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Today, @nhold.bsky.social explains why calls for mandatory retirement are mistaken, and what this mistake indicates about the character of elite academic circles, including the law and political economy movement.

What Rolls DownhillRecent calls for mandatory retirement in academia are a reminder that class and other social hierarchies are something like mountains with increasingly dense fog toward their peaks: the higher up one…lpeproject.org

Today, @gabrielwinant.bsky.social explains why a clear picture of how age mediates class would reveal not gerontocracy, but capitalism and the fractionated class system it produces.

Cradle to the GraveAs Sam Moyn has recently argued, "class reductionism" fails to explain differentiation along the generational gradient — a pattern clearly visible in economics, politics, and ideology.lpeproject.org

(Two) weeks in review: Madison Condon and Luke Herrine on the economics that Law & Economics ignores, Jeremy Bearer-Friend and Sarah Polcz on taxing AI equity, Matt Bodie on the persistence of shareholder primacy, and Diana Reddy on theorizing discrimination for the bad jobs economy.

Weekly Roundup: July 24Madison Condon and Luke Herrine on the economics that Law & Economics ignores, Jeremy Bearer-Friend and Sarah Polcz on why we should tax AI equity, Matt Bodie on the persistence of shareholder primacy...lpeproject.org

Today, Diana Reddy argues that by focusing on diversity at the top, rather than conditions at the bottom, discrimination law has failed the workers who need it most.

Theorizing Discrimination for the Bad Jobs EconomyEmployment discrimination law is primarily concerned with exclusion from good jobs. Yet this leaves unaddressed a corresponding problem: employers seeking out marginalized workers in order to reduce…lpeproject.org

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Today, @matthewtbodie.bsky.social welcomes the appearance of a kinder, gentler, more ecumenical version of law and economics. Yet in corporate law scholarship, where shareholder primacy still reigns supreme, he finds scant evidence of any such shift.

Twilight of the GodsContemporary proponents of law and economics claim to have abandoned the idea that law is an instrument for maximizing economic efficiency and wealth. Corporate law scholars haven't yet heard the good...lpeproject.org

Today, @bearerfriend.bsky.social and @polcz.bsky.social argue their AI equity tax proposal both curbs AI risk and shows how creative tax policy can advance the Left's broader agenda.

What A Tax On AI Can Teach The LeftThe rise of AI demands legislative action to mitigate its many risks. But rather than follow the same old regulatory playbook, Congress should instead embrace creative tax policy.lpeproject.org

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!

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 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!

Weekly Roundup: July 10Fifteen of our favorite films on law and political economy, Jeff Gordon proposes an anti-entrenchment industrial policy, M. Sandhu makes the case against legislative primacy, Aslı Bâli revisits The…lpeproject.org

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Beyond Feasibility in Legal ScholarshipIn a moment of institutional unraveling and authoritarian threat, legal scholars and law review editors should resist the "Part IV" reflex and make space for bolder analyses, longer horizons…lpeproject.org

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

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.

Property, Sabotage, and the Origins of Anti-Left RepressionBetween 1917 and 1921, twenty-one states passed anti-criminal syndicalism laws. These laws, which were intended to help eliminate the Industrial Workers of the World, have largely faded from public…lpeproject.org

Today, Aslı Bâli argues that in this moment of deepening constitutional and geopolitical crises, the left must recover traditions that refused to separate democracy at home from anti-imperialism abroad. And no recent text has done this better than Aziz Rana's *The Constitutional Bind.*

Revisiting The Constitutional Bind during the InterregnumAs the country marks 250 years, the left faces two imperatives at once: confronting a constitutional order warped by judicial supremacy, and reorienting American foreign policy away from endless war.lpeproject.org

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

Against Legislative PrimacyOn this blog and elsewhere, Congress has recently been cast as a cure for our decrepit democracy. This push for legislative primacy is a mistake: it valorizes a deeply undemocratic institution…lpeproject.org