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It seems wildly under appreciated just how profound digital tokenisation is to the near term future of Western governance institutions/roles - aka, the Great Pivot.

Happy Manchester Pride weekend

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"They could not have suspected that the time... already here, and this precisely is modern times - when those who do not gamble lose all the time, even more assuredly than those who do." - C. Peguy, L'Argent

Law and Technology in Higher Education study just posted: papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.... Blending empirical/quantitative data with analysis to provide sociology of cohorts and its institutions.

Anyone going on US law school job market with a 'law and political economy' adjascent set of interests?

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Introduction and Table of Contents to Research Handbook on Law and Political Economy (in print October 2025) papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.... www.researchgate.net/publication/...

www.roccellasummerschool.org/glpe-summer-... Global Law and Political Economy Summer Academy July 2025

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Researchers often (wrongly) interpret change as having a particular direction forward and defining a particular constellation backward. Eg, phenomena of more wage labour in 20th than 18th is source of more error than insight, at least with law academics.

Attend the Global Law and Political Economy Summer Academy this July in Roccella Ionica, Italy! Applications are due by April 25th: ysiproject.org/RoccellaAcad... @johnhaskell.bsky.social @ineteconomics.bsky.social

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The international law profession today seems entangled in an economic jurisprudence of marginalist exchange and a theological jurisprudence of metaphysical settlement.

For international law to escape the most banal aspects of late 19th/20th century economic metaphysics, it would have to give up on its many legal varieties of 'exchange theory'.

In lieu of a New piece, I've decided to publish my June 2018 talk at the University of Manchester on Monetary Sovereignty and treating it as a "Spectrum" even as we emphasize Dollar dominance over the global financial system. I think it will be helpful to readers www.crisesnotes.com/june2018manc...

It seems relatively clear that China/Asia is ascendent accumulation regime (and by extention, cultural). US inability to accommodate = US wants to go to war soon to try and stop + escalate China prepared for that kinetic fight. Aka, global war between these two orders on the horizon.

Great talk. Also very nice to be like, yeah, that very smart/principled guy, he's my friend.

Prices represent capacity, not to produce, but to incapacitate, even at expense of efficiency/raise cost. In this sense, bonds as representation of share of organized violence. Political economy today balances dismantling the public but keeping them good for the debt and its enforcement.

DeFi(sc-ing) the Fed open.spotify.com/episode/6qpX... Really insightful and extremely relevant.

Little story about this. I read a (then) new section in it 10 days ago. After I did, I told other people "not only is it a very good, important paper. Now I can tell its going to be the best law review article I've ever read". You'll be able to judge for yourself (Law Review editors: publish it!)

International Law is a Cyborg Science? papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....

Money on the Left speaks with Raúl Carrillo, assistant professor of Law at Boston College, about gaming money. moneyontheleft.org/2025/03/02/g...

Billy Saas and guest-host Ben Wilson speak with Martha McCluskey about the ins and outs of the Law & Political Economy movement.

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@schulichlaw.bsky.social is hiring for two fantastic academic fellowships for next year, aimed at those with a clear research plan and an interest in law school teaching. The first is the Prudy Crawford Fellowship, designed to support scholarship in business law broadly understood.

Excited to have joined the University of Manchester's Law and Technology Initiative as a Visiting Research Fellow Looking forward to building the future of public money with @johnhaskell.bsky.social and the talented fellows I am lucky to be working with www.law-tech.manchester.ac.uk/research/vis...

Reflections on Gaza Godspeed You! Black Emperor www.youtube.com/watch?v=Zgky...

my adhd makes reading interviews hard, so the full video is hitting so good www.youtube.com/watch?v=OOsA...

Centre for the Study of African Economies at University of Oxford will automatically consider all applicants from Africa for full funding for the MPhil in Economics - we have new scholarships for eligible students. How? Just apply asap: deadline 4th March (extended deadline): see below

Law and Political Economy research stream applications for EAEPE Conference Sept 2025 in Athens closes 1st March.

Early January Jams www.youtube.com/watch?v=e26z...

Recommendations of who to read/invite who focus on metaphysics/political theology of digital technology (past, present, future)?

It seems not to have occurred to [academics] that the net effect of their advocacy [for progressive legal change] might amount to little more than the circulation of a three word phrase 'progressive legal change'... The same, of course... of 'efficiency'... www.dukeupress.edu/the-enchantm...

Useful literature ask: 1/ Critiques of Game Theory (beyond 'bounded' rationality/imperfect market) 2/ Discussing 'Theory of the Firm' relation to 'Theory of the State' 3/ Critiquing 'Theory of the Firm'... NOTE: better forums for hunting literature suggestions than facebook/twitter/bluesky?

French post-structuralism is an unintended effort to turn American electrical mechanistic (early computer) culture into theoretical practice.

My talk on global governance and digital technologies - 'international law becomes a cyborg science?' voelkerrechtsblog.org/4th-episode-...

Common Crypto/Micro-Mainstream Economist Fallacy Set: Aggregate micros = Complex/macro system Complex system = Society Society = Market Society/Market/Micro = Natural Law = Protecting/Institutionalising Natural Non-natural = Anything contradicting this

In materialist terms, what distinguishes a marxist/left/radical legal scholar from a progressive/left of centre/heterodox/very liberal legal scholar?

Anyone any suggestions about the influence of 'law and psychiatry/psychology' on legal academia, even if only intermittent/fad - as it relates to (lead into) CLS and more generally in the academy?

legal expertise is more grounded in problem solving than rule interpretation, but this doesn't carry a political orientation.

A hesitation w/ "post humanism" et al... R. Higgins of ICJ, back in 70s, was celebrating IL as having no subject/object distinctions, just everyone a participant... as a way to give MNCs more agency. Watch MNCs/hedge funds suing public on behalf of their products in future...

I dream of a twitter/bluesky type platform, where people can only post/reply to research questions... We could have a platform that does opinions (e.g., political takes), another that is job announcements (including publications), another that is joking, and another that is research questions...

[Unbelievably excited to announce] A two-year postdoctoral appointment in LABOR HISTORY, 1500-Present. Brown University, Department of History Applications due 2/15/24