The Politics of COVID-19, Readings #3
The most important contributions on the political, economic, and social effects of the unfolding crisis.
[For the full, unabridged version of the Part III of the evolving Reading List, please go here]
Health Policy
Why Mass Testing Is Crucial: the US Should Study the Veneto Model to Fight Covid-19
Luigi Zingales | ProMarket
A Fiasco in the Making? As the Coronavirus Pandemic Takes Hold, We Are Making Decisions without Reliable Data
John Ioannidis | STAT
Solidarity
From Mad Cows to Coronavirus: When Government Fails, Grass-Roots Activism Flourishes
Sidney Tarrow | Public Seminar
Macro
Coronavirus, Economic Crisis and Basic Income
Guy Standing | Progressive Economy Forum
It’s Time to Nationalize the Airlines
Alexander Sammon | The American Prospect
Podcast
Podcast with Sean Valles, Author of Philosophy of Population Health [Podcast]
Sean Valles | SCI PHI Podcast
COVID-19 and the Crisis of Neoliberalism [Podcast]
Sandy Hudson, Nora Loreto | Sandy and Nora
Academic
Regulating in Pandemic: Evaluating Economic and Financial Policy Responses to the Coronavirus Crisis
Hiba Hafiz et al. | Boston College Law School Legal Studies
Prisons and Custodial Settings Are Part of a Comprehensive Response to COVID-19
Stuart Kinner | The Lancet Public Health
Critical Health
On the Edges of Democracy: Mobilizing Health and Care as a Common Good
Krystian Woznicki | Non Copyriot
Health Nativism
Stephanie Degooyer, Srinivas Murthy | Dissent
Reflecting on SARS, 17 Years and Two Flu-Like Epidemics Later
Katherine A. Mason | Somatosphere
Capitalism
Vírus: Tudo o que É Sólido Se Desfaz No Ar [Portuguese]
Boaventura S. Santos | PÚBLICO
Culture & Education
What China’s Literary Community Is Reading during the Coronavirus Pandemic
Na Zhong | Literary Hub
Teaching Art Online under COVID-19
Kaitlin Pomerantz | Hyperallergic
Social
Covidnomics: Facing the Contradictions, Imagining New Worlds
Eleonora Priori | Plan C
Edgar Morin: "le Confinement Peut Nous Aider à Commencer une Détoxification de Notre Mode de Vie" [French]
David L. Bailly, Sylvain Courage | L'Obs
Context
From Environmental Crisis to Pandemic, Waging a War with Nature
John Kaag | Guernica
Paradossi e Tragedie del Coronavirus [Italian]
Italo Nobile | Contropiano
Politics
The Coronavirus Is Reducing Merkel’s EU Legacy to Ashes
Björn Bremer, Matthias Matthijs | Foreign Policy
Hounded out of U.S., Scientist Invents Fast Coronavirus Test in China
David Armstrong et al. | The Chronicle of Higher Education
NGOs Raise Alarm as Coronavirus Strips Support from EU Refugees
Annie Kelly et al. | The Guardian
Tech & Media
Chinas Code-System: Wie die Coronakrise zu Noch Mehr Überwachung Führte [German]
Dana Heide | Handelsblatt
U.S. Government, Tech Industry Discussing Ways to Harness Location Data to Combat Coronavirus
Craig Timberg et al. | The Seattle Times