"and he just…he tweeted it out." @jamesgoodwin.bsky.social

Yeah, as far as I can tell, his position seems to be: "I don't hate dogs, I just think its fine if they are euthanized because poor people are forced to surrender them in order to secure housing." Pretty gross stuff.

I'm confused: all of the comments on twitter are about not bringing dogs in grocery stores, but the opening of the post focuses entirely on laws restricting discrimination by landlords. These are entirely separate issues! Does he have a cogent argument here, or is this just classic Yglesias slop?

Surveillance Pricing: Exploiting Information Asymmetries For over a century, fixed prices have made markets more transparent. Surveillance pricing threatens to reverse that progress by allowing corporations to secretly tailor prices using personal data.

Today, Patrick Lin explains how surveillance pricing is making it easier for corporations to exploit consumers, how states are starting to push back against these practices, and why those efforts are running into First Amendment challenges.

Please help share the word ( 🔁 ) that the LPE Blog is on the hunt for hot new LPE and LPE-adjacent scholarship!

Gondor calls for scholarship. Will you answer?

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! 🧵

Tax the Rich | NYC Policy Forum A Tax Day discussion with Mayor Zohran Mamdani and economists Joseph Stiglitz and Gabriel Zucman

“New York can afford to lose a couple of billionaires, but it cannot afford to lose its working class.”

The Tax Day discussion between Mayor Zohran Mamdani and economists Joseph Stiglitz and Gabriel Zucman now up on our substack!!

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The Class Politics of the Feed By targeting addictive design features of social media platforms, K.G.M. v. Meta marks a breakthrough in product liability law. Yet the case also reveals a neglected class dimension: the harms of…

Great piece. Remarkable to me how politics have come back around to critiquing corporate invasion of childhood attention, this time with conservatives often joining along. Time to revisit the legacy and the concept of a "National Nanny", methinks.

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Pretty damning that most tech executives (like most affluent people) generally try to protect their own children from the products that made them rich.

I will simply never recover from reading this sentence:

"The products these shady deals produce are startling. In one example, a company was caught pushing online loans at 'up to 189% APR' for people to use to buy puppies."

How Corporations Hijacked Identity Politics Over the past fifty years, corporate advocates have co-opted the language and tactics of modern social movements to graft identity-based attributes onto the corporate entity. These new…

Corporations have weaponized the rhetoric of identity politics to shield themselves. By hijacking liberal ideals of equality and freedom, this piece argues they’ve twisted doctrines to serve profit over public interest.

By @kfrydl.bsky.social in @lpeproject.bsky.social

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The Student Loan Conjuncture While student loan repayment has resumed, stability is an illusion. Beneath the surface, mounting delinquency, administrative chaos, and the potential dismantling of federal loan management point to a...

Today, @lookheron.bsky.social examines the political roots of the crisis of higher education finance.

The Student Loan Conjuncture While student loan repayment has resumed, stability is an illusion. Beneath the surface, mounting delinquency, administrative chaos, and the potential dismantling of federal loan management point to a...

I'm in The Blog today on the turmoil in higher education finance. 🧵

The Trump Admin is simultaneously trying to get things back to normal (pre-COVID status quo, but more punitive) and to dismantle the whole system (selling off the portfolio, closing Dept of Ed)

lpeproject.org/blog/the-stu...

Guilty by Solidarity The conviction of Anti-ICE protestors on terrorism charges represents a dangerous new front in the Trump administration's war against the left. Yet it also highlights a longer history: over the past…

You should read everything Zohra Ahmed writes, but also & especially this post abt the criminalization of leftist solidarity by the Trump Admin through the use of material support laws & RICO (laws that are admittedly pernicious in most contexts but esp here)

lpeproject.org/blog/guilty-...

Guilt by Solidarity The conviction of Anti-ICE protestors on terrorism charges represents a dangerous new front in the Trump administration's war against the left. Yet it also highlights a longer history: over the past…

Today, @azohra.bsky.social explains how the recent conviction of Anti-ICE protestors represents a dangerous and increasingly common form of guilt by association that is antithetical to collective political action.

I wrote about the Prairieland trial, the first to pilot the White House’s theory that antifa is a vector for terrorism. The case is a dangerous escalation in the admin's war against the left. Yet it also highlights a longer history...
lpeproject.org/blog/guilty-...

Here's how I feel about waiting until September for this book:

Weekly Roundup: April 3 Ruthy Gourevitch and Jacob Udell on financial distress in the rental market, Alaa Hajyahia and Helen Zhao on the scourge known as the Jones Act, and Kathleen Frydl on how corporations hijacked…

Week in review: @ruthygourevitch.bsky.social and Jacob Udell on financial distress in the rental market, Alaa Hajyahia and Helen Zhao on the scourge known as the Jones Act, and @kfrydl.bsky.social on how corporations hijacked identity politics.

Plus, LPE nuggets from around the web 🧵👇

If you have a facebook account and want to help this wonderful dog (our most recent foster), please boost his post in the local SF group: www.facebook.com/groups/13646...

A good lesson here for all public programs.

First, @jamesbrandt.bsky.social is an angel for the good work he does with all of these dogs.

Second, if you live in or near Santa Fe, for the love of god ADOPT AUGIE!!! That face and those ears!!

Thanks Rick! And really, if people have a facebook account, the best thing they can do is click through and like my post there.

In small town America, it weirdly is our town square. (Santa Fe has 100,000 residents; the big local facebook group has 70,000 people in it 😱)

A cute cattle dog - pit mix wearing polar bear jammies and smiling.

This is my buddy Augie. He’s at the Santa Fe Animal Shelter and has been waiting 300+ days for his forever home.

Earlier today I posted about him in the big local Facebook group. If you have a second, I’d really appreciate a like there to help boost engagement: www.facebook.com/share/p/1AkX...

Some interesting historical nuggets in here for the LPE Congress crowd. 👀👀

Three Ways the Public Grocery Experiment Could Fail | Errol Schweizer & Raj Patel How private operators, procurement, and budget-neutrality could threaten a public grocery store pilot before it has a chance to prove itself

Today, @grocerynerd.bsky.social & @rajpatel.org discuss how private operators, procurement, and budget-neutrality could threaten a public grocery store pilot before it has a chance to prove itself and how the Mamdani Admin can avoid these pitfalls!

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"In Puerto Rico, which imports more than 80% of its food, the Act functions as an effective tariff of roughly 30% on mainland goods, a burden that falls hardest on an island whose median household income is roughly half the mainland average."

A Century of Colonial Tariffs Waived overnight in response to a crisis for capital but maintained in the face of protest from former and current territories, the Jones Act has a colonial logic that is impossible to ignore.

Today, Alaa Hajyahia and Helen Zhao trace the Jones Act’s colonial origins, describe its ongoing economic harms, and explain how this law, reviled by both the right and the left, has survived for over 100 years.

An image of the TOC of a journal issue on law and capitalism.

cool new journal issue alert! second installment from the law and capitalism conference at Duke. I have a piece in it - can't wait to read the others. lcp.law.duke.edu