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Just found out about a Second Wave Consumer Movement organization from Arkansas called The Society for the Booing of Commercial Advertisements in Motion Picture Houses, and...

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*taps sign* Some of this doesn't quite hold up. Ferguson has done more than threaten enforcement against political enemies, and he's been willing to risk losing, e.g., 1A challenges. lpeproject.org/blog/market-...

Suppose you're a law prof writing an article on a PK micro approach to price discrimination...

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If your theory becomes generally accepted in your discipline, what consequence can we predict for sociology's selection processes?

This pretty clearly implies he thinks up. And I guess also that stock prices in other firms would go up? bsky.app/profile/jaso...

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oh my goodness. glad you're okay, but wtf

Luke Herrine @lookheron.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

the sub-branch of a sub-branch of moral philosophy?

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Luke Herrine @lookheron.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

Tremendous new psych-folk-indie-rock album from an artist I haven't heard any buzz about: open.spotify.com/album/19VeXl...

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God Is A Frog Heaven Is A Swamp - Album by Dark Dazey | Spotify

Dark Dazey · album · 2026 · 13 songs

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Luke Herrine @lookheron.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

So much going on in this skeet

Luke Herrine @lookheron.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

(I’ve now argued that for consumer protection and student debt in separate pieces, drawing specific connections)

Luke Herrine @lookheron.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

My working hypothesis with a lot of these shifts is delayed financial crisis reaction. Created a supply of people who wanted to think differently about Econ policy from a variety of (populist/anticorporate) directions

Luke Herrine @lookheron.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

Unfortunately I've come to the view that many L&E folks don't think we're serious thinkers. They think we're some combination of hackish, soft-headed, and antisemitic. The LPE stuff that they think is good/challenging is just the exception or lucky or something.

Luke Herrine @lookheron.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

...by inviting one of the rising stars of centrist antitrust who is also the son of arguably the most influential antitrust scholar of his generation??

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Luke Herrine @lookheron.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

Good stuff! But, I’m sorry, the reason the debate is stuck is that economists can’t seem to read more than two LPE articles, or at least they pretend not to. Look at the Hovenkamp response to New Brandeis, which you hold out as an example, in that symposium!

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James Fallows Tierney @jamesftierney.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

1/ The L&E vs. LPE debate is stuck. One side asks if LPE is rigorous enough to satisfy economists; the other says economists' rigor hides value judgments. At LPE Blog this morning, I offer a way to break the stalemate. 🧵 lpeproject.org/blog/what-co...

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What Could LPE Want from a Method?

Law and economics offers a portable, teachable procedure that students can learn in a semester and apply across fields. Should LPE aim to develop a rival procedure of its own, or should it aspire to a...

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Huh. I'm not sure there's a new problem here in that regard, but I guess I'll have to keep thinking.

This is a great speech, btw. Starts by recalling a kosher meat boycott! Cc @nathantankus.bsky.social

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Some professional news nycpolicyforum.substack.com/p/collective...

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[Zizek voice] The Turing Test is an impoverished version of Hegel's notion of mutual recognition. The true test is not whether LLMs are human but what sort of dialectical relationships with humans they produce.

Luke Herrine @lookheron.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

critical realism, veb. CRITICAL REALISM

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Luke Herrine @lookheron.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

social relations = "frictions"

Luke Herrine @lookheron.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Brands paid ad companies money to prevent this type of ad placement from happening and the FTC declared it an antitrust violation (tho they likely wouldn’t win in court) and pushed those companies to agree to stop doing it.

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Luke Herrine @lookheron.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

Reminder that the FTC went after ad companies for collusive boycotts because they “censored” hate accounts by giving companies ways to avoid placing ads next to them. I wonder if we’ll see that here

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Luke Herrine @lookheron.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

The head of WBHM--a local NPR affiliate in Alabama--just announced he's stepping down because Governor Ivey requires all state employees to refer to "Gulf of America" and "Lake America" and he's drawing the line at this erosion of editorial independence.

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Luke Herrine @lookheron.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

The best show is Deadwood. Ted Lasso should not be on any list of good shows, let alone best shows. End transmission.

Luke Herrine @lookheron.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

So concerned with winning the race they forgot the hare loses because caught napping

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Luke Herrine @lookheron.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Happy to say bye to ICE. I think FBI is different. Arrest white collar criminals? Go after bribery? FCPA? Not to deny that there won’t be any difficulties!

Megan Wachspress @meganwachspress.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

And I'd say that plenty of people would be willing to take risks that not all of that administrative detail would be sewed up (i.e. there'd be more battles) if it seems like it's a real effort to remake the state

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For @lpeblog.bsky.social I wrote about why "bring your own power" is a false solution to the problem of datacenter energy demand and why municipalization (public ownership and control) of regional transmission organizations is necessary to protect ratepayers and accelerate decarbonization.

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The Neoliberal Grid is in Crisis

To protect customers from rising electricity prices, public officials are urging data center developers to supply their own power. But this approach risks privatizing the power grid…

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Sure. I don't think it's reconstructive unless it aims for a new settlement and at least partially achieves it. And I also am at best only somewhat hopeful that that's what this Democratic Party will cook up, given continued weakness of insurgent left political movements among other things. But!

True, and somebody's gotta be Director of the Bureau of Economics there

I'm not so sure. An inspiring reconstructive agenda would bring competent and creative folks (many of whom are currently underemployed and/or unsatisfactorily employed) rushing in.

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The tiger is capitalism and the person is the worker's movement

Sandeep @sandeepinbk.bsky.social · 20/08/2026

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New draft paper from me up on ssrn: ‘THE LEGAL REALISM OF W.E.B. DU BOIS’ - tracing Du Bois’s underexamined legal thought, from his 1896 dissertation on the slave trade through to his and the NAACP’s 1947 Appeal to the World papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....

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The Legal Realism of W.E.B. Du Bois

The great writer, activist, and scholar W.E.B. Du Bois saw his career unfold alongside the development of Legal Realism, an intellectual movement whose rapid ri

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Association of Law and Political Economy @a-lpe.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

Friends! We are thrilled to announce the Call for Proposals for our next annual meeting in Boston, MA, June 9-10, 2027. Please consider submitting a panel, roundtable, or individual paper proposal! lawandpoliticaleconomy.org?page_id=63

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Conference - Association of Law & Political Economy

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, ...

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