"What snow squall?" Say the emerging strawberries
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Sanjukta Paul
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Academic (previously real) lawyer @UMich interested in labor, antitrust, economic policy, legal & economic history, etc. Also interested in gardening/composting, botany/ecology, fantasy literature & folklore.
LawprofblawgIf you teach medieval english literature and you don't dress like this, can you be a good professor?
Joey FishkinThe #studentloan cases at the Supreme Court today purport to be about who has the power to forgive student loans; the conservative Justices say they are protecting Congress's authority.
It's the opposite. They're out to destroy Congress's authority to enact laws that give the executive branch flexibility and discretion, e.g. to respond to emergencies.
The branch of government they're actually empowering is themselves—the Supreme Court—not coincidentally the branch their party now controls.
I was just on AirTalk with Larry Mantle here in Southern CA talking about these cases and the other guest, conservative law professor Josh Blackman, said something I think is true, which is that this "major questions doctrine" that purports to safeguard Congressional authority is really, at bottom, about the "nondelegation doctrine."
The nondelegation doctrine, part of right-wing constitutionalism since the 1930s, is about disabling Congress from delegating power to the executive branch.
Just spoke to a customer service person named Angelo. Thus got to say "Angelo you're an angel" 😇
... And by the time I got to the end of writing that I realized exactly what I would say to a student or a friend. (Also, this is for a friendly workshop: if I have to circulate with one subsection still undone I can, though I'd really rather not. Will probably instead write a version of that section that can be expanded later)
Need to turn in a chapter draft by Thursday- Friday at latest- and have the next few days off actively teaching (so it's critical I take advantage of them either way). Torn between starting with the 2 remaining sections of the chapter: one I feel inspired and ready to write; the other I'm for some reason dreading. Feel like I should get the 2nd one 'out of the way' first ... Permission to start with the one I'm inspired on instead??
I'm not sure there's a single better way to wake up than to the sound of rain
B. didn't advance his ideas in an academic style so people lose sight of the quite distinctive & robust, if implicit, theory of markets in his work.
He supported trade associations as an alternative to big, dominant firms: He understood coordination is a constant--but also didn't believe coordination necessarily *eliminates* competition.
That idea is hard to grasp from the marginalist, unidimensional perspective on competition! It's either there or it isn't; institutional detail disappears.
Competition is not only housed alongside specific forms of coordination--sort of like the intertwined muscular and fascia systems of the body--but also takes qualitatively distinct forms, about which legal & social choices present themselves.
This is not a conception of competition that fits with the uni-dimensional Marshallian idea of competition that was gaining ground at the time- but had hardly yet won the day. (It did match the labor institutionalists' idea of competition.)