The Politics of COVID-19, Readings #29
The most important contributions on the political, economic, and social effects of the unfolding crisis.
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Economy
Coronavirus and progressive taxation
Will Davies | Discover Society
"It’s starting to feel like a floating prison": how coronavirus could endanger a $150bn industry
Nathan Ma | Prospect Magazine
Global Shortage of Personal Protective Equipment amid COVID-19: Supply Chains, Bottlenecks, and Policy Implications Kijin Kim et al. | Asian Development Bank
Dette africaine : la générosité calculée de Macron [French]
Maria Malagardis | Libération
Tech
Your Boss Is Spying on You
Ben Burgis | Jacobin
Coronavirus: As mental health services move online, problems of access and privacy emerge
Malavika Neurekar | Scroll
La crise du Covid-19 révèle l'ampleur de l'emprise des GAFAM sur nos vies [French]
Loïc Hecht | Slate
KI, Corona und die Datenarmut [German]
Thomas Ramge | Tagesspiegel
Academic
Projecting the transmission dynamics of SARS-CoV-2 through the postpandemic period
Stephen M. Kissler et al. | Science Mag
Soccer, World War II and coronavirus: a comparative analysis of how the sport shut down
Jorge Tovar | Soccer & Society
Public Health
How Global Public Health Could Revive Multilateralism
Arancha González | Project Syndicate
Social distancing until 2022?! Hopefully not
Konstantin Kakaes | MIT Technology Review
Practicing Medicine in the Time of COVID-19
Rija Siddiqui | Scientific American
Public Sphere
Shipwrecked: Adam Shatz on Covid-19 in America
Adam Shatz | London Review of Books
Nach der Krise werden wir anders hören [German]
Laurenz Lütteken | Neue Zürcher Zeitung
Martha Nussbaum: La crisis muestra la necesidad de promover la igualdad [Spanish]
Jairo Mejía | Efeminista
Una domanda [Italian]
Giorgio Agamben | Quodlibet
Democracy
Social Solidarity in Crisis and Beyond [Podcast]
Eric Klinenberg | RSA Events
Destroying public trust during a pandemic
John Aerni-Flessner | Africa is a Country
Qual è il prezzo delle nostre vite [Italian]
Stefano Feltri | Il Fatto Quotidiano
Social Toll
Care home deaths: the untold and largely unrecorded tragedy of COVID-19
Melanie Henwood | LSE British Politics and Policy
Migrantes ante el coronavirus: fuera del sistema [Podcast - Spanish]
Juan Guirado | Carne Cruda
Como está a situação dos povos indígenas em meio à pandemia [Portuguese]
Mariama Correia | Agência Pública
International
A Perfect Storm - Eurosceptcis and COVID-19
Edit Zgut, Robert Csehi | Visegrad Insight
Guatemala: US deportations driving up COVID-19 cases
Sonia Pérez D. | Washington Post
Gli eretici di Stoccolma. Come e perché la stampa italiana disinforma su Svezia e coronavirus [Italian]
Monica Quirico, Roberto Salerno | Wu Ming Foundation
Ataques fragilizam Brasil e ajudam China a obter concessões, avalia acadêmico [Portuguese]
Patrícia Campos Mello | Folha de S.Paulo
Coronavirus: ¿el fin del orden mundial actual? [Spanish]
Alejandro Zambudio | Jotdown
Covid-19 als Krisenverstärker: Die Pandemie und die Verschärfung sozioökonomischer Konflikte in der MENA-Region [German]
Irene Weipert-Fenner | Peace Research Institute Frankfurt
Class & Labour
Workers Should Shape the COVID-19 Recovery
Sarah Jaffe | The Progressive
Sick From Work
Jeffrey C. Isaac | Public Seminar
Armut in der Coronakrise: Kein Laptop für Adil [German]
Anna Lehmann | Taz
Anthropocene
Coronavirus Death Rates Are a Direct Result of Environmental Racism
Leila Ettachfini | VICE
When Floods and Coronavirus Collide: Dealing With a Disaster During a Pandemic [Podcast]
Kristy Dahl | Got Science?
Energie: Warum Corona dem Klima gut tut, aber die Energiewende ausbremst [German]
Mark Hartmann | Handelsblatt
Context
How the tiny coronavirus makes the world’s mightiest navy pointless
Paul Rogers | openDemocracy
Where Did The Coronavirus Originate? Virus Hunters Find Genetic Clues In Bats
Emily Kwong | NPR
La (s)fortuna di chiamarsi positivo [Italian]
Maria Vittoria D’Onghia | Treccani
Katastrophenforscher über Corona: „Wir waren blind“ [German]
Georg Sturm | taz
Future
Mobility in crisis: can global governance get the world moving again?
Christopher Szabla | The Global
COVID-19: Developing Countries Have a Chance to Reset Political, Economic Agendas
Asif Saad | The Wire
Crisi, conoscenza, cambiamento. Intervista a Fabrizio Barca [Italian]
Giacomo Bottos | Pandora Rivista
Uma outra economia mundial pós-crise passa pela garantia do direito à vida. Entrevista especial com Patrícia Rocha Lemos [Portuguese]
Ricardo Machado | Instituto Humanitas Unisinos
Crise due au coronavirus : « Agir collectivement pour changer de modèle politique » [French]
Le Monde
Capitalism
Does the Covid-19 crisis pose a systemic financial risk? [Video]
Alan Morrison et al. | Saïd Business School, University of Oxford
The coronavirus crisis will speed the end of shareholder primacy
Byron Loflin | Fast Company
No, Italy Is Not the Case Against Medicare for All
Vale Disamistade | The Nation
Vivere nella crisi: chiacchiere su reddito, moneta e ribellioni. [Video - Italian]
Andrea Fumagalli | Extinction Rebellion Milano