Food for thought:
Disentangling people from the things that surround and sustain them is mindful work. Every case is fact specific and historically contingent, but all cases point to the central role of property in creating personhood. open.substack.com/pub/allisont...

Food for thought: In 2023, there losses exceeding $12.5 Billion, one fourth of those losses happening to people over the age of 60. Tech support fraud was the most common complaint, followed by predatory marriage and cryptocurrency or other investment scams. open.substack.com/pub/allisont...

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Graphs and maps cannot tell us the whole story of inequality. We need narratives and images in order to help us understand, contextualize and find emotional access to the dynamics of poverty and wealth.

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Happy to be honored along with @erincollins.bsky.social and especially grateful for the colleagues and friends who have always supported my scholarship.

"Bleak employment prospects have helped tank young Americans’ views on the economy, to levels hardly seen since a prominent monthly survey began in the 1970s."

Food for thought: when people turn away from the probate process, they look to private financial institutions to transfer wealth. Banks, investment houses, and trust companies profit and the public institution for wealth transfer is being left unused and diminished.
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Food for thought: A dollar received in a paycheck possesses different meanings than a dollar received in a divorce settlement. Disinheritance confirms that money received at a parent's death has a very particular social meaning. open.substack.com/pub/allisont...

Didn't read it but I don't have to. Everything Brad Wilcox (who's behind this) writes about marriage is the same, and I've debunked it 100 times. This time it's marriage and happiness. In another case he said marriage makes women safer, and I wrote this, which addresses his common bullshit problems:

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The ad campaign criticizing the use of masks by federal agents working in Washington, D.C. has expanded to 115 bus stops, per organizers

Food for thought: In 2025 there were 15 “centibillionaires” worth $2.4 trillion for the first time ever, while there was not one county, city or state in the United States where a full-time worker earning minimum wage could afford to rent a two-bedroom apartment.
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Food for thought: Can you leave your child money but only if they marry someone of the same race ? Can you leave everything to your male relatives and not to the female ones? Can you condition a gift on going to a medical school, not drinking, or losing weight?
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Food for thought: "Quiet luxury isn’t all that quiet, especially if you’re tuned in to the right frequency. Quiet luxury is the very loud sound of assumed cultural knowledge and socially disciplined dressing, voiced in the fashion lingua franca of white elites." open.substack.com/pub/allisont...

📢 Heads up! The Association of Law & Political Economy is accepting submissions for our first-ever conference starting THIS Friday 🎉

Someone with a family income of $100,000 is twice as likely to become an artist as a person with a family income of $50,000. With an annual family income of $1 million, you are ten times more likely than someone with a family income of $100,000 to be an artist.
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New Substack post. On the importance of land as wealth.
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Prof. @athenais.bsky.social launched a new Substack newsletter, with weekly posts on the personal, legal, and cultural threads of inheritance. Whether you're curious about trust funds or the genealogy of both assets and attitudes, you’ll find plenty to think about. allisontait.substack.com

In case your summer viewing is my summer viewing...
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New post! Today's thought are about witches, goats, cats, and aging while female. allisontait.substack.com/p/witches-go...

Call for Papers is Out! Check it out and ask me if you have questions! lawandpoliticaleconomy.org

New substack post and some thoughts about house museums, inheriting, and cats. open.substack.com/pub/allisont...

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Please leave princesses out of the tradwife discourse... open.substack.com/pub/allisont...

Some thoughts on the gendering of inheritance, patrimony versus matrimony. In a world of shrinking economic opportunities, what's old may be what's new. open.substack.com/pub/allisont...