Anti-Oligarchy Constitution – LPE Project https://lpeproject.org The Law and Political Economy Project Tue, 25 Oct 2022 16:22:42 +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 Anti-Oligarchy Constitution – LPE Project https://lpeproject.org 32 32 Reconstituting Political and Economic Democracy for the 21st Century https://lpeproject.org/blog/reconstituting-political-and-economic-democracy-for-the-21st-century/ Thu, 07 Jul 2022 11:03:00 +0000 https://lpeproject.org/?p=7205 This post concludes our symposium on The Anti-Oligarchy Constitution, a new book by Joseph Fishkin and William E. Forbath. Read the rest of the symposium here. *** Liberals and Democratic leaders are finally coming around to the idea that, for the survival and flourishing of the republic, we must resuscitate the labor movement through administrative and legislative action. This had not really been...

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]]> Dobbs, Anti-Oligarchy, and the Problem of History https://lpeproject.org/blog/dobbs-anti-oligarchy-and-the-problem-of-history/ Wed, 06 Jul 2022 11:05:00 +0000 https://lpeproject.org/?p=7196 This post is part of a symposium on The Anti-Oligarchy Constitution, a new book by Joseph Fishkin and William E. Forbath. Read the rest of the symposium here. *** Joey Fishkin and Willy Forbath have written a powerful and much needed book on the long anti-oligarchic constitutional tradition in the United States. Their book calls on the left to abandon the rear-guard defense of the New Deal...

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]]> Procedural Political Economy https://lpeproject.org/blog/procedural-political-economy/ Wed, 27 Apr 2022 11:00:00 +0000 https://lpeproject.org/?p=6871 This post is part of a symposium on The Anti-Oligarchy Constitution, a new book by Joseph Fishkin and William E. Forbath. Read the rest of the symposium here. *** In Fishkin & Forbath’s dazzling book, courts are thorns in the side of the democracy-of-opportunity tradition. As they tell it, claims about what the Constitution demands for our economic life were largely advanced in Congress in the...

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]]> Democracy, Bureaucracy, and Rights https://lpeproject.org/blog/democracy-bureaucracy-and-rights/ Mon, 25 Apr 2022 11:00:00 +0000 https://lpeproject.org/?p=6865 This post is part of a symposium on The Anti-Oligarchy Constitution, a new book by Joseph Fishkin and William E. Forbath. Read the rest of the symposium here. *** It is not true that the U.S. Constitution has little to say about our economic rights and liberties – let alone our material welfare. Instead, as Fishkin and Forbath argue convincingly, the Constitution has nourished a democracy-of...

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]]> American Social Democracy and Its Imperial Roots https://lpeproject.org/blog/american-social-democracy-and-its-imperial-roots/ Tue, 19 Apr 2022 11:00:00 +0000 https://lpeproject.org/?p=6849 This post is part of a symposium on The Anti-Oligarchy Constitution, a new book by Joseph Fishkin and William E. Forbath. Read the rest of the symposium here. *** Joseph Fishkin and William Forbath have written a pathbreaking work of constitutional history and politics, one that will fundamentally reshape how scholars imagine the relationship between the U.S. Constitution and the economy.

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]]> Constitutional Political Economy for a Democracy, Not an Oligarchy https://lpeproject.org/blog/constitutional-political-economy-for-a-democracy-not-an-oligarchy/ Mon, 18 Apr 2022 11:00:00 +0000 https://lpeproject.org/?p=6840 This post introduces a symposium on The Anti-Oligarchy Constitution, a new book by Joseph Fishkin and William E. Forbath. Read the rest of the symposium here. *** We are glad to be having this conversation about our new book, The Anti-Oligarchy Constitution: Reconstructing the Foundations of American Democracy, under the auspices of the Law and Political Economy Project and its terrific blog.

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