neoliberalism – LPE Project https://lpeproject.org The Law and Political Economy Project Tue, 15 Jul 2025 13:14:19 +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 neoliberalism – LPE Project https://lpeproject.org 32 32 The Same Script: Value-Based Payment, Managed Care, and Neoliberalism https://lpeproject.org/blog/the-same-script-value-based-payment-managed-care-and-neoliberalism/ Tue, 15 Jul 2025 11:00:00 +0000 https://lpeproject.org/?p=11722 This post is part of a series on the corporate consolidation and financialization of health care. Read the rest of the posts here. ** ** ** In 2010, the Affordable Care Act (ACA) ushered in a new governing consensus in health care policy. To address persistently high costs and poor outcomes, policymakers sought to break from the “fee-for-service” payment system, which reimburses physicians for...

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]]> Beyond The Ballot: Building The Movement Democrats Won’t https://lpeproject.org/blog/beyond-the-ballot-building-the-movement-democrats-wont/ Wed, 09 Jul 2025 11:00:00 +0000 https://lpeproject.org/?p=11706 Six years ago this month, in the middle of the first Trump administration, I quit my job and launched a campaign for Congress against a Democratic incumbent in the city where I was born and raised – Columbus, Ohio. I ran because Donald Trump posed a clear threat to the stability of the United States, and I knew fending off his growing Make America Great Again (MAGA) movement would take a different...

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]]> A Dialysis Duopoly: How Public Funding Entrenched Private Power https://lpeproject.org/blog/a-dialysis-duopoly-how-public-funding-entrenched-private-power/ Tue, 08 Jul 2025 11:00:00 +0000 https://lpeproject.org/?p=11698 This post is part of a series on the corporate consolidation and financialization of health care. Read the rest of the posts here. ** ** ** For the half-million people in the U.S. with kidney failure, survival rests in the hands of two powerful corporations—DaVita and Fresenius. Together, these companies control over 70% of the outpatient dialysis market. But the history of dialysis isn’t a simple...

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]]> Consolidating Care: A Symposium on Medicine and Market Power https://lpeproject.org/blog/consolidating-care-a-symposium-on-medicine-and-market-power/ Tue, 01 Jul 2025 11:00:00 +0000 https://lpeproject.org/?p=11681 This post introduces a series on the corporate consolidation and financialization of health care. Read the rest of the posts here. ** ** ** When Luigi Mangione fatally shot UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson this past December, the internet erupted with declarations of solidarity and anxious calls for condemnation. His vigilante campaign against corporate greed, and subsequent heroization...

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]]> The Tax Struggle and Renewable Power https://lpeproject.org/blog/the-tax-struggle-and-renewable-power/ Mon, 16 Jun 2025 11:00:00 +0000 https://lpeproject.org/?p=11640 This post is part of a symposium on Sandeep Vaheesan’s Democracy in Power: A History of Electrification in the United States. Read the rest of the posts here. *** Tax policy has become a key battleground for federal climate policy in the United States, a fact that is especially evident as the Trump administration and its allies in Congress work to terminate much of President Biden’s signature...

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]]> Yardsticking It to the Man, Then and Now https://lpeproject.org/blog/yardsticking-it-to-the-man-then-and-now/ Mon, 09 Jun 2025 11:00:00 +0000 https://lpeproject.org/?p=11615 Democracy in Power, Sandeep Vaheesan argues that New Deal rural electrification efforts can serve as a model for public power in today’s energy system. There are, however, important differences between the political economy of rural electrification and that of today’s climate crisis. Understanding these distinctions can help us be clear-eyed about the political hurdles facing modern public power movements.]]> This post is part of a symposium on Sandeep Vaheesan’s Democracy in Power: A History of Electrification in the United States. Read the rest of the posts here. *** In the 1930s, President Franklin Delano Roosevelt and like-minded thinkers advanced the idea of publicly owned utilities as a “yardstick” against which private utilities’ performance could be measured. When private utilities fell short...

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]]> Why Public Ownership? https://lpeproject.org/blog/why-public-ownership/ Tue, 03 Jun 2025 11:00:00 +0000 https://lpeproject.org/?p=11613 This post is part of a symposium on Sandeep Vaheesan’s Democracy in Power: A History of Electrification in the United States. Read the rest of the posts here. *** Public ownership has long been a rallying cry for many on the left. Historically, that cry typically focused on the means of production of commodities—for what was capitalism if not a social form organized around private ownership of...

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]]> Democratic Abundance https://lpeproject.org/blog/democratic-abundance/ Mon, 02 Jun 2025 11:00:00 +0000 https://lpeproject.org/?p=11612 Democracy in Power, by tracing the history of electrification during the New Deal and offering a blueprint for a publicly-led path to decarbonization.]]> This post introduces a symposium on Sandeep Vaheesan’s Democracy in Power: A History of Electrification in the United States. Read replies from Brett Christophers, Shelley Welton, and William Boyd here. *** I am honored to kick off this symposium and to be in conversation with a group of illustrious scholars. In writing Democracy in Power, my aim was to tell the now-mostly forgotten history of...

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]]> Reckoning with the Reckoning in Higher Ed https://lpeproject.org/blog/reckoning-with-the-reckoning-in-higher-ed/ Tue, 13 May 2025 11:00:00 +0000 https://lpeproject.org/?p=11539 The Trump administration has launched a wholesale ideological and fiscal attack on higher education, holding federal funds hostage while demanding a ransom in the way of wide-ranging curricular and disciplinary changes. At the time of this writing, Columbia University has capitulated to its recent shakedown, but Harvard’s recent refusal to follow suit has inspired other institutions to speak out...

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]]> A Dignity-Based Approach to Debt https://lpeproject.org/blog/a-dignity-based-approach-to-debt/ Thu, 23 Jan 2025 11:00:00 +0000 https://lpeproject.org/?p=11188 Many Americans have no choice but to take on debt to survive: to access necessary medical care, a basic education, essential transportation, and to cover other basic needs in the midst of a housing affordability crisis. And once they’ve fallen into debt, many find it nearly impossible to claw their way out of it. One out of every three adult Americans has a debt that has been turned over to a...

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