LPE Project

With August around the corner, the Blog is officially on hiatus until the new school year. But before we hit the beach (library) and catch some rays (plan our fall schedule), let us share our most read posts of 2026 so far, say a fond farewell to our depa

I have, for a while now, considered myself an LPE person. More specifically, I've considered myself someone at the edges of LPE. This is partly ideological, as I'm a Marxist and LPE is a non-Marxist space - by which I mean it is not exclusively reserved f

I have to admit that it seems odd to see the charge of class reductionism thrown around in a debate between scholars, none of whom seem unduly committed to the Marxist tradition, to which this accusation is typically attached. If we want to have an argume

Since we missed you last Friday, let's catch up on the past two weeks: Last Monday, Madison Condon and Luke Herrine explained how modern Law and Economics scholars continue to overlook legal scholarship that draws upon non-neoclassical economics and, to h

More than sixty years after the enactment of Title VII of the Civil Rights Act, access to work and its rewards remains dramatically unequal in the United States. Women make up nearly two-thirds of the workers in the forty lowest-paying jobs in the country

In 1989 the Columbia Law Review published "Contractual Freedom in Corporate Law," a collection of influential essays drawn from a symposium held the prior year. The participants, which included such American corporate law luminaries as Lucian Bebchuk, Fra

The AI goliath is here. OpenAI and Anthropic have each announced trillion-dollar fall IPOs. A central expectation underwriting those valuations is a vast transfer of wealth from labor to capital. AI companies' models' impressive capabilities will be deplo

There are many paths to LPE, but one of the most common starts from a frustration with law-and-economics' ("L&E") approaches to policy problems and a search for alternatives. Those who walk this path-including both of us-often wrestle with the same questi

Since we missed you last Friday, let's catch up on the past two weeks: Last Monday, Jeff Gordon explained how industrial policy tends to create large concentrated winners, foreclosing the competition it ultimately needs to succeed. To escape this dilemma,

Between 1917 and 1921, twenty-one states and two territories passed criminal syndicalism laws. Conceived in a moment of widespread labor militancy, political radicalism, and wartime state repression, criminal syndicalism laws were presented as a tool for