COVID-19 and the global political economy : : crises in the 21st century /

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

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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)
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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.

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