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Rising inequality, weakened workers' power—these ills can be attributed to an oft-ignored cause: read Lenore Palladino on the growing dominance of shareholder primacy among corporations and its effects on society!
http://lpeblog.org/…/how-shareholder-primacy-hurts-jobs-an…/
Julie Suk - "Our jurisprudence of sex equality imagines a world without prescribed gender roles in the family and the public economic and political spheres. Almost fifty years ago, the Supreme Court repudiated the “separate spheres” tradition, which confined women to role of unpaid caregiver in the family and home, while reserving breadwinning and public power to men. Yet, neither constitutional equal protection nor statutory employment discrimination law acknowledges that the separate spheres tradition formed the infrastructure of social reproduction in our political economy."
http://lpeblog.org/…/gender-inequality-and-the-infrastruct…/
"In the context of an over-heated housing market, the right to counsel should be viewed as a limited intervention that operates when eviction is imminent, i.e. after the structural sources of displacement have done their work. Failure to recognize the limits of the right to counsel – and of access to justice paradigms more generally – naturalizes those structural sources and legitimates as normal the widening inequalities produced by our current political-economic and social order. Challenging inequality and displacement in a deep and lasting way requires moving beyond access to justice and critically engaging the core tenets of market-driven urbanization."
By John Whitlow
http://lpeblog.org/…/beyond-access-to-justice-challenging-…/
Conventional economic wisdom forces us into zero-sum choices and tradeoffs between essential public goods, like health and jobs. But Martha McCluskey is here to disprove all that: read her on why we should be fighting for economic human rights.
http://lpeblog.org/…/economic-human-rights-not-tough-polic…/
Free Trade for All: Market Romanticism Versus Reality
http://lpeblog.org/…/free-trade-for-all-market-romanticism…/
A two-part series on law and political economy in South Africa.
Part II: Antitrust and the Informal Sector in South Africa
"The first such pathway – encouraging small and medium sized firms via competition law - was striking in the way it tracked conversations on the U.S. left today about weaning antitrust from “consumer welfare,” and renewing its original aims by taking on today’s monopolies and oligopolies, with the goals of securing space for competitive, medium-sized fir...ms, and of safeguarding the polity itself, as well as the market, against the oligarchic power of big capital."
By Judge Dennis Davis, Willy Forbath, Lucy White, and Julia Dehm
http://lpeblog.org/…/antitrust-and-the-informal-sector-in-…/
A two-part series on law and political economy in South Africa.
Part 1: Toward a New Constitutional Political Economy in South Africa
"Such a project in turn requires two kinds of diagnostic “mapping.” On the one hand, the best substantive economic policies for enhancing equitable distribution must be identified, at least provisionally. And at the same time, promising sites for progressive state action must be targeted. So, we must have a “two-pronged” approach – creative eco...nomic policy and astute institutional reform programs –both of them in motion at the same time."
By Judge Dennis Davis, Willy Forbath, Lucie White and Julia Dehm
http://lpeblog.org/…/toward-a-new-constitutional-political…/
Moving tribute from Bob Hockett on the passing of Tammy Lothian. Bob discusses "financial reform" and Tammy's book "Law and the Wealth of Nations: Finance, Prosperity, and Democracy." https://lpeblog.org/…/from-form-to-reform-in-law-and-finan…/
The Senate is poised to pass a new bill in the name of "community banking"--but in reality, it is a windfall for big banks. Read Mehrsa Baradaran on why "community banking" is a myth and distraction from truly financing the poor.
Amy Kapczynski and Jedediah Purdy write on the political economy of guns.
"Constitutions, citizens, and markets are all made. Over the past forty years, we have made a gun market that follows the rules of almost no other markets in American life, supported by a gun jurisprudence that both draws on and amplifies divisive, inegalitarian, and misarchic strains in American politics. These are just a few of the legacies that this new generation of activists will have to confront as they recast the public meanings of safety and sovereignty."
https://lpeblog.org/…/…/08/guns-and-privatized-sovereignty/…
West Virginia strikers portend the future of labor organizing: and have lessons for the Fight for Fifteen campaign. Read Will Bloom's piece!
http://lpeblog.org/…/building-on-the-fight-for-15-lessons-…/
If structural injustice is the diagnosis; we have to take a structural approach to remedying the problem. Read K. Sabeel Rahman on rejecting the "meliorist" approach and putting human freedom at the heart of our reforms. Part II of Rahman's two-part series on structural inequality is here!
http://lpeblog.org/…/structural-inequality-and-the-law-par…/
Structural inequality is the handiwork of humans, and thus, a proper subject of redress. Read part one in K. Sabeel Rahman's two-part series!
http://lpeblog.org/…/structural-inequality-and-the-law-par…/
Frank Pasquale on the false trade-off between improved working conditions and job growth:
"Making work better for one group of laborers either via higher wages, or better working conditions will just as likely create jobs for other workers as reduce them. Context is critical. The real question for political economists is to determine which sectors to encourage investment in, and which to prune."
https://lpeblog.org/…/there-is-no-necessary-trade-off-betw…/
