Today, a call to join the next era of LPE: a democratic, independent, member-led organization that will serve as a home for a broad array of LPE work.

extremely sad news that Asad Haider has passed away. i didn't know him personally but it'd be impossible to overstate how important his writing and editing in Viewpoint was to my trajectory. as I said last night, we are losing too many comrades.

What is the care economy? It is $4b/day in developmental care, $12b/day in activities that support daily living, and another $4b/day on time caring for a loved ones' health. The equivalent of $20 billion/day of effort is invested in caregiving in the U.S. Check out the details.👇👇👇 #thecareboard

This is a new piece from me on the increasing significance of class in arrests and incarceration. 1/ cepr.net/publications...

“what do you do when the pursuit of middle-range theory feels no more useful than trying to determine how many angels can fit on the head of a pin? My own response has been to zoom out, to shift my research toward the big political economy questions: …” lpeproject.org/blog/in-this...

MPP (marriage promotion and preferences) is the new DEI.

"Grossman and Hopkins note that today there are more nonprofit employees in the US than there are manufacturing workers, around three million as of 2023." jacobin.com/2024/11/libe...

Erik Olin Wright's "Understanding Class" (both the 2009 New Left Review piece and the 2015 collection with the same title) is notable for bringing together three of the main approaches (stratification, Weberian, and Marxist) to class. See also his lecture here: www.youtube.com/watch?v=Kmii...

Resistance 1.0 didn't fail because it was too reflexively anti-Trump. Resistance 1.0 did not build sustainable power because it was too formalistic. It was focused on what was aberrant and abhorrent about Trump, rather than the impact of his corruption and incompetence on actual people.

"Soviet computing was–ironically–severely undermined by a lack of cohesive, collectivist planning...whereas electronics development in Massachusetts and California was lavishly state-funded, leisurely and cooperative. The Bulgarians were fully aware of this..." newleftreview.org/sidecar/post...

Such a telling and important figure illustrating how childcare costs impact inequality!

After not showing up to votes since Thanksgiving, Senator Sinema finally showed up today only to vote against a nominee she had voted to confirm for the same position just four years ago. Why show up now? Sinema is currently auditioning for the role of corporate sell-out

"Gamoneda is not a poet of the establishment. Self-taught, working-class, insurgent, an extraordinary voice in post-Civil War Spain. His work is defiant: hermetic, elliptical, fragmented; words have no fixed meaning; readers must accept being cocreators" www.poetryfoundation.org/poetrymagazi...

NEWS: Sen. Schumer filed cloture on Lauren McFerran for another term on the National Labor Relations Board. If she's confirmed Democrats will maintain a majority on the board until 2026.

Evidence has demonstrated this effect in numerous cities now. I understand why it sounds weird to say, 'building a bunch of fancy new townhouses and skyscrapers will make housing more affordable!' but it simply appears to be true.

People in poor health — especially in non-government plans — in large fractions do hate their plans. You have to actually use it in a meaningful way to have a view on its quality. And, quite obviously insurers work, via a range of burdens (denials, pre auths)to restrict access to care b/c profits.

Like I keep saying, Minnesota social democracy is happening and going national next.

Yes, 100%. (Also underrated: UMass economics.)

"Archaeological and anthropological evidence suggests that a culture of aggressive egalitarianism may have thwarted the emergence of enduring wealth inequality until the Late Neolithic...." www.aeaweb.org/articles?id=...

my book, "Good Company: Economic Policy after Shareholder Primacy," is officially out today 📚 a brief thread on what it's about 🧵 press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/bo...

Co-sign, also Reclaim Idaho's website has great merch with their green camper van on it.

To make up for all the Best Books of the Year end-of-year lists that inevitably omit poetry:

Finally read it. It's great. Read it now before you formulate your next post-election take.

Prior to colonization, Native nations wouldn’t have envisioned themselves as one collective “race”—that was an identity forced on us by Europeans and later the United States. For example, the Wampanoag and Navajo languages are more linguistically distant than English and Hindi.

In 4 years of asking swing and surge voters their chief beef with Dems in focus groups, #1 thing we hear is "they don't fight." When we ask them to liken Dems to an animal, top choices are slug, sloth, turtle & tortoise.

Welfare cuts in Denmark led to worse educational attainment among young immigrant children, who grew up to also have lower earnings and higher rates of criminal convictions, say researchers at the University College London and the Rockwool Foundation. #econsky www.aeaweb.org/research/cha...

Fantastic piece by @aaronregunberg.bsky.social advocating for climate populism/pro-working-class environmentalism. It applies our corporate crackdown lens to the climate crisis: name and shame specific villains from Big Oil, etc. whose insatiable quest for profits is making life harder. 🧵

I am eagerly awaiting the release of this very important book by the brilliant @christinajcross.bsky.social! #sociology #academicsky

The CFPB protects consumers from wrongdoing by large financial institutions. That's why Elon Musk and his billionaire buddies want to "delete" it. 1/

"Nobody has a better sense of the colloquial American idiom. Nobody among her contemporaries writes better poems about urban working-class life.” www.poetryfoundation.org/articles/163...

Over half of people in low-income families with kids live in married-couple families, and about 1 in 10 in domestic-partnered ones. (Figures are a bit dated, so could use an update, but no reason to think basic picture has changed). www.americanprogress.org/article/part...

Great piece from @rachelmcohen.bsky.social. I'm with Bruenig on this: "the technical fix is to just tax everyone on their personal income rather than using household income", but would also add that our system (and many proposed reforms) create marriage bonuses.

"The philosophy of Mr. Rawls...is grounded...in reciprocity and cooperation....Rawls has frequently been misunderstood as advocating a familiar politics of redistribution, in which society seeks to maximize growth and compensate the “losers” through welfare payments." www.nytimes.com/2024/11/24/o...

"the space of lifestyles in the US today is not exceptional but structured according to principles remarkably like those discovered in 1970s France by Bourdieu and detected by others using similar indicators across Europe today" journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10....

This new article is an exemplary piece of scholarship. It breaks new ground in showing the childcare market is driving income inequality. Better than anything I’ve seen, it demonstrates how critical childcare is as social infrastructure for the public good.Terrific piece of work!

This is so true. Every time I read about how great our economy is compared to other countries, this life expectancy chart pops into my brain. The fixation on economic measures (it's all great!) is really missing huge underlying problems in the U.S. that are captured in health measures.

Saying hi to this new site by sharing my last ASR pub, w amazing colab @imarinescu.bsky.social! We show that privatized childcare services play a direct role creating family income inequality in the US, bc unaffordable childcare hurts lower income families most doi.org/10.1177/0003...

My new piece for @liberalcurrents.com on the liberal socialist canon

There's this big intra-party debate between progressives and moderates. But on the ground in elections, that debate is over: even Blue Dogs and moderates used economic populism, even those "niche FTC issues," to win. @lukewgoldstein.bsky.social brings the receipts:

"there is no trade-off between short-term relief and long-term poverty reduction. Rather, cash transfers encourage women’s labour force participation, particularly when complementary public goods, such as educational facilities, are available." drive.google.com/file/d/1ksDE...

"progressives should give up their cherished notion that “people of color” has any electoral meaning. The idea that one can rely on racial solidarity ... has always been based largely on hope" www.dissentmagazine.org/online_artic...

Acemoglu: "Democrats can talk about opportunity and jobs until they turn blue, but unless they distance themselves from the tech and global business elite, such messaging will not translate into a real pro-worker agenda - and workers will see right through it." www.socialeurope.eu/why-the-demo...

I am once again urging my fellow bubble-residents to stop thinking NYT coverage affected this election.

Not Deliverism. Not Popularism. Partyism. Pete Davis - www.thenation.com/article/poli... Ned Resnikoff resnikoff.beehiiv.com/p/the-party-... and me - goodauthority.org/news/popular... - with closely overlapping arguments today.

just getting back, and catching up, thanks @davebrady72.bsky.social!

I finally found an example of the government incentivizing someone to stay unemployed.

me two drinks into every happy hour and dinner party: "real Reconstruction has never been tried"