The Politics of COVID-19, Readings #24
The most important contributions on the political, economic, and social effects of the unfolding crisis.
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Economic Policy
Shockwave: The World Goes Bust
Adam Tooze | London Review of Books
Will COVID-19 Make Modern Monetary Theory Mainstream? [Podcast]
Pavlina R. Tcherneva | Project Syndicate
In Italy and Elsewhere, Expansionary Public Spending is Key to Recovery from Covid-19
Antonella Stirati | Institute for New Economic Thinking
Stunde der Industriepolitik: Wirtschaftsministerium soll Herstellung von Medizingütern koordinieren [German]
Till Hoppe | Handelsblatt
International
“Lex Corona” in Bulgaria
Jana Tsoneva | Rosa-Luxemburg-Stiftung
The United Nations and the Coronavirus Crisis [Podcast]
Scott R. Anderson | The Lawfare Podcast
Authoritarianism Without Emergency Powers: Brazil Under COVID-19
Emilio Peluso Neder Meyer | Verfassungsblog
‘Never in my country’: COVID-19 and American exceptionalism
Jeanne Morefield | Responsible Statecraft
As falsas premissas de Guedes e Bolsonaro sobre a crise da Covid-19 [Portuguese]
Guilherme Leite Gonçalves | Blog da Boitempo
Future
#BuildBackBetter
Barry Knight | Rethinking Poverty
Oil Markets Provide a Glimpse of the Post-Pandemic Future
Meghan L. O'Sullivan | Bloomberg
Tout changer dans le monde d’après ? Le scénario noir que cela pourrait bien déclencher [French]
Vincent Tournier, Edouard Husson | Atlantico
Public Health
One Way to Potentially Track Covid-19? Sewage Surveillance
Gregory Barber | WIRED
Globaler Streit in Coronakrise: „Was im Masken-Handel abgeht, ist Wahnsinn“ [German]
Hendrik Ankenbrand | FAZ
Portare il sociale nella medicina. La lezione di Basaglia e la sanità dopo la pandemia [Italian]
Antonio Esposito | Napoli Monitor
Capitalism
These Are Conditions in Which Revolution Becomes Thinkable
Ben Tarnoff | Commune Magazine
Social Reproduction Theory And Why We Need it to Make Sense of the Corona Virus Crisis
Tithi Bhattacharya | Tithi Bhattacharya's blog
Angus Deaton: "Ein freier Markt garantiert keine Gesundheitsversorgung" [German]
Angus Deaton | Die Zeit
Academic
Fast spread of COVID-19 in Europe and the US and its implications: even modest public health goals require comprehensive intervention
Ruian Ke et al. | medRxiv
The French response to COVID-19: intrinsic difficulties at the interface of science, public health, and policy
Jean-Paul Moatti | The Lancet: Public Health
Age, Complexity, and Crisis — A Prescription for Progress in Pandemic
Louise Aronson | New England Journal of Medicine
Public Sphere
What Will Happen to the Novel After This?
Emily Temple | Literary Hub
The Pursuit of Clarity in a Time of Plague
Stephen Marche | Los Angeles Review of Books
Judith Schalansky, ciò che si rende indimenticabile [Italian]
Claudia Bruno | il manifesto
Apuntes enjaulados [Spanish]
Ignacio Echevarría | CTXT
Epidemia de fake news
Bruno de Pierro | Revista Pesquisa Fapesp
Class & Labour
Work After Quarantine
Brishen Rogers | Boston Review
Poco visibili, ma fondamentali: l’appello per gli “intermittenti” [Italian]
Stefano Mannucci | Il Fatto Quotidiano
Wir brauchen eine progessive, internationalistische Antwort auf die Pandemie [German]
Zeitschrift LuXemburg
Context
Stop calling coronavirus pandemic a 'war'
Alexandre Christoyannopoulos | The Conversation
The Left reflects on the Global Pandemic [Video]
Leo Panitch | Transfrom! Europe
The outbreak that invented intensive care
Hannah Wunsch | Nature
Tech
Tracking coronavirus: big data and the challenge to privacy
Nic Fildes | Financial Times
Using tech to fight the virus: How much privacy are South Koreans relinquishing in the battle against COVID-19?
Jean H. Lee | Wilson Center
Covid-19: the race to create privacy-focused contact tracing tools
John Leonard | Computing
Max Schrems: Verpflichtende Corona-App wäre hoch problematisch [German]
David | Kontrast
Social Toll
COVID’s borders: between peer-to-peer surveillance and the “common good"
Martina Tazzioli | openDemocracy
Covid-19 Has Hit African Americans Especially Hard
Akilah Johnson, Talia Buford | Undark
Immigrants Know All About Disaster Preparedness
Liana Aghajanian | The Nation
The Ripple Effects Of The Coronavirus On Immigrant Communities
Edwidge Danticat | The New Yorker
El negocio de la muerte: opacidad y tendencia al monopolio [Spanish]
Alejandro Tena | Público
Democracy
The Shock Doctrine Came for Bail Reform
Melissa Gira Grant | The New Republic
Enzo Traverso : “L'état d'urgence sanitaire risque d’exercer un contrôle total sur nos vies” [French]
Mathieu Dejean | Les inrocks
Les forces de l’ordre musclent l’offre «numérique» [French]
Christophe Cornevin | Le Figaro
Democrazia Dopo Il Covid 19 [Italian]
Gim Cassano | Fondazione Critica Liberale
Die Legitimität der Kontingenzkultur [German]
Michael Makropoulos | Soziopolis
Anthropocene
After the Coronavirus, Two Sharply Divergent Paths on Climate
Fred Pearce | Yale Environment 360
Will coronavirus change how we think about climate change?
David B. Green | Haaretz
Dalla pandemia a un nuovo modello di crescita: "Green/New Deal" per ripartire [Italian]
Lelio Demichelis | Agenda Digitale
Pandemie und Klimawandel: Was jetzt wohl aus dem Klima wird [German]
Andreas Frey | FAZ