Luke Herrine

Rocky Myers, a Black man from Decatur, Alabama, is still locked up for a crime he didn’t commit. His lawyer, former corporate counsel for the United Klans of America, told me if he had to do it all over again, he’d seat an all-white jury this time. Please take a moment with this story.

This article is now forthcoming with Illinois LR! I'll aim to have it up on SSRN, maybe with a little thread here, after another round of revisions.

Weekly Roundup: March 6 Veena Dubal and Aziza Ahmed on how feminists transformed the law and science of AIDS, Luke Herrine on market governance in Trumpworld, and Aditya Balasubramanian on the misnomer of modern Indian…

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Mi scusi, ma questo no e una explicazione

Why do the covers to the Neapolitan Quartet all look like crappy romance novels and don’t seem to resemble any of the characters? Has this discourse already occurred?

I know this is the Twitter sucks app- but the small amount of foreign press on here particularly now is stark comparatively and like things aren’t really moving over.

oh no.

The Israeli/American systematic attacks on Iranian school children and their schools continue x.com/AJENews/stat...

Map showing Dahieh in red and orange

The IDF just ordered the forced evacuation of *all of Dahieh* a day after ordering the forced evacuation of all of South Lebanon.

Israel is taking advantage of the focus on Iran to destroy Lebanon

How long, law and economics, will you abuse our patience?

Right, but in important ways a precursor to Caesarism! Maybe not in the most important ways. I was being cheeky and stretching, probably too far.

"Few of these threats have escalated beyond strongly worded warnings...It seems more likely that this FTC will adopt the strategy we have seen at several other agencies... : big talk that pushes the limits of law in the hope inducing anticipatory compliance or extracting corrupt settlements."

I might write a “come at me, bro” response to try to spur serious engagement. But mostly it’s demoralizing. And consistent with how LPE-ers have long been treated

IIRC Macey was initially involved in organizing the symposium (with @genevievelakier.bsky.social)

No way. These are the established scholars at elite institutions. The George Mason version was just as dismissive and just as uninterested in actually reading articles. And they were paid a lot of money by sympathetic donors!

His results don’t even establish the title! And that’s on his own description!!

It is bad. Less op-ed but tendentious definition of economics and does not engage with LPE literature beyond one article and then does not do so seriously (see Amy’s response in footnotes)

Oh so now you support the Senate oligarchy over the tribune of the people?

ICYMI: contains my theory of WTF is going on at the FTC

Whenever an l&e scholar is surprised that I can respond to a skeptical question with knowledge of the relevant concepts, I now know that this is the subconscious line of thinking they’re repressing

Well, it’s not a moral discipline. Purely empirical

Feel free to hop in! I think I’m going to write a reflection in this whole symposium. Very discouraging

The goal isn’t to promote efficiency, even, because we’re constrained by the limits of “protection”!

Later he says "consumers" doesn't just mean consumers. Back to the same ambiguities

Erik Hovenkamp’s contribution to this symposium explicitly restates the consumer surplus (which is maybe the trading partner surplus, who knows?) definition of welfare as if nobody has ever understood, let alone critiqued, it

I think the answer is the latter. There’s now a longstanding pattern of l&e scholars treating the LPE literature as one article long even when they’ve engaged with avowedly LPE scholarship in their areas of expertise

(Although not going into the pre-neoclassical tradition)

The Goldin & Liscow article meets this standard

The new Fusionism: PT Barnum & Norman Vincent Peale

L&E critics cite and discuss more than one LPE article challenge: impossible