All articles from Law and Political Economy
Market Governance in Trumpworld
Over the past year, the much-touted right-wing embrace of anti-monopolism has been reduced to a distant memory. What has emerged instead is a personalist form of market governance, where regulatory au
How Feminists Transformed the Law and Science of AIDS
Veena Dubal interviews Aziza Ahmed about the exclusion of women from early AIDS definitions, the feminist lawyers and activists who transformed the government's response to the epidemic, and the adver
Weekly Roundup: Feb 27
Sophina Clark on work-spreading as a non-reformist reform, Jason Jackson on the moral orders of capitalist legitimacy, and Amy Cohen on a potential post-moral turn in American capitalism. Plus, Lenore
Capital Without Moral Cover?
Jason Jackson's Traders, Speculators, and Captains of Industry argues that capitalist societies develop a moral hierarchy of market actors, enabling certain firms to position their interests as good f
Moral Orders of Capitalist Legitimacy
In today’s seemingly deglobalizing economy, policymakers across the world are in a quandary over how to regulate foreign firms. Should policymakers prevent foreign firms from attaining dominant market
Regulating Hours, Dismantling Work
In recent decades, work hours have sharply diverged: high-wage workers are logging more time on the job, while low-wage workers face shrinking hours. Rather than trying to fix this imbalance by creati
Weekly Roundup: Feb 20
Victor Pickard on the American media polycrisis and Mariana Pargendler on Brazil’s forgotten legal innovation. Plus, a fellowship in constitutional law and history, a new report on workplace democracy
When Workers Pierce the Corporate Veil: Brazil’s Forgotten Innovation
In the early 20th century, foreign companies operating in Brazil would extract profits while using thinly capitalized subsidiaries to directly employ their workers. When things went wrong, workers wer