The Politics of COVID-19, Readings #5
The most important contributions on the political, economic, and social effects of the unfolding crisis.
[For the unabridged version of Part V of the evolving Reading List, please see here]
Economic Policy
How To Save the U.S. Economy [Podcast]
Alexandra Ocasio-Cortez, Stephanie Kelton | Deconstructed
What Would Roosevelt Do?
Pavlina R. Tcherneva | Project Syndicate
We Can Afford to Beat This Crisis
Rohan Grey | The Nation
Geopolitics
Does the coronavirus require a rethink of globalization?
Daniel W. Drezner | The Washington Post
The seven early lessons of the global coronavirus crisis
Ivan Krastev | New Statesman
Capitalism
The Anti-Wartime Economy
James Meadway | Tribune
Economic meltdown & Corona Pandemic: Monster at the Door [Podcast]
Robert Brenner | Beneath The Surface
« Les connards qui nous gouvernent » [Podcast - French]
Frédéric Lordon | Le Monde diplomatique
Global Economy
Economic Effects of the Coronavirus [Podcast]
Jeremi Suri | This Is Democracy
Europe’s Central Bank, in About-Face, Swoops in to Save a Virus-Afflicted Continent
Keith Johnson | Foreign Policy
Health Policy
Countries test tactics in ‘war’ against COVID-19
Jon Cohen, Kai Kupferschmidt | Science
In one Italian town, we showed mass testing could eradicate the coronavirus
Andrea Crisanti, Antonio Cassone | The Guardian
International
Face à l’épidémie de coronavirus, les Japonais ne croient plus possible la tenue des JO [French]
Philippe Mesmer | Le Monde
How Hungary's Orban blamed migrants for coronavirus
Edit Inotai | EUobserver
Left & Labor
Andrea Fumagalli: «Denaro dall’elicottero? Sì, ma vada direttamente alle persone» [Italian]
Roberto Ciccarelli | il manifesto
Our Public Health Infrastructure Is Losing a Fight With Capitalism
Danya M. Qato | Jacobin
Climate
Coronavirus Just Might Help Us Save the Planet
Alexander Sammon | The American Prospect
Context
Die Corona-Pandemie zeigt die Ästhetik des Widerstands [German]
Thomas Tuma | Handelsblatt
Danger and Opportunity? [Podcast]
Anne McElvoy, Andrew Doyle | BBC Moral Maze
Academic
A doubt of multiple introduction of SARS‐CoV‐2 in Italy: a preliminary overview
Marta Giovanetti, Silvia Angeletti | Journal of Medical Virology
SARS-CoV-2: fear versus data
Yanis Roussel et al. | International Journal of Antimicrobial Agents
Public Sphere
A White Nationalist Has Rebranded Himself as Coronavirus Expert. And People Are Flocking to Him.
Will Sommer | The Daily Beast
Bio-austerity and Solidarity in the Covid-19 Space of Emergency
Michele Lancione, AbdouMaliq Simone | Society and Space
Social Toll
What the coronavirus outbreak means for thousands of Palestinian refugees in Lebanon
Islam Khatib | openDemocracy
The Revival of the National Union of the Homeless
Liz Theoharis | The Nation
Tech
How COVID-19 will push for an even more aggressive automation
Cache Baba | Medium
Virus: droni termici e controllo dei telefoni, la Cina ha tenuto tutti in casa [Italian]
Alexandra Javarone | Affari Italiani
Democracy
Capitalism Has its Limits
Judith Butler | Verso
Covid-19: rendere politica la rabbia [Italian]
Sarah Gandini | Effimera
Neoliberalism
Neoliberalismo, pandemias y las éticas del cuidado [Spanish]
Gabriel Giorgi | Página/12
O coronavírus e a derrocada final do neoliberalismo [Portuguese]
Valdemar Augusto Angerami | Carta Capital