Oh I had forgotten about that! Always snuck up on us.

(Also Cambridge Commons Playground is a great spot for a pic!)

Congrats Niko! Can't wait to read it

Me holding a copy of a book that I wrote with Daphna Renan! Supremacy: How Rule by the Court Replaced Government by the People

Look what just arrived!! Advance proofs of a real book!! One that actual bookstores are preordering!!!

wwnorton.com/books/978132...

This Wednesday! 👇

wait till they figure out how much faster the airplane, a machine invented by Orville and Wilbur Wright in 1903, can traverse the same distance

Interesting, and honestly I have no idea: that's a chapter of Phillips, Girard and Brown's book that I never read

I agree with this. I also think it goes very directly against the Marxist accounts of this

Just another note: my understanding is that a ton of work relationships were considered somewhat special cases. The sheet variety of master-servant/apprenticeship statutes is astounding. Often hyper-specialised.

Weekly Roundup: April 17 Ben Kaufman discusses our broken banking bargain, and Vincent Joralemon reflects on the neglected class dimension of addictive platform design. Plus, a call for (your!) hot new LPE scholarship…

The week in review: @kennybauf.bsky.social discusses our broken banking bargain, and Vincent Joralemon reflects on the neglected class dimension of addictive platform design.

Plus, a call for scholarship, upcoming events, and hot new LPE pieces from around the web! 🧵

Title of a previous edition of "Some of the Best New LPE and LPE-Adjacent Scholarship"

Did you or a scholar whose work you love have an article accepted this academic year? If so, let us know!

Later this month, we’ll highlight some of the hottest LPE and LPE-adjacent work from the past two cycles. Send nominations to managingeditor@lpeblog.org. Self-noms highly encouraged!

Current ScholarshipTragedy of the horizon on steroids: the green transition and credit ratings Zsófia Barta

📣New scholarship from @bartazsofi.bsky.social on how credit rating agencies (Fitch, Moody’s, S&P) discount long-term climate risks to preserve their epistemic authority - preventing the reallocation of capital away from carbon-intensive assets.
justmoney.org/tragedy-hori...

I think this is putting a finger on something important. These guys want their money to give them a claim on human labor and its products directly, without the ongoing relationships through which productive labor actually takes place.

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Malfunction in coding makes robots chase humans. A group of strangers find themselves stuck in an abandoned apt building, entirely surrounded by robots. One of them is a hacker who learns that the malfunction was intentionally put there by evil global conglomerate seeking to take over the world!

‘Everyone is Replaceable’: Death Rattles Oregon Amazon Facility A worker died at Amazon’s Troutdale warehouse last week. Employees were told to look away.

For more than a week, Amazon has managed to keep a death at its Troutdale, Oregon, facility out of public view.

Workers I spoke to are pissed.

Basic Econ is dangerous, because it sounds like it explains much more than it actually does. This allows pundits with minimal policy chops or creativity to sound credible on a whole host of issues.

Banks Have Abandoned Their Public Purpose At the core of the U.S. banking system is the public's choice to delegate money-creation privileges to private actors. But what is the public getting in exchange? An ever-swelling suite of predatory…

Today, @kennybauf.bsky.social explains how banks are failing to provide basic services, instead pushing predatory credit products that gouge people at every turn.

It’s time to ask whether public support for banks should come with real obligations to serve the public.

Can This Chaotic Brooklyn Plaza Be Car-Free? Mamdani Says Yes.

Halleluljah. Hallelujah. www.nytimes.com/026/04/13/ny...

Oh not the first time! Or the last!

Why are you upstate? Please don't say Greyhound layover, because I've done that in Albany too many times!

Does anyone want to put a conference stream together (on law, bodies and medicine?) with me for Critical Legal Conference in London, UK? Conference is 9th to 11th of September 2026.

AnnouncementOnline Workshop: Money in the Digital Age with Prof. Benjamin Geva (Apr. 22) Evolution and Future of Money in Canada: Implications for the Digital Age, Legal and Regulatory Perspective

📢 Join us! Just Money is hosting an online workshop on "Money in the Digital Age" with Prof. Benjamin Geva (Osgoode Hall Law School).
🗓 Apr. 22, 2026
⏰ 12:00 PM ET
💻 Online (Zoom)

More information and reservation link : justmoney.org/online-works...

Mark Carney knows the answer to this question...

Star Trek The Next Generation scene. We're on the D in the transporter room looking at the transporter pad. We see Chief Miles Edward O'Brien, who can skydive w/out a parachute by sneezing jussssst before he lands, standing next to William T. Riker, both in uniform. They're holding up an old piece of NASA ship wreckage. Maybe a 5ftx4ft section of paneling with burnt and charred edges with the US flag painted on and the NASA logo in red. No caption.

There's a handful of tickets left for Osgoode's Annual Constitutional Cases Conf (online also available). A fantastic set of speakers will unpack the recent jurisprudence.

Jeremy Waldron will deliver the Laskin Lecture, "Time now to write it in the books of law".

Join us: yorku.ca/osgoode/conc...

Institute for New Economic Thinking Further your understanding of the economy and find an open environment for generating and discussing economic thought.

Great piece by Chris Desan about Fed Independence. She looks NOT at the relationship btwn central banks and elected governments generally, but specifically argues that power over money belongs to the legislature, not the executive: www.ineteconomics.org/perspectives...

I've thought about attending this conference so many years, but the timing is just terrible. Especially if you have a family and commute for work... :/

"What on earth is going on?" is maybe the only appropriate opening for a call for papers rn

@nathantankus.bsky.social was all over this