How Not to Do Industrial Policy

Instead of pouring public funds into private industry—as the U.S. did with COVID-19 vaccines—we must build public capacity and prioritize public objectives.

How Law Made Neoliberalism

If we are to emerge from this era of crisis, we need legal thinking that operates on fundamentally different presumptions.

The New Politics of Care

The right response to COVID-19 is to rebuild our economy from the ground up, putting people to work in a massive jobs program to secure the public health of all.

Markets v. Lives

Claims that the cure is worse than the disease rely on a false tradeoff between human needs and the economy.

Alone Against the Virus

Decades of neoliberal austerity will make it harder to fight the pandemic. We must rebuild our social safety net and forge a New Deal for public health.

Free Speech, Incorporated

A new, neoliberal interpretation of the First Amendment is undermining the regulatory state—and every labeling and advertising law is now in the crosshairs.

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