Free Market Family – LPE Project https://lpeproject.org The Law and Political Economy Project Thu, 27 May 2021 02:02:12 +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 Free Market Family – LPE Project https://lpeproject.org 32 32 Family Choice and the American Dream https://lpeproject.org/blog/family-choice-and-the-american-dream/ Thu, 27 May 2021 11:00:00 +0000 https://lpeproject.org/?p=5667 This post is part of a symposium on Maxine Eichner’s book, The Free Market Family. The Free-Market Family is a much-needed account of the crisis facing American families in the twenty-first century. Maxine Eichner argues that this crisis is not an inevitable fact of post-industrial democracy, pointing to other wealthy democracies that have supported families to enable them to meet their members’...

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]]> Free Meals, “Free Markets”, and Infrastructure for Democracy https://lpeproject.org/blog/free-meals-free-markets-and-infrastructure-for-democracy/ Wed, 26 May 2021 11:00:00 +0000 https://lpeproject.org/?p=5666 This post is part of a symposium on Maxine Eichner’s book, The Free Market Family. In 1969, the Black Panther party’s free breakfast programs served 20,000 children across 19 cities, “one of the biggest and baddest things we ever did,” as a former Panther activist reflected. The Panthers added food security to their initial focus on anti-Black police violence as a matter of survival as well as...

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]]> Universalism and Anti-Racism in Family Support https://lpeproject.org/blog/universalism-and-anti-racism-in-family-support/ Tue, 25 May 2021 11:00:00 +0000 https://lpeproject.org/?p=5665 This post is part of a symposium on Maxine Eichner’s book, The Free Market Family. Max Eichner’s The Free Market Family is a stunning and timely book. It is rigorous, persuasive, and understandable. Its breadth is astounding, and its solutions, with very few exceptions, are practical and wise. And for the wonky among us, it has more data to support every proposition than any obsessive reader of...

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]]> What is the “Free Market Family” and How Can We End It? https://lpeproject.org/blog/what-is-the-free-market-family-and-how-can-we-end-it/ Mon, 24 May 2021 11:00:00 +0000 https://lpeproject.org/?p=5662 This post is part of a symposium on Maxine Eichner’s book, The Free Market Family. The US has long been an outlier when it comes to how it expects families to provide the conditions, cash, and services their members need to thrive. Other wealthy democracies treat government as an integral partner in ensuring that families can provide what their members need: they guarantee paid parental leave so...

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