@pluralistic outdoing himself. Happy Bastille Day! https://pluralistic.net/2023/07/14/making-good-trouble/#the-peoples-champion
Yochai Benkler
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@[email protected]: at long last the fundamental point: "A.G.I.ism is neoliberalism by other means." https://www.nytimes.com/2023/06/30/opinion/artificial-intelligence-danger.html
Part of what's galling about the NYT child labor story is how rational everyone. The parents who send their children because they need the remittances. The border policy that refuses to leave children in Mexico. The exploitative middlemen trying to make a buck. The subcontractors makers driven by cutthroat competition. The brands driven by the next quarterly results. That it is children merely strips away the illusion of choice that pervades the inhumanity of market imperatives for all.
NYT report on child labor in 2023 US. Major brands set up a system that allows them to exploit the most vulnerable workers behind a veil of willful blindness. A scandalous administration hurries them through into a Dickensian world. Hyper-exploitation is as much a part of the DNA of capitalism as innovation, growth and all that jazz. https://www.nytimes.com/2023/02/25/us/unaccompanied-migrant-child-workers-exploitation.html
I wrote a few thoughts on why the new casebook on Networks, Platforms, and Utilities is an excellent model for a LPE casebook and pedagogy.
https://www.yalejreg.com/topic/symposium-networks-platforms-utilities/
Well done @[email protected]; @Ganesh; @[email protected] and @[email protected]
https://www.yalejreg.com/topic/symposium-networks-platforms-utilities/
Well done @[email protected]; @Ganesh; @[email protected] and @[email protected]
John CoatesThis one study purporting to show positive effects on start-ups of #non-competes is behaviorally and legal-realistically implausible, as it treats a formal change in Michigan statutory law as if it were known, believed, and enforced in the two years before it was legislatively reversed.
https://www.philadelphiafed.org/-/media/frbp/assets/working-papers/2021/wp21-26.pdf
Thiemo FetzerFact 1: Without #austerity and without #FPTP, there would not have been an #EUReferendum to begin with.
Right wing commentators or right leaning political scientists have been attempting to dismiss my work, pushing distracting narratives. The key constituency that drove the #EUReferendum in favor of #Leave was a protest vote - and #austerity induced dislocations were the main driver of that vote.
I summarize my work here https://econtwitter.net/@fetzert/109348821390260124.
And here
https://twitter.com/fetzert/status/1091359096555667461?s=20&t=3gQsgEqILi4L-MtM1xm6mg
Now...
Thiemo Fetzer (@[email protected])
Attached: 1 image Did #austerity cause #Brexit? In the past weeks there was much talk in the UK on a return of #austerity. I am a Prof of Economics at Warwick University and I wrote a paper in 2018 that shows how #austerity was instrumental to bringing about #Brexit. This is a means of #introduction on here. Open Access ➡️ https://doi.org/10.1257/aer.20181164 The paper shows that #austerity was a pivotal driver of #Brexit result. But that is only half the story: most likely there wouldnt have been an #EUReferendum ...
LPEblogToday, in our final roundup of the year, Caroline & James highlight some of their favorite posts from 2022.
https://lpeproject.org/blog/2022-yearly-roundup-editors-picks-part-2/
In 17th place, we have the first entry from our wildly popular inflation series, with @raulcarrillo interviewing Darrick Hamilton: "Inflation, Race, & Labor."
https://lpeproject.org/blog/inflation-race-labor-an-interview-with-darrick-hamilton/
In at #14, an entry from our week celebrating a special issue of the SAQ on Law and the Critique of Capitalism: Amy Kapczynski & Wendy Brown on Democracy.
https://lpeproject.org/blog/amy-kapczynski-and-wendy-brown-democracy/
