Classcrits X: Mobilizing for Resistance, Solidarity and Justice
Nov. 10-11, 2017
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This blog is the public manifestation of the ClassCrits Project. The blog focuses on law and economic inequality from a critical legal perspective. Supported by the University at Buffalo School of Law, participants in the ClassCrits Project - and this blog in particular - hope to start a discussion that puts economic inequality at the center rather than at the margins of mainstream law. [Read More]
Category Archives: corporate power
New AAUP guidelines on academic-business ties: more Field Notes on the Political Economy of Academia
Kudos to classcrits colleague Risa L. Lieberwitz, Cornell ILR and labor law scholar, for her work with AAUP on new draft guidelines governing academic conflicts of interest and integrity, quoted in the Chronicle of Higher Education, Ambitious AAUP Effort to … Continue reading
Posted in corporate power, Education, Financial Crisis, Heterodox Economics, Law Schools, Legal Theory, Political Economic of Academia
Tagged aaup, Academic Integrity, Conflicts of Interest, Disclosure, Fracking, Gerald Epstein, law and economics, Martha T Mccluskey, PERI, Risa L Lieberwitz
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Distinguishing science from “market” power? Field notes on the political economy of academia
It’s become common wisdom in the U.S. that non-transparent big money largely drives elections, legislatures, regulatory agencies, and much of the judicial system, eroding the public trust and reinforcing perceptions that law and politics, as well as economics, operates largely … Continue reading
Posted in corporate power, Education, Free market ideology, Heterodox Economics, Legal Theory, Morality and Economics, politics
Tagged Charles Ferguson, history of economics playground, INET, Inside Job, Institute for New Economic Thinking, Martha McCluskey, Predator Nation, SUNY, Tiago Mata
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Call for Papers and Participation in ClassCrits V: From Madison to Zuccotti Park: Confronting Class and Reclaiming the American Dream
This workshop, the fifth meeting of ClassCrits, takes on class and the American dream as its theme. The most quintessentially American trait may be our capacity to look past current misfortune and imagine a brighter future. Americans love a “rags … Continue reading
Photoessay: Occupy Oakland, 11/2/2011
A couple of snapshots of the “general strike” day. The mood in the crowd was peaceful and mellow and the smell of pot was everywhere (this is Oaksterdam, after all). In contrast to what the New York Times has reported … Continue reading
ClassCrits involved in Fed. Reserve Reform Initiative
Kudos to Timothy Canova (Chapman Univ. Law) and heterodox economist friends of ClassCrits who’ve been tapped for a committee to advise Sen. Bernie Sanders on crafting legislation to reform the Federal Reserve. Canova will join Gerald Epstein of the U.Mass. … Continue reading
Ain’t You Got a Right
…To the Tree of Life? Rehearsing this refrain for a benefit concert last weekend, choir director (and educator and community organizer extraordinaire) Jane Sapp urged us to sing out against the budget cuts falling on so many life-sustaining programs across … Continue reading
Lochner in China
By Frank Pasquale In the book Will the Boat Sink the Water? The Life of China’s Peasants, Chen Guidi and Wu Chuntao conclude that “the edifice of China’s industry is built from the flesh and blood of toiling peasants, and … Continue reading
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The Death of Outrage
by Frank Pasquale In his fifth appearance on Doug Henwood’s program “Behind the News,” Matt Taibbi described two of his recent articles on law enforcement and government subsidies for the banking industry. Someone writing about modern finance is always on … Continue reading
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Make Wall Street Pay? Yes We Can petition!
In the spirit of taking back the power that has so movingly arisen in Egypt and Madison, Julie Matthaei and the US Economic Solidarity Network invite you to sign and circulate the petition below. YES WE CAN MAKE WALL STREET … Continue reading
Black and Branded
A recent article in the Atlanta Post, “How Fast Food Companies ‘Super-Size’ African Americans,” features comments by Andrea Freeman, a teaching fellow at California Western School of Law (and, it must be admitted, a former student of mine) who argues … Continue reading
Posted in corporate power, markets and group identity
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