The Legal-Economic Nexus

We interview Jessica A. Shoemaker and James Fallows Tierney about their article Trading Acres forthcoming in the Yale Law Journal in coordination with the Association for Promotion of Political Economy and Law’s “What is Capitalism” Reading Group

For the first episode of season five, we talk with Prof Jamee Moudud about his new book The Legal and Economic Foundations of Capitalism

We interview the 2025 AFEE Veblen Commons award winner Prof. Janice Peterson

We interview Professor Marianne Johnson who is the Thrivent University Endowed Professor from The University of Wisconsin at Oshkosh. We cover topics including original institutional economics and the history of economic thought.

We are interviewing Professor Emeritus Martha McCluskey from the State University of New York at Buffalo School of Law and President of the Association for the Promotion of Political Economy and Law and Board member of the LPE Collective

We interview David Dequech is an Economist from the University of Campinas in Brazil. We talk about his general thinking about institutions, norms and post Keynesianism.

We interview Peter Murrell of the University of Maryland and Peter Grajzl of Washington and Lee University to discuss their important work on measuring the history of legal change and evolution and its impact on the economy.

We sit down and interview the 2021 Commons-Veblen winner Professor Emeritus Deborah Figart of Stockton University.

We sit down and interview Fabrizio Esposito, Assistant Professor of Private Law at Nova Law School in Portugal. Fabrizio's important new book is called "The Consumer Welfare Hypothesis in Law and Economics" by Edward Elgar Publishing. Esposito challenges the conventional wisdom that total efficiency should be the goal and in fact in practice and theory consumer welfare should be the focus of law and public policy. His book is at: https://www.e-elgar.com/shop/usd/the-consumer-welfare-hypothesis-in-law-and-economics-9781800379640.html.

We interview F. Gregory Hayden, Professor Emeritus of the University of Nebraska-Lincoln. He is a well known founder of the social fabric matrix and has made other important advances in our understanding of institutional economics.