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Kate Jackson
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Associate Professor of Law at a regional midwest public law school. Political theory, corps & admin. 🧶👽👾🧙🏽‍♀️🦅🎮 My views are my own and reposts are not endorsements.

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Kate Jackson @katejackson.bsky.social · 7h
Getting ready for the very first LPE conference and thought it would be fun to revisit my very first LPE contribution. 🎶memories🎵🎶

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One of LPE’s foundational commitments, as Sanjukta Paul reminds us, is that law constitutes markets – and that, as a result, we are free to constitute them differently. But this simply begs the question: how ought we constitute them? This is where political theory can be useful. As Sam Bagg points out, many LPE scholars already understand that democracy must have something to do with it. We object to many of our laws because they are undemocratic, reflecting instead the power of entrenched elites. But what would count as democratic is a genus populated by a wide variety of species, from procedural, populist (left, right, and ideologically empty), republican, epistemic, agonistic, discursive, representative, and participatory. Each implies different legal and institutional reforms and prioritizes different values. Moreover, if we are committed to some form of constitutionalism, we have to admit that democratic publics cannot shape the law any which way they please.

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Kate Jackson @katejackson.bsky.social · 7h
Getting ready for the very first LPE conference and thought it would be fun to revisit my very first LPE contribution. 🎶memories🎵🎶

lpeproject.org/blog/situati...
One of LPE’s foundational commitments, as Sanjukta Paul reminds us, is that law constitutes markets – and that, as a result, we are free to constitute them differently. But this simply begs the question: how ought we constitute them? This is where political theory can be useful. As Sam Bagg points out, many LPE scholars already understand that democracy must have something to do with it. We object to many of our laws because they are undemocratic, reflecting instead the power of entrenched elites. But what would count as democratic is a genus populated by a wide variety of species, from procedural, populist (left, right, and ideologically empty), republican, epistemic, agonistic, discursive, representative, and participatory. Each implies different legal and institutional reforms and prioritizes different values. Moreover, if we are committed to some form of constitutionalism, we have to admit that democratic publics cannot shape the law any which way they please.

Reposted by Kate Jackson

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Erin Lockwood @erinkaylockwood.bsky.social · 9h
This year I made two big changes to my graduate International Political Economy syllabus: 1) I leaned in to money and capital as organizing themes, and 2) I assigned (nearly) all books. Here's our reading list, ft. Karl Polanyi, Benjamin Cohen, @stefeich.bsky.social, Ngaire Woods, J.C. Sharman ...
Stack of books: The Great Transformation by Karl Polanyi International Political Economy by Ben Cohen The Currency of Politics by Stefan Eich The Globalizers by Ngaire Woods The Money Laundry by J.C. Sharman The Code of Capital by Katharina Pistor Bankers' Trust by Aditi Sahasrabuddhe Unexpected Revolutionaries by Manuela Moschella Rating Politics by Zsofia Barta and Alison Johnston Bucking the Buck by Daniel McDowell The Meddlers by Jamie Martin The Entangled Legacies of Empire (eds. Gilbert, Bourne, Haiven, and Montgomerie) Depletion by Shirin Rai Chip War by Chris Miller

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Kate Jackson @katejackson.bsky.social · 21h
Hottest economy in the world

January layoffs, closures affect over 400 workers in Ohio

www.cincinnati.com/story/news/2...
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Kate Jackson @katejackson.bsky.social · 21h
Could really deal without the “and next we’ll invade Poland” vibes

Let’s hope it’s just “I want a huge slush fund to give $$ to my bribers er donors er tech company contractors”

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Kate Jackson @katejackson.bsky.social · 21h
Wish his ex would have bought it instead

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Kate Jackson @katejackson.bsky.social · 21h
When I was in law school I got sick working for a local firm one summer and we got season tickets to Busch gardens and had happy hour there daily. 100% peak legal academia experience.

Reposted by Kate Jackson

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David Burbach 🇺🇸🌹 @dburbach.bsky.social · 1d
We do not need a $1.5 trillion dollar defense budget.

50% increase in one year?!?

breakingdefense.com/2026/02/excl...
EXCLUSIVE: HASC chair seeking $450B for defense in reconciliation - Breaking Defense
Mike Roger, the House Armed Services Committee chief, wants to use reconciliation for a massive increase in defense spending.
breakingdefense.com

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Kate Jackson @katejackson.bsky.social · 1d
At the university of Cincinnati, where I work, we got a significant application bump after joining the Big 12. So I wonder how much of the shifting applications have to do with Big Sportsball.

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Richard Heppner 🤷🏼‍♂️ @rlheppner.bsky.social · 1d
I finally got the latest version of my Civil Procedure Game! Now with a box, better cards, and individualized pawns and tokens..
A closeup of the game board (a stylized map, with humorous state names) with dice and pieces and standees. Tag! The Jurisdiction game, a picture of the game board, cards (for parties, claims, damages, etc.), pieces, the gameboy, and instruction booklet. Tag! the Jurisdiction Game box.

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Kate Jackson @katejackson.bsky.social · 1d
So yeah, libtard, don’t bring guns to DC. Or anywhere else. They’re not for you.

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Kate Jackson @katejackson.bsky.social · 1d
Also, guns were never meant to protect against “tyranny” in the abstract. They are mean to protect agains the “tyranny” of a plural inclusive society that occasionally allowed non-white Christians to occupy places of power and esteem.

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Kate Jackson @katejackson.bsky.social · 1d
I’ve moved on from war documentaries to US domestic terrorism documentaries. It’s…harrowing to draw the through line from ruby ridge, Waco and Oklahoma City to ICE today. Or, rather, the white Christian nationalist/aryan nation/
gun nut backlash thereto.

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Kate Jackson @katejackson.bsky.social · 2d
Tell me you abuse women without telling me you abuse women

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Kate Jackson @katejackson.bsky.social · 2d
I’m a dreamer though. Alas. It’s congenital and has no cure

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Kate Jackson @katejackson.bsky.social · 2d
And here we are. Shareholder primacy ushering us in to an economy of rent-seeking and debt.

Tell me where I'm wrong!

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Kate Jackson @katejackson.bsky.social · 2d
Meanwhile, since US companies make LESS (relatively) than they used to, stockholders would make money only if corporations started cutting costs. Happily, managers could trust the credit markets to supplement stagnating worker salaries (thanks to aforementioned foreign investors).

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Kate Jackson @katejackson.bsky.social · 2d
The momentum only speeds up when pension funds are privatized everywhere - even more cash is looking for a home in US capital markets.

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Kate Jackson @katejackson.bsky.social · 2d
Of course those dollars come back to the US. they're not used to buy US goods. Instead, they're poured into the capital markets - and they bid up stock prices. Real handy for takeover artists looking to flip corporate conglomerates.

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Kate Jackson @katejackson.bsky.social · 2d
So what we have are a bunch of U.S. companies that make less and, thanks to trade deficits, a bunch of US dollars in the hands of foreign countries looking for a home.

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Kate Jackson @katejackson.bsky.social · 2d
The 1970s was also when Nixon took us off the gold standard; it was the end of Bretton Woods. The US is turning into a trade deficit country. Its manufacturing is dying.

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Kate Jackson @katejackson.bsky.social · 2d
"common sense" held that the reason companies were undervalued was because of inefficient managerialist practices nurtured in the warm waters of monopoly power.

But.

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Kate Jackson @katejackson.bsky.social · 2d
The world was ripe for SP: in the 70s, there was a bear market and corporate raiders discovered that they could sell companies for cheaper than they could buy them.

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Kate Jackson @katejackson.bsky.social · 2d
At the same time, financial markets could "discipline" management the way a product market should have disciplined them.. but no longer did, thanks to corporate concentration.

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Kate Jackson @katejackson.bsky.social · 2d
It was hoped that a "counter power" of shareholders would stymie the self-serving and inefficient behavior of corporate managers. With power, SHs would force management to run companies better.

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Kate Jackson @katejackson.bsky.social · 2d
I'm picking through the history of shareholder primacy and trying to tie it to larger macrofinancial/geopolitical trends. Looking for feedback!

SP arose in the 1970s: corporations should be managed to maximize share price (shareholders are presumed to all want this - despite its vagueness).

Reposted by William Myers, Kate Jackson

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Beau Baumann 🍎 @beaubaumann.bsky.social · 2d
1/x @jedshug.bsky.social and I have put up an updated version of our paper, "Quasi-Judicial: A History and Tradition," up on SSRN.

This paper shows that the quasi-judicial function from Humphrey's Executor is simpatico w/ both originalism and a history-and-tradition approach.
Quasi-Judicial: A History and Tradition
<div> <p>The Supreme Court’s recent removal cases have revived a foundational question in constitutional law: whether all administration must be controlled by
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Kate Jackson @katejackson.bsky.social · 2d
Putting together some thoughts for a panel on corporate gov the @lpeproject.bsky.social conference this week and I’ve come to the conclusion that ESG stakeholderism is indeed immanent critique

Sorry not sorry

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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 2d
This @bostonreview.bsky.social piece by @adambonica.bsky.social and @jakemgrumbach.bsky.social is an absolute must-read, as are many of the responses to it.

Spread this one far and wide.
How Not to Defeat Authoritarianism
Moderation used to help Democrats win, but its advantages now have been greatly exaggerated.
www.bostonreview.net

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Kate Jackson @katejackson.bsky.social · 2d
TLDR: To solve the housing crisis, cutting red tape won’t work. Sorry abundance. And taxing the public to build public housing is just us subsidizing billionaires again: this time, when they mess up the housing market.