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This is the heart of it: deflection to "neutral" technological forces addressable as technocratic challenges, rather than the anomie of neoliberalism depriving the life prospects of millions, requiring structural change in the political economy of democratic market societies.

"The arc of the moral universe does not passively bend; it is actively bent. We bend it." bostonglobe.com/2024/01/14/opi… well said LPE@HLS fellow, @chika_o_okafor

That's why Charles Ponzi's Efficient Markets Hypothesis won him the Nobel Prize in Economics... jabberwocking.com/there-sure-are…

Sugar; debt peonage; intergenerational grinding poverty. Coca Cola & Pepsi. Just in time for my LPE class tomorrow, on trade and labor in global supply chains. nytimes.com/2024/03/24/wor…

Great set of thoughts. I'm most persuaded by @Elibietti and Sanjay Jolly, seeing this as normal statecraft in modern capitalist states: harnessing nationalism to advance domestic profit-reaping elites while diverting efforts from democratic or egalitarian public interventions.

Critical asymmetry: Republican will-to-power, aiming to shape public consciousness, while liberals aim to strengthen platforms' control of bad speech subject to US regulation, ignoring the near certainty of US authoritarian cycles in wielding that power.

the half paragraph before equally challenging and thought provoking for LPE scholarship.

New from Talha Syed and from me in Journal of Law and Political Economy: Reconstructing Class Analysis. Read here: escholarship.org/uc/item/3nw277….

The owl of Minerva spreads its wings only with the coming of the dusk.

Talha and my posts are complements: his a crystalline theoretical critique in a critical Marxian strand; mine a concrete working out of what LPE based on that kind of historically-specific institutional political economy would look like applied to Kessler's sole legal example.

collective nouns: a murder of crows, a parliament of owls, a crash of rhinoceroses, ... a confabulation of con men... nytimes.com/2024/12/12/wor…