The Politics of COVID-19, Readings #11
The most important contributions on the political, economic, and social effects of the unfolding crisis.
[For the unabridged version of Part 11 of the evolving Reading List or to subscribe to our coronavirus-related podcast feed, please see here]
Economic Policy
Breaking the taboo: The political economy of COVID-motivated helicopter drops
Eran Yashiv | VOX, CEPR Policy Portal
Coronavirus : les trois semaines qui ont chamboulé l’orthodoxie économique européenne [French]
Eric Albert | Le Monde
From coronavirus crisis to sovereign debt crisis
Lee Buchheit, Sean Hagan | Alphaville
Helicopter, bazooka or drone? Economic policy for the coronavirus crisis
Richard Simmons et al. | POLITICO
Tech
Coronavirus: NHS uses tech giants to plan crisis response
Leo Kelion | BBC News
‘It’s just Armageddon’: Can coworking survive COVID-19?
Lauren Hepler | Protocol
International
‘Anticipatory anxiety’: Africa on the cusp of pandemic
Kerry Cullinan | openDemocracy
“Chaotic Situation” as India Begins Lockdown of 1.3 Billion Residents amid Coronavirus Pandemic [Podcast]
Amitav Ghosh | Democracy Now
Public Health
COVID 19 and the Ethics of Infectious Disease Control [Podcast]
Jonathan Pugh, Tom Douglas | Philosophical Disquisitions
Não podemos fetichizar as mortes provocadas pelo coronavírus [Portuguese]
Henrique Gomes | Folha De S. Paulo
Labs are experimenting with new – but unproven – methods to create a coronavirus vaccine fast
Jean Peccoud | The Conversation
Class & Labour
Informal workers in the time of Coronavirus
C. P. Chandrasekhar, Jayati Ghosh | International Development Economics Associates
Antonio Casilli: «Le confinement se décline différemment selon sa place dans la société» [French]
Nicolas Celnik | Libération
Coronavirus: the need for a progressive internationalist response
TNI staff | Transnational Institute
Context
COVID-19, international law and the battle for framing the crisis
Ntina Tzouvala | International Law Association
Coronavirus and the networked society [Podcast]
Will Davies | Politics Theory Other
Marcel Gauchet: «Si cette crise pouvait être l’occasion d’un vrai bilan et d’un réveil collectif!» [French]
Alexandre Devecchio | Le Figaro
Thomas Porcher : « Cette crise est un moment idéal pour faire passer les pires lois » [French]
Pablo Maillé | Usbek & Rica
(Пост)труд после пандемии: будем ли мы работать по восемь часов и как безработица может защитить нас от вирусов [Russian]
Света Горлатова | Strelka Mag
Public Sphere
How China Built a Twitter Propaganda Machine Then Let It Loose on Coronavirus
Jeff Kao, Mia Shuang Li | ProPublica
Política del cuerpo en tiempos de la pandemia COVID-19 [Spanish]
Gediminas Lesutis | El Salto
Social Toll
Anti-Abortion Politicians Are Exploiting the Coronavirus Outbreak to Shutter Health Clinics
Jordan Smith | The Intercept
India's poorest 'fear hunger may kill us before coronavirus'
Anonymous | BBC News
Capitalism
Der Neoliberalismus tötet [German]
Ingar Solty | Neues Deutschland
Un oligopolio controla el mercado de respiradores [Spanish]
Jonathan Tepper | La Vanguardia
Il coronavirus è stato soltanto lo spillo che ha bucato la grande bolla [Italian]
Gianluca De Stefano | Il Sole 24 Ore
Anthropocene
Ecosocialism or barbarism: an interview with Ian Angus
Anonymous | Review of African Political Economy
Is life during coronavirus how we will live during climate change?
Eve Andrews | Grist
Academic
The effect of human mobility and control measures on the COVID-19 epidemic in China
Moritz U. G. Kraemer et al. | Science
Novel Coronavirus and Old Lessons — Preparing the Health System for the Pandemic
John L. Hick, Paul D. Biddinger | The New England Journal of Medicine
We Need Strong Public Health Care to Contain the Global Corona Pandemic
Wim De Ceukelaire, Chiara Bodini | International Journal of Health Services
Democracy
Greed Destroyed Our Social Immune System. It’s Time to Rebuild It.
Monika Bauerlein | Mother Jones
Covid-19 : après le confinement, l’inéluctable recul de nos libertés ? [French]
Olivier Tesquet | Télérama