Limber Limpet
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current yls jd; phd @umich philosophy; tontine-curious
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great 🧵 identifying yet another textual problem with the unitary executive.
Per Justice Thomas, 18c dictionaries had a verb meaning “to assign for EXCLUSIVE use”—ie, the exact thing imperial presidency fans wish the vesting clause said.
But that verb was NOT “to vest.” It was “to appropriate.” 🤔
Per Justice Thomas, 18c dictionaries had a verb meaning “to assign for EXCLUSIVE use”—ie, the exact thing imperial presidency fans wish the vesting clause said.
But that verb was NOT “to vest.” It was “to appropriate.” 🤔
I just published a blog post on the terrific Yale JREG Blog that draws an interesting--and potentially important--connection between Congress's power to "appropriate" and the three "Vesting" clauses in the Constitution.
www.yalejreg.com/nc/vesting-v...
www.yalejreg.com/nc/vesting-v...
“Vesting” v. “Appropriating” in the Constitution, by Shalev Gad Roisman - Yale Journal on Regulation
This blog post draws an unlikely—but potentially quite important—connection between Congress’s power to “appropriate” and the three “vesting” clauses of the Constitution. It is an axiom of separation ...
www.yalejreg.com
July 2, 2025 at 4:03 PM
great 🧵 identifying yet another textual problem with the unitary executive.
Per Justice Thomas, 18c dictionaries had a verb meaning “to assign for EXCLUSIVE use”—ie, the exact thing imperial presidency fans wish the vesting clause said.
But that verb was NOT “to vest.” It was “to appropriate.” 🤔
Per Justice Thomas, 18c dictionaries had a verb meaning “to assign for EXCLUSIVE use”—ie, the exact thing imperial presidency fans wish the vesting clause said.
But that verb was NOT “to vest.” It was “to appropriate.” 🤔
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New Working Paper:
Why does power alternate even without formal institutions? We develop a dynamic model where power alternation emerges spontaneously before it is formalized, as part of an efficient self-enforcing agreement governed by evolving norms.
Link here: papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....
Why does power alternate even without formal institutions? We develop a dynamic model where power alternation emerges spontaneously before it is formalized, as part of an efficient self-enforcing agreement governed by evolving norms.
Link here: papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....
June 30, 2025 at 3:39 PM
New Working Paper:
Why does power alternate even without formal institutions? We develop a dynamic model where power alternation emerges spontaneously before it is formalized, as part of an efficient self-enforcing agreement governed by evolving norms.
Link here: papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....
Why does power alternate even without formal institutions? We develop a dynamic model where power alternation emerges spontaneously before it is formalized, as part of an efficient self-enforcing agreement governed by evolving norms.
Link here: papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....
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🔥New #basicincome paper just posted:🔥
"Basic income and labor supply: Evidence from an RCT in Germany"
(maybe not the wittiest title, but descriptive...)
maxkasy.github.io/home/files/p...
Feedback welcome, this is still subject to revisions!
"Basic income and labor supply: Evidence from an RCT in Germany"
(maybe not the wittiest title, but descriptive...)
maxkasy.github.io/home/files/p...
Feedback welcome, this is still subject to revisions!
June 8, 2025 at 4:26 PM
🔥New #basicincome paper just posted:🔥
"Basic income and labor supply: Evidence from an RCT in Germany"
(maybe not the wittiest title, but descriptive...)
maxkasy.github.io/home/files/p...
Feedback welcome, this is still subject to revisions!
"Basic income and labor supply: Evidence from an RCT in Germany"
(maybe not the wittiest title, but descriptive...)
maxkasy.github.io/home/files/p...
Feedback welcome, this is still subject to revisions!
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I am late catching up on this fascinating controversy in Malaysia. The Malaysian government had planned to submit the New Villages (where rural Chinese were forced to move during the Communist insurgency) as a World Heritage Site. Controversy ensued 1/3
www.freemalaysiatoday.com/category/nat...
www.freemalaysiatoday.com/category/nat...
New Villages have no cultural significance, says historian
Teo Kok Seong argues against Unesco heritage status for New Villages, saying their culture lacks distinctiveness and simply mirrors other Chinese settlements.
www.freemalaysiatoday.com
June 5, 2025 at 2:00 AM
I am late catching up on this fascinating controversy in Malaysia. The Malaysian government had planned to submit the New Villages (where rural Chinese were forced to move during the Communist insurgency) as a World Heritage Site. Controversy ensued 1/3
www.freemalaysiatoday.com/category/nat...
www.freemalaysiatoday.com/category/nat...
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This feels like a useful thing to read in the era of "sending people with tattoos to a torture camp in el salvador to die"
From “Drug Cartels Do Not Exist: Narcotrafficking in US and Mexican Culture" by Oswaldo Zavala
From “Drug Cartels Do Not Exist: Narcotrafficking in US and Mexican Culture" by Oswaldo Zavala
April 12, 2025 at 12:37 PM
This feels like a useful thing to read in the era of "sending people with tattoos to a torture camp in el salvador to die"
From “Drug Cartels Do Not Exist: Narcotrafficking in US and Mexican Culture" by Oswaldo Zavala
From “Drug Cartels Do Not Exist: Narcotrafficking in US and Mexican Culture" by Oswaldo Zavala
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A lovely interview about what looks as if it could be a marvellous new translation of Les Fleurs du mal: lareviewofbooks.org/article/to-t...
To the Bottom of the Unknown to Discover the New | Los Angeles Review of Books
Ronjaunee Chatterjee speaks with Nathan Brown about his new translation of Charles Baudelaire’s “The Flowers of Evil.”
lareviewofbooks.org
April 9, 2025 at 8:01 PM
A lovely interview about what looks as if it could be a marvellous new translation of Les Fleurs du mal: lareviewofbooks.org/article/to-t...
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So. I wrote a dissertation on how economic crises can lead to the breakdown of authoritarian regimes.
Here are three key point to keep in mind as you watch the news this week 🧵
Here are three key point to keep in mind as you watch the news this week 🧵
Economic Crises and the Breakdown of Authoritarian Regimes
Cambridge Core - Asian Studies - Economic Crises and the Breakdown of Authoritarian Regimes
www.cambridge.org
April 7, 2025 at 12:38 AM
So. I wrote a dissertation on how economic crises can lead to the breakdown of authoritarian regimes.
Here are three key point to keep in mind as you watch the news this week 🧵
Here are three key point to keep in mind as you watch the news this week 🧵
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My 'what Marxists have to teach Michael Bratman' paper has finally made it through peer review philpapers.org/rec/HABCAW
Joshua Habgood-Coote, Collective Action, Work, and Partial Plans - PhilPapers
Philosophers of action have for the most part ignored work as a case of collective action. Michael Bratman’s distinction between shared co-operative activity and prepackaged co-operation goes further,...
philpapers.org
March 11, 2025 at 10:34 AM
My 'what Marxists have to teach Michael Bratman' paper has finally made it through peer review philpapers.org/rec/HABCAW