship anti-empirical? Has contemporary law and economics become a neutral social science? Don't believe everything you hear in Chicago.

Gerontocracy in America has elicited a common refrain from critics: that class, not age, is the real problem. Yet this kind of class reductionism has largely been rejected when it comes to gender and…

Two 3L LPE fans (and Blog editors) reflect on what LPE has to offer to new law students.

A new legal history argues that the Justices should be stripped of their power to overrule coequal branches of government. It arrives at an awkward moment.

As Sam Moyn has recently argued, "class reductionism" fails to explain differentiation along the generational gradient — a pattern clearly visible in economics, politics, and ideology.

Madison Condon and Luke Herrine on the economics that Law & Economics ignores, Jeremy Bearer-Friend and Sarah Polcz on why we should tax AI equity, Matt Bodie on the persistence of shareholder primacy...

A conversation with Michael Sant’Ambrogio and Glen Staszewski about how to increase public participation in government rulemaking.

Employment discrimination law is primarily concerned with exclusion from good jobs. Yet this leaves unaddressed a corresponding problem: employers seeking out marginalized workers in order to reduce…