Watching de'aaron fox fumble the game away:
A man may leave Cowtown behind, believing he has escaped it. Yet the odor of that place clings to him, a reminder that some landscapes never release their hold on those who have passed through them.
Today, @wanshucong.bsky.social explains how significant parts of the global economy have long been governed through informal, political arrangements.
The week in review: @richardjoyce.bsky.social assesses Mark Carney’s speech at Davos, while Sarah Schindler and Kellen Zale discuss the abundance agenda’s anti-tenancy blindspot.
Plus, some hot new LPE pieces from around the web 🧵👇
"The anti-tenancy doctrine is so pervasive in part because it reflects a fundamental contradiction at the heart of American housing policy: we expect housing to function simultaneously as an investment asset and also to fulfill a basic human need for shelter."
James Brandt
The marginalization of international law under the second Trump administration has been a shock to the post-Cold War world order. Yet the impact of this development on the global economy has been far…
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Richard Joyce assesses Mark Carney's speech at Davos, while Sarah Schindler and Kellen Zale discuss the abundance agenda's anti-tenancy blindspot. Plus, Tanzil Chowdhury on legislative supremacy in…
Up on the NYC Policy Forum substack, Suzi Ragheb and Katherine Jin on how a nineteenth-century underground cable network could unlock internet access and affordability across NYC!
nycpolicyforum.substack.com/p/the-130-ye...
Apart from abandoning the “as if” of the United States’ role as a reliable guarantor of the system, Carney fails to grapple with the various “as ifs” on which neoliberalism has long depended. lpeproject.org/blog/keeping...
"The Canadian Prime Minister arrives at Davos. Not quite Nietzsche’s lantern-bearing madman running to the marketplace to announce the death of God, he nonetheless comes to shatter an illusion."
It also violates the Trafficking Victims Protection Act. A case about similar GEO Group practices in Colorado is finally going to trial this year (was filed in 2014!).
I wrote a bunch about GEO's forced labor policies and the litigation against them here scholar.law.colorado.edu/faculty-arti...
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"No lithium means no batteries, and so no electronic devices, and so no value to the labor of Apple product managers. But lithium miners are not paid in a way that reflects this necessity, because what is necessary is their collective labor, and they are paid one by one."
At the World Economic Forum in Davos, Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney was widely lauded for declaring the rules-based international order effectively dead and urging middle powers to build "
Today, Sarah Schindler and Kellen Zale argue that as policymakers pursue supply-side reforms to address rising housing costs, they must also confront a legal regime that affords tenants second-class status.
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Jonathon Booth
As policymakers pursue supply-side reforms to address rising housing costs, they must also confront a legal regime that affords tenants second-class status. Without confronting this anti-tenancy bias…
Today, Evan Behrle examines one of the oldest arguments for income inequality: that workers should be paid the value of their productive contribution.
What this argument misses, he argues, is that the size of any worker’s contribution is largely determined by what other workers do.
When defending income inequality, high-earners often appeal to an old left-wing idea: that workers are entitled to the fruits of their labor and should be paid the value of their productive…
Today, @frankpasquale.bsky.social contrasts Magnifica Humanitas, a vision of AI in service of peace and human flourishing, with an American administration governing AI by memes, chaos, and willful self-destruction.
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a glaring omission from much of the convo about the Delaney Hall labor and hunger strike imo is the fact that *these people shouldn't be laboring in the first place*
this is slavery, & even the 13th Amendment's 'punishment for a crime' exception doesn't apply!
ballsandstrikes.org/law-politics...
Pope Leo's Magnifica Humanitas offers a vision of AI guided by peace, dignity, and moral renewal. It stands in stark contrast to an American administration governing by meme, chaos…
At Davos, Mark Carney called on countries to abandon the fiction of the rules-based order.
Yet as @richardjoyce.bsky.social argues, all political systems require acting "as if" their premises are true. The real question is which fictions we choose to live by, and which we’re willing to remake.
Barred and Boujee aka Madiba Dennie
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At the World Economic Forum in Davos, Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney was widely lauded for declaring the rules-based international order effectively dead and urging middle powers to build "
