Episode 86: Building an Equitable Economy

<p>This week, we are talking about Law and the Political Economy, or LPE, which seeks to expose how the market and economy are disproportionately shaped by and to serve powerful interest groups and the economically and politically dominant. Christopher Wright Durocher speaks with Amy Kapczynski to better understand LPE, its development, and how it can be utilized to build an equitable economy.</p> <p><strong>Join the Progressive Legal Movement Today:</strong> <a href="https://www.acslaw.org/" target="_blank" rel= "noopener">ACSLaw.org</a></p> <p><strong>Today's</strong> <strong>Host:</strong> Christopher Wright Durocher, <a href= "https://www.acslaw.org/person/christopher-wright-durocher/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Vice President of Policy and Program</a></p> <p><strong>Guest:</strong> Amy Kapczynski, <a href= "https://law.yale.edu/amy-kapczynski" target="_blank" rel= "noopener">Professor of Law at Yale Law School</a></p> <p><strong>Link:</strong> <a href="https://lpeproject.org/" target= "_blank" rel="noopener">The Law and Political Economy Project</a></p> <p><strong>Link:</strong> <a href= "https://www.yalelawjournal.org/feature/building-a-law-and-political-economy-framework" target="_blank" rel="noopener">"Building a Law-and-Political-Economy Framework: Beyond the Twentieth-Century Synthesis," by Jedediah Britton-Purdy, David Singh Grewal, Amy Kapczynski & K. Sabeel Rahman</a></p> <p><strong>Link:</strong> <a href= "https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZQA746yzT2c&t=376s" target= "_blank" rel="noopener">"Reviving Progressive Constitutional Political Economy," co-hosted by ACS and Georgetown University Law Center</a></p> <p><strong>Visit the Podcast Website:</strong> <a href= "https://www.acslaw.org/media/podcast/" target="_blank" rel= "noopener">Broken Law Podcast</a></p> <p><strong>Email the Show:</strong> <a href= "mailto:Podcast@ACSLaw.org" target="_blank" rel= "noopener">Podcast@ACSLaw.org</a></p> <p><strong>Follow ACS on Social Media:</strong> <a href= "https://www.facebook.com/acslaw" target="_blank" rel