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Autor(en) / Beteiligte

• Reyes, Jessica Wolpaw
• Reyes, René

Titel

Abolition Economics

Ist Teil von

• Michigan journal of race & law, 2024-01, Vol.29 (1), p.0_1-124

Ort / Verlag

Ann Arbor: Michigan Journal of Race & Law

Erscheinungsjahr

2024

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• Imagine Freedom.123 Conclusion.124 Introduction The influence of economic analysis on legal scholarship is longstanding, widespread, and well-known.1 Indeed, in the ninth iteration of a treatise that he first published more than fifty years ago, Richard Posner asserts that "[e]conomic analysis of law is the foremost interdisciplinary field of legal studies," as demonstrated "by the number of journals devoted to the field, by the amount of encyclopedic coverage of it, and by the number of books . . . blanketing the field. "8 Criticisms such as these have often been accompanied by declarations or predictions of L&E's demise.9 Yet despite the frequency and forcefulness of critiques against L&E and neoliberal economics more broadly, the influence of economic analysis on law has endured.10 L&E continues to be applied to a broad range of legal issues,11 including areas in which its assumptions and methods might seem to be incongruously out of place. [...]our approach applies this rebuilt understanding to expose the role that mainstream economics plays in legitimizing and perpetuating racial capitalism, racial injustice, and interwoven systems of power and oppression. [...]the Article concludes with some tentative observations about the prospects of Abolition Economics as an intellectual movement and its relationship to the broader abolitionist struggle.