Counterrevolution – LPE Project https://lpeproject.org The Law and Political Economy Project Mon, 20 Jan 2025 18:59:15 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.8.1 https://lpeproject.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/08/cropped-LPE_Favicon_512px_BlackBG-450x450.png Counterrevolution – LPE Project https://lpeproject.org 32 32 The Role of Coercion in the Neoliberal Economy https://lpeproject.org/blog/the-role-of-coercion-in-the-neoliberal-economy/ Mon, 21 Oct 2024 11:00:00 +0000 https://lpeproject.org/?p=10870 This post concludes a symposium on Melinda Cooper’s Counterrevolution: Extravagance and Austerity in Public Finance. Read the rest of the symposium here. ** ** ** In Melinda Cooper’s narrative of extravagance and austerity in public finance, one of the most powerful organizing forces on austerity-side of the ledger were the taxpayers who rebelled against the U.S. government’s rather modest efforts...

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]]> The Unlikely Victors https://lpeproject.org/blog/the-unlikely-victors/ Mon, 23 Sep 2024 11:00:00 +0000 https://lpeproject.org/?p=10740 This post is part of a symposium on Melinda Cooper’s Counterrevolution: Extravagance and Austerity in Public Finance. Read the rest of the symposium here. ** ** ** “Could things have turned out differently?” That is the question driving Melinda Cooper’s brilliant account of the people and policies that built the neoliberal state. It is an important one and one too rarely asked by scholars of the...

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]]> Making Families Great Again https://lpeproject.org/blog/making-families-great-again/ Mon, 16 Sep 2024 11:00:00 +0000 https://lpeproject.org/?p=10690 This post is part of a symposium on Melinda Cooper’s Counterrevolution: Extravagance and Austerity in Public Finance. Read the rest of the symposium here. ** ** ** When people send sentimental cards or hang dubious wall art proclaiming “families are forever,” little do they know how right they are. Families are forever because, as Melinda Cooper reminds us in Counterrevolution, “[t]here is no...

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]]> Turning the Fiscal State on its Head https://lpeproject.org/blog/turning-the-fiscal-state-on-its-head/ Mon, 09 Sep 2024 11:00:00 +0000 https://lpeproject.org/?p=10610 This post is part of a symposium on Melinda Cooper’s Counterrevolution: Extravagance and Austerity in Public Finance. Read the rest of the symposium here. ** ** ** Melinda Cooper’s fascinating new book offers a much-needed examination of the Virginia School of constitutional economics. Associated most closely with the work of James M. Buchanan, the Virginia School advocated a range of restrictions...

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]]> The Rise of Neoliberal Public Finance https://lpeproject.org/blog/the-rise-of-neoliberal-finance/ Mon, 02 Sep 2024 11:00:00 +0000 https://lpeproject.org/?p=10622 This post introduces a symposium on Counterrevolution: Extravagance and Austerity in Public Finance. Read the rest of the symposium here. ** ** ** How did the American state come to be so extravagant in its recourse to fiat money creation and public debt issuance, yet so selectively austere in its public spending choices? This question, which lies at the heart of my recent book...

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