ICYMI: Luke Herrine @lookheron.bsky.social and I wrote a (pretty chill, I think) response to being called part of an "intellectual vacuum"

I really enjoyed working on this piece with Luke (from whom I learned so much!) responding to a Law and Economics UChicago symposium that I thought was pretty rudely dismissive of the work done by Law and Political Economy scholars

Today, @madisoncondon.bsky.social & @lookheron.bsky.social explain how modern Law and Economics scholars continue to overlook legal scholarship that draws upon non-neoclassical economics. And to help correct this oversight, they offer a valuable overview of that scholarship!

As promised, @madisoncondon.bsky.social and I have an essay on how L&E scholars ignore LPE’s uses of non-neoclassical economics and then criticize LPE-ers for not knowing economics. In the spirit of better debate, we canvass some of that literature lpeproject.org/blog/the-eco...

Are you skilled at guessing dog breeds? Some shelter volunteers are running a contest to guess Augie's breed (our former foster). The closest guess to his DNA results will WIN BIG PRIZES. (And, hopefully, help him find his forever home). Guess here: www.facebook.com/share/p/1ByA...

really think that if democrats hold any chamber of congress next year that a condition of passing a budget is the removal of russ vought, who has a genuinely tyrannical vision of presidential power and is a focal point of the lawlessness of the trump administration

The week in review: Jeff Gordon on anti-entrenchment industrial policy, M. Sandhu against legislative primacy, Aslı Bâli on *The Constitutional Bind* during the interregnum, and R.H. Lossin on early-20th-century criminal syndicalism laws. Plus, new CFPs, jobs, and articles from around the web!

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

I've got a piece out in @nycpolicyforum.bsky.social sketching out a progressive vision for municipal financial empowerment. It builds on Lauren Willis's foundational critiques of financial literacy as well @debtcollective.bsky.social's experiments nycpolicyforum.substack.com/p/beyond-fin...

NEW: He was picking up a work crew to take them to construction site at 6 a.m. on Tuesday morning. ICE showed up. And now this small business owner, the father of three American citizens, is dead. www.thebulwark.com/p/he-lived-h...

Reader, we adopted her!

Today, R.H Lossin explains how early-20th-century criminal syndicalism laws invoked "sabotage" and property protection to criminalize the IWW's speech and organizing — a formula for anti-left repression that remains widely appealing.

New clickbait title: "A Genuinely Left Foreign Policy Can't Excuse Balogun's Red Card Reversal"

"The old constitutional and international settlements are unraveling together. Rana’s achievement is to show how Americans came to mistake constitutional veneration for democratic freedom and imperial leadership for internationalism."

Yes lpeproject.org/blog/revisit...

Today, Andrew Perry (@nyfiscalpolicy.bsky.social) examines the "Swiss Army Knife of NYC government": the Economic Development Corporation (EDC)--its powers, how they've been used in the past, & how they could be used to tackle the city's housing crisis nycpolicyforum.substack.com/p/nycedc-soc...

Today, M. Sandhu pushes back against recent calls for legislative primacy.

Loved this list (sourced mostly from our editorial board), but very curious to hear what other films people would have included!

Yesterday, we shared fifteen of our favorite films exploring issues of law and political economy. What did we miss? So far, we've heard: Trading Places, Chinatown, Eddington, and Hustlers(!) Help us construct the LPE film canon by adding your favorite in the thread below!

Busy waiting for Scotus to ruin your day? Get a jump on the weekend by browsing our LPE summer movie list!

Really interesting piece about how to resolve the inherent tension between antimonopoly and industrial policy.

Industrial policy is often in tension with competition - a problem I call "the dilemma of picking winners." In this essay and the associated working paper, I propose a framework for doing industrial policy without entrenching the winners. lpeproject.org/blog/the-dil...

This piece is really good on how to design industrial policy to promote competition. lpeproject.org/blog/the-dil...

If you're curious about the philosophy behind some of the clinic's work, check out this great post by the co-directors.

Some pertinent reading for anyone outraged by what happened to Pete Buttigieg and his family:

Wow, I'm seriously impressed that this episode caused Pete to reflect on the harms that CPS causes to parents and children across our society. Wait, what's that? He's just mad that *his family* was ensnared by the system? I see.

Week in review: @akapczynski.bsky.social on LPE and social science, @samuelmoyn.bsky.social on the class reductionist response to Gerontocracy, and @rmabud.bsky.social on why the affordability frame needs a power analysis. Plus, the hottest new essays, papers, and events from the around the web 🧵

Read it alongside this great Eisner and @elizabethcooper.bsky.social analysis for @nycpolicyforum.bsky.social nycpolicyforum.substack.com/p/the-econom...

One of the many reasons it is idiotic for Democrats to merely play defense on immigration.

Honored to be in @lpeproject.bsky.social about the need for a power analysis in affordability politics. Narrow technocratic or deregulatory "affordability" misses the point: affordability is about confronting power dynamics at the core of the cost of living crisis. lpeproject.org/blog/afforda...

Incredibly informative piece. This argument alone -- that rent increases have long tracked overall CPI, and overall CPI is heavily driven by market-rate rents -- would justify freezing rents for several years.

Today on our substack, in anticipation of tomorrow's Rent Guidelines Board vote, @nyfiscalpolicy.bsky.social economist Emily Eisner & Elizabeth Cooper discuss the purpose of rent regulation and the importance of getting the underlying economics right. nycpolicyforum.substack.com/p/the-econom...

"Over the past four decades, particularly since 9/11, legal actors have built on this architecture of repression.... It is to our collective detriment that, in the name of security, neither courts nor the public intervened to stop convictions in these cases." lpeproject.org/blog/guilty-...

Moyn on the surprising reappearance of class reductionism:

"The truth is that coalition-building is hard, and no one on the left (or right) knows how to break the impasse of American hierarchy at the moment. But just as liquidating gender or race will not magically unify progressives, the same is true of age."

Yay! @lpeblog.bsky.social asked if I would reply to progressive skeptics of the very idea of #gerontocracy, and I elevated the great James Chappel while reflecting on age and the lure of class reductionism, What do you think? lpeproject.org/blog/age-and...

"what makes LPE spaces so generative today is that LPE scholars are distinctively aiming at the integration of critical work with more directly normative and social scientific modalities of scholarship. It’s simply false that LPE is, or could be, against social science, as some implied in Chicago."

Is LPE scholarship anti-empirical? Has contemporary law and economics become a neutral social science? Don’t believe everything you hear in Chicago! From me on the blog today: lpeproject.org/blog/two-dog...

Gr8 post. “If there has been this great disavowal, where is the evidence? How have the casebooks changed, how has legal education changed? And where are the renunciations of Coase, Posner, and other canonical works, by a new generation of L&E scholars?” lpeproject.org/blog/two-dog...

Ian Ayres: By passing the SAVE Act, we would deny the president a justification to interfere in elections. Trump, five months from now: "Look, even the Democrats are saying it. They know it, everybody knows it. Illegal immigrants are trying to vote. And because of that, I have to step in."

Publication announcement! David Singh Grewal, Sanjay Reddy, and I have a new piece out in the Stanford Law & Policy Review. We examine how under the pressure of admin law, the CPI went from a measure promoting "decency and health" to an apolitical measure. law.stanford.edu/publications...

The Battle over the Constitution Has Spread to American Science. I'm out in the @theatlantic.com today about the new OMB proposed rule. It's just the longtime agenda of the the Supreme Court. US science and cancer cures now all depend on us picking up a fight with the Roberts Court.

NEW: Almost a year after Trump’s domestic policy bill passed, at least 770,000 children are no longer receiving SNAP benefits. In Arizona, the number of children receiving SNAP has dropped by more than 200,000 since July 2025 — a 55% decline.

"In the section on how to disrupt conferences, the manual’s authors advised saboteurs to 'talk as frequently as possible and at great length,' 'haggle over precise wordings.' and 'be worried about the propriety of any decision.' These are, of course, all things that scholars are supposed to do."

My colleague @azohra.bsky.social w great work breaking down all that’s super bad about Feds increasing use of terrorism / conspiracy charges to target political opponents. Here’s a nice one from @lpeblog.bsky.social. lpeproject.org/blog/guilty-...

What is LPE? Is it a reaction to law and economics? Does it have a method? What is its normative north star? Amy Kapczynski, Corinne Blalock, Aslı Bâli, Sabeel Rahman, Angela Harris, and Yochai Benkler offer their best answers to these questions in two sentences or less.

With Elon Musk becoming the world's first trillionaire, it's a good time to revisit Quinn Slobodian and Ben Tarnoff's deep dive on the Muskism-Fordism comparison.

Week in review: Evan Behrle on income inequality, @frankpasquale.bsky.social on Magnifica Humanitas, and @wanshucong.bsky.social on the informal governance of global capitalism. Plus, the best of LPE from around the web 🧵👇

Watching de'aaron fox fumble the game away: A man may leave Cowtown behind, believing he has escaped it. Yet the odor of that place clings to him, a reminder that some landscapes never release their hold on those who have passed through them.