Asst Prof, Alabama Law. Formerly: LPE Blog, Debt Collective. Consumer law, consumer finance, market governance, law and political economy
There are a lot of important things going on. Maybe this isn’t a top twenty concern. But, this is actually workplace harassment, the kind that can get people killed.
carmenlynnThe Koch Nazis are back “A shadowy network of conservative activist groups, backed by Koch-linked dark money, is deploying hidden cameras and mass public-records requests to hunt down and destroy the careers of college professors and administrators — and it's working.”
We’re starving millions of Americans so musk and bezos can get tax cuts and trump can collect bribes www.theatlantic.com/newsletters/...
The Coming Food-Stamp CrisisA looming deadline may force some states to end SNAP next year.www.theatlantic.com
I wrote about how immigration arrests are at all-time highs, even as ICE is trying to assume a lower public profile. How are they doing this? Look to your local police.
ICE’s Secret Weapon Is in Your CommunityWhile attempting to maintain a relatively lower profile, ICE is managing to arrest record numbers of people. Here’s how it’s doing that.newrepublic.comJust found out what "gekkering" is, and...I will be using to describe social media interactions www.youtube.com/watch?v=JKHZ...
Foxes GekkeringYouTube video by Reilly Grantwww.youtube.com
We need you to ACT NOW and send your US Representative an email opposing devastating farm worker legislation to make Trump's farm worker wage cuts into federal law. 5 Democrats have joined 47 Republicans in co-sponsoring this devastating legislation. 1/
Supermarket sushi is now a multibillion-dollar industry, but according to a new lawsuit, the market is fueled by an unjust franchise system that skirts labor laws to exploit the industry's Burmese workforce. To learn more, read Victor Maung's latest for @prismreports.org:
The hidden cost of America's supermarket sushi boomMyanmar refugees face exploitative working conditions as the backbone of the grocery store sushi industry, according to a lawsuitprismreports.orgThe only thing that prevented me from throwing my phone out the window while I read this is that I imagined it in an Australian accent
Eli ValleyDystopia www.news.com.au/technology/o...
I think Zohran’s grocery stores are a worthwhile policy experiment. That said, the idea that people in food deserts eat less produce due to lack of access has been thoroughly debunked. The real problem is that low-income people can’t use SNAP for hot prepared foods.
Really interesting how many people are treating this article as solo-authored so they can express their ongoing annoyance at Sam Moyn.
The GuardianWhat should replace the American-led world order? | Aslı Bâli and Samuel Moyn
Glick & Lozada's careful takedown of zombie welfare economics is playing a big role in my current thinking on price discrimination (in which talk of "surplus" is all over the place, even in cutting-edge I/O, without any acknowledgement of the problems with the concept)
The Sling"The Economics on Which the Law and Economics Movement Relies Is Ideology, Not Science" by Mark Glick, Gabriel Lozada, and Darren Bush (And the science more readily supports the LPE movement) cc: @lpeblog.bsky.social www.thesling.org/the-economic...
This piece replies to @madisoncondon.bsky.social and @lookheron.bsky.social's excellent piece in @LPEblog, found here: lpeproject.org/blog/the-eco...
The Economics that Law and Economics IgnoresThere are more things in heaven and earth, Horatio, than are dreamt of in your philosophy.lpeproject.org"The Economics on Which the Law and Economics Movement Relies Is Ideology, Not Science" by Mark Glick, Gabriel Lozada, and Darren Bush (And the science more readily supports the LPE movement) cc: @lpeblog.bsky.social www.thesling.org/the-economic...
The Economics on Which the Law and Economics Movement Relies Is Ideology, Not Science - The SlingThe notion of efficiency that undergirds Law and Economics is a zombie ideological economic concept.www.thesling.org