sanjukta paul

Btw my parents just said they voted for him partly bc "clearer on palestine earlier." I hadn't been following this!

Hadn't thought to ask before but my parents voted Talarico

MAGAs losing in texas it looks like

I'm not endorsing this affirmatively by the way -I think there are all kinds of reasons it's not applicable as a general principle- but if you do think so then probably good to get it right

Ricardo literally says it's still overall efficient to specialize in winemaking if you're better at that than clothmaking even if your trading partner is better at winemaking too. That's what makes it "comparative" and not "absolute" advantage

That’s just maddening. @matthewtbodie.bsky.social and I wrote a book critiquing the law-and-econ arguments for the core features of shareholder primacy, and did so taking the standard precepts of economics and social choice theory as given.

Well i think that is just generally true...

Democrats in four states seek to bar ICE employees from future civil service jobs Bills aim to make ICE employees ineligible for jobs in law enforcement, public education and state civil service

In 2017, there was huge splash of sub-federal legislation to protect people from ICE. This time (in part due to some wrongheaded thinking by the consultant class in DC), legislation is percolating slowly. Nevertheless, a race to top dynamic is emerging. #ICEOUT
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...

That's not a straight shooter move

Not even conceivably operationalizable, then - not without falling back on the same types of qualitative reasoning he says the "science" displaces

Trump: Zohran has come a long way embracing, of course, the Declaration of Independence while at The Oval Office - Big progress! President DJT

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Well i'm not talking about them

Genuinely: i thought we had moved on to total welfare and/or output? Or is the claim here that consumers being better off is equivalent to both of those?

Published by university of chicago press!

Colorful graffiti on stopped freight car with dry grass in front

View out train window to dry shrub, low hills, and I-10

Book title: AGAINST MONEY

Cleansing out my aura by starting Josh Mason and Arjun Jayadev's book, just outside el paso

But I mean actual *literacy* about foundational texts of own perspective (not LPE scholarship) would help a lot

I don't think everyone has to cite everything all the time, though if you're making [broad, derisive] claims about whole bodies of scholarship [something I specifically decided to opt out of here] then yeah you probably should!

Genuinely funny to hear this person talking about being unlettered. You should've heard him at the conference. I don't think I've seen such unearned superciliousness in my entire life, and that is saying something.

Apropos of nothing, "comparative advantage" means the thing *you're* best at -- not the thing you're *better at than others*. This isn't pedantry; it's essential to the entire argument, from Ricardo to today

... or, If you just say stuff they let you have tenure at yale?

“perfect competition”, rivalry, and #antitrust law

Thanks for reading!

Well i would genuinely love an answer to my problems so if that is provided i'll look fwd to it

lawreview.uchicago.edu/print-archiv...

Happy to have this out - give it a read and let me know what you think

Another one

Rubio: we're making a macho statement to increase our negotiating leverage, and the substance of that leverage is our threat to kill more children

Volume 93.2 is now live, featuring pieces from our Spring 2025 Symposium—Law & Economics (L&E) vs. Law & Political Economy (LPE): A Debate. You can find them all here: lawreview.uchicago.edu.

Agreed

If your pitch is "on social media, someone said something weird" and you lean into to imply it is a broader cultural norm, that demands a higher level of proof. That said, the bar for being called a Nazi on this site is pretty damn low.