COVID-19 and the global political economy : : crises in the 21st century / / edited by Tim Di Muzio and Matt Dow.

• Superior document: RIPE series in global political economy
• TeilnehmendeR: Di Muzio, Tim,; Dow, Matt,
• Place / Publishing House: London ;, New York, New York : : Routledge,, [2023]; ©2023
• Year of Publication: 2023
• Language: English
• Series: RIPE series in global political economy.
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (317 pages)

Table of Contents

Cover -- Half Title -- Series Information -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Dedication -- Table of Contents -- Notes On Contributors -- Abbreviations -- Introduction: The Covid-19 Pandemic, International Political Economy, and Social Reproduction -- Part I: Global Power, Inequality, and Climate Change -- Part II: Global Health, Social Care, and Reproduction During the Covid-19 Pandemic -- Part III: The Future of Production, Money, Energy, and Food Regimes -- Notes -- Part I Global Power, Inequality, and Climate Change -- 1 "A Once in a Lifetime Opportunity": Covid-19 in the Age of Finance -- Introduction -- Finance as a Sovereign State -- Who Determines National and Global Economic Policy? -- Reducing the Threat of Inflation -- Reducing the Threat of Taxation -- Reducing the Threat of Rising Wages -- Reducing the Threat of the Cost of Negative Externalities -- Reducing the Threat of a Lack of Investment Opportunities -- Reducing the Threat of Anti-Trust Legislation -- Reducing the Threat of Default -- Conclusion -- Note -- 2 The Billionaire Boom: Capital as Power and the Distribution of Wealth -- Introduction -- The Rise of the Billionaire Class -- Capital as Power and the Billionaire Class -- Should Billionaires Exist? -- Conclusion -- Notes -- 3 Neoliberalism, Race, and Ignorance in an Era of Covid-19 -- Introduction -- Adorno On Irrationalism -- The Neoliberal Premise -- The Role of Social Media -- Studying Ignorance -- Race and Ignorance -- Conclusion -- 4 Covid-19: Decarbonisation Under Duress -- Introduction -- Fossil Fuels, Finance and Decarbonisation -- The Scientific Rationale for Deep Decarbonisation -- Mainstream Political Discourse: The Second Major Obstacle to Decarbonisation -- The Looting of National Economies By Global Elites and Why Tax Havens Should Be Raided to Finance Global Decarbonisation -- Conclusion -- Notes.

5 Engineering the Coronaverse: The Wild, Wild Sovereignty of Big Meat in the Age of the Corporate State -- Introduction -- A "Crisis Epidemiology" of Meatpacking and COVID in the U.S. South -- Case Study of North Carolina -- Case Study of Georgia -- Unregulated Workplaces -- Expendable Workers -- Corporate Rule-Cowboys in the White House -- Global Meat-Outlaws On the Run -- Conclusion-"Gun Fight at the OK Corral" -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Part II Global Health, Social Care, and Reproduction During the Covid-19 Pandemic -- 6 Global Health, Covid-19 and the Future of Neoliberalism -- Introduction -- Postwar Capitalist Development and Global Health, 1945-1980 -- Neoliberalism, Risk Privatisation and the Reconfiguration of Public Health Financing, 1980-2008 -- The Dialectical Effects of Neoliberalism On Population Health -- Covid-19 and State Responses to the Crisis -- "A Pandemic of Poverty" -- Lessons From the Covid-19 Crisis and Alternatives to Neoliberalism: Recovering and Prioritising the Social -- Notes -- 7 From Operation Warp Speed to TRIPS: Vaccines as Assets -- Introduction -- Operation Warp Speed and War-Biomedical Logics -- Asset Accumulation Logics -- TRIPS and Intellectual Property Logics -- Conclusion -- 8 Covid-19 and the Economy of Care: Disability and Aged Care Services Into the Future -- Introduction -- The Pre-Pandemic Care Sector Landscape -- The Experiences of People With Disability, Older People and Care Workers During the Pandemic -- Opportunities for Future Reform of the Care Sector -- Invest in the Care Sector Workforce and Improve Pay and Employment Conditions -- Invest in Supported Independent Living and Community Living Options -- Establish Permanent Advisory Bodies to Give Older People and People With Disability a Voice in Policy Decisions -- Foreground Human Rights in Future Care Policy, Planning and Practice.

Conclusion -- Notes -- Part III The Future of Production, Money, Energy, and Food Regimes -- 9 Covid-19 and the Future of Work: Continuity and Change in Workplace Precarity -- Introduction -- The Temporality and Rhythm of Precarisation -- Precarisation as Trend, Precarisation as Rupture -- Unemployment -- Income Insecurity -- Collective Voice and Associational Power -- New Features of Work During the Covid-19 Recession -- Office Work, Remote Work and Working From Home (WFH) -- Food and Accommodation -- Retail Trade, Online Shopping, and Logistics -- Discussion and Conclusion: New Vectors in Precarisation? -- Note -- 10 MMT, the Pandemic, and the Fiscal Deficit Fright -- Power, Fiscal Lock-In and Pauperism -- MMT, Free Lunches and the Pandemic -- The Dearth of Money Revisited and Commercial Banks -- Conclusion -- Notes -- 11 Carbon Capitalism, the Social Forces of Annihilation, and the Future of Energy -- Introduction -- A New Global Energy Order? -- Neoliberal Carbon Capitalism and Its Discontents -- Carbon Inequality, Petro-Market Civilisation, and the Social Forces of Annihilation -- Conclusion -- Notes -- 12 Covid-19 and the Future of Food -- Introduction -- Food Regime Machinations -- Privatisation and the United Nations -- Turning Point in the Food Regime? -- China in the Food Regime -- Emancipatory Possibilities -- Conclusion -- Notes -- Conclusion The Ongoing Covid-19 Dystopia: A Crossroads for Critical IPE and Humanity -- Introduction -- Main Achievements -- The Crossroads of Multiple Crises -- Neoliberalism, the Pandemic and Post-Capitalism? -- Conclusion -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index.