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Author: Monica M Taylor Publisher: ISBN: Category : Languages : en Pages : 94
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This book contextualizes the COVID-19 pandemic from a social justice lens. A social justice lens carries an obligation to humanity and health and human rights protections which requires a redistribution of resources and opportunities to provide the most vulnerable members in a society, the opportunity to live a healthy life that includes social, mental and physical well-being. In a pandemic such as COVID-19, which is mounted with economic destruction and tragic losses in our elderly populations, racial and ethnic groups, people who live in poverty and persons in detention centers, social justice logic should be at the forefront of all decision-making and all political communications.Using theories of the political economy of racism, the intentional and historical mistreatment of Blacks in America is discussed extensively. In addition, this book does not ignore the exploitation of Black and Brown populations in the criminal justice system or the enduring political, economic and social inequities that foster health disparities...and now, added disparities in cases and deaths from COVID-19. With capitalism at the heart of it all, this is unconscionable and disheartening as this happens in parallel with our current public health crisis.
Author: Monica M Taylor Publisher: ISBN: Category : Languages : en Pages : 94
Book Description
This book contextualizes the COVID-19 pandemic from a social justice lens. A social justice lens carries an obligation to humanity and health and human rights protections which requires a redistribution of resources and opportunities to provide the most vulnerable members in a society, the opportunity to live a healthy life that includes social, mental and physical well-being. In a pandemic such as COVID-19, which is mounted with economic destruction and tragic losses in our elderly populations, racial and ethnic groups, people who live in poverty and persons in detention centers, social justice logic should be at the forefront of all decision-making and all political communications.Using theories of the political economy of racism, the intentional and historical mistreatment of Blacks in America is discussed extensively. In addition, this book does not ignore the exploitation of Black and Brown populations in the criminal justice system or the enduring political, economic and social inequities that foster health disparities...and now, added disparities in cases and deaths from COVID-19. With capitalism at the heart of it all, this is unconscionable and disheartening as this happens in parallel with our current public health crisis.
Author: Zophia Edwards Publisher: Daraja Press ISBN: 9781990263316 Category : Languages : en Pages : 36
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The COVID-19 pandemic has brought into sharp relief the deep structural problems affecting nonwhite racialized workers in the core and periphery. Yet, many social scientific analyses of the global political economy, at least in the pre-COVID era, are race neutral or willfully indifferent to the persistent racial pattern of global inequalities. This pamphlet explains how the unremitting super-exploitation of Black and other nonwhite racialized labor in the core and the periphery persisted throughout the COVID-19 crisis through the lens of Black radical scholarship on racism and capitalism. Edwards not only captures how people of African descent have been disproportionately impacted by COVID, but also the historical, sociological and structural roots of the inequalities that affect vulnerable groups across the world, tied to what she has described as the architecture of the global economy linked to race and gender. She represents a refreshing voice in our time and part of a Caribbean radical tradition in the spirit of Claudia Jones, Eric Williams, Oliver C. Cox, and C.L.R. James, from her native Trinidad, as well as Guyana's Walter Rodney and Andaiye.
Author: Jonathan Michie Publisher: Taylor & Francis ISBN: 1000637778 Category : Business & Economics Languages : en Pages : 371
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This comprehensive book brings together research published during 2021 analysing the impact of the Covid-19 pandemic on the economy – on output and employment, on inequality, and on public policy responses. The Covid-19 pandemic has been the greatest public health crisis for a century – since the ‘Spanish Flu’ pandemic of 1919. The economic impact has been equally seismic. While it is too early to measure the full economic cost – since much of this will continue to accumulate for some time to come – it will certainly be one of the greatest global economic shocks of the past century. Some chapters in this edited volume report on specific countries, while some take a comparative look between countries, and others analyse the impact upon the global economy. Even before the Covid-19 pandemic, there had been calls for a ‘great reset’ in face of the climate crisis, the increased income and wealth inequality, and the need to avoid further global financial crisis. With the devastating Covid-19 pandemic – a harbinger for further such pandemics – there is an even greater need for a reset, and for the reset to be that much greater. The chapters in this book were originally published as special issues in the journal International Review of Applied Economics.
Author: Melvin Leiman Publisher: ReadHowYouWant.com ISBN: 1459610504 Category : Biography & Autobiography Languages : en Pages : 738
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An intense and compact resource for understanding how the political economy of racism evolved in the United States.'' - Science & Society Racism is about more than individual prejudice. And it is hardly the relic of a past era. This scholarly, readable, and provocative book shows how the persistence of racism in America relies on the changing interests of those who hold the real power in society and use every possible means to hold onto it.
Author: William Davies Publisher: MIT Press ISBN: 1913380114 Category : Political Science Languages : en Pages : 283
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A critical and evidence-based account of the COVID-19 pandemic as a political–economic rupture, exposing underlying power struggles and social injustices. The dawn of the COVID-19 pandemic represented an exceptional interruption in the routines of work, financial markets, movement across borders and education. The policies introduced in response were said to be unprecedented—but the distribution of risks and rewards was anything but. While asset-owners, outsourcers, platforms and those in spacious homes prospered, others faced new hardships and dangers. Unprecedented? explores the events of 2020-21, as they afflicted the UK economy, as a means to grasp the underlying dynamics of contemporary capitalism, which are too often obscured from view. It traces the political and cultural contours of a "rentier nationalism," that was lurking prior to the pandemic, but was accelerated and illuminated by COVID-19. But it also pinpoints the contradictions and weaknesses of this capitalist model, and the new sources of opposition that it meets. An empirical, accessible and critical analysis of the COVID economy, Unprecedented? is essential reading for anyone seeking to understand the political and economic turbulence of the pandemic’s first eighteen months.
Author: Alan W. Cafruny Publisher: Springer Nature ISBN: 3031239148 Category : Political Science Languages : en Pages : 329
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This book seeks to identify the reasons why some countries were more efficient and effective than others in responding to the COVID 19 pandemic, and why the global community failed to coalesce. What are the political determinants of the different state responses to the pandemic? Why was scientific advice rejected or ignored in many countries? What has been the role, respectively, of neoliberalism, populism, and authoritarianism in the making of Covid-19 policy? What role have each of these factors played in the uneven and clearly inadequate global response to the pandemic? In an effort to understand why some states failed to handle the pandemic properly, some of the literature suggests that populism is at the root of the current failure of international co-operation. The global financial crisis of 2008-10 triggered significant cooperation within the G-20, led by the combined efforts of the United States and China. These forms of cooperation have clearly disappeared in the context of the pandemic, not only with respect to economic policy but also in public health and management. The authors of this volume link the different state responses to the pandemic-- from its inception to the start of the vaccination campaign, and to the political regimes prevailing in each. In particular, the present volume focuses on a distinction between the responses of neo-liberal regimes, populist regimes and authoritarian ones.
Author: Tim Di Muzio Publisher: Taylor & Francis ISBN: 1000653919 Category : Political Science Languages : en Pages : 291
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Covid-19 and the Global Political Economy investigates and explores how far and in what ways the Covid-19 pandemic is challenging, restructuring, and perhaps remaking aspects of the global political economy. Since the 1970s, neoliberal capitalism has been the guiding principle of global development: fiscal discipline, privatisations, deregulation, the liberalisation of trade and investment regimes, and lower corporate and wealth taxation. But, after Covid-19, will these trends continue, particularly when states are continuing to struggle with overcoming the pandemic and violating one of neoliberalism’s key principles: balanced budgets? The pandemic has exposed the fragility of the global political economy, and it can be argued that the intensification of global trade, tourism, and finance over the past 30 years has facilitated the spread of infectious diseases such as Covid-19. Therefore, economies in lockdown, jittery markets, and massive government spending have sparked interest in potentially re-evaluating certain features of the global political economy. This volume brings together leading and upcoming critical scholars in international relations and international political economy to provide novel, timely, and innovative research on how the Covid-19 pandemic is impacting (and will continue to impact) the global economy in important dimensions, including state fiscal policy, monetary policy, the accumulation of debt, health and social reproduction, and the future of austerity and the fate of neoliberalism. This book will be of great interest to students, scholars, and experts in international relations and international political economy, as well as history, anthropology, political science, sociology, cultural studies, economics, development studies, and human geography. Chapter 8 of this book is freely available as a downloadable Open Access PDF at http://www.taylorfrancis.com under a Creative Commons Attribution-Non Commercial-No Derivatives (CC-BY-NC-ND) 4.0 license.
Author: Geoffrey L. Wood Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield ISBN: 1666930180 Category : Social Science Languages : en Pages : 161
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The Impacts of COVID-19 on Political Dynamics, Social Inequality, and the Wellbeing of Americans examines the impacts of COVID-19 on political inequality, social inequality, and life changes of Americans. Topics include impacts of COVID-19 on the poor, differences in media responses to previous influenza versus COVID-19 pandemics, the intersection of race, class, and gender specific to this event, gender and changes in occupational loss, specific impacts on college students, and ways in which technological changes integrated with COVID-19. The contributors argue that COVID-19 made political and social inequality worse and affected various groups of Americans differently. This edited volume discusses mechanisms and rationales for why this is the case and offers potential solutions to instances of accelerating inequities in America.
Author: Zhihan Cui Publisher: ISBN: Category : Languages : en Pages :
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Social distancing via shelter-in-place strategies, and wearing masks, have emerged as the most effective non-pharmaceutical ways of combatting COVID-19. In the United States, choices about these policies are made by individual states. We develop a game-theoretic model and then test it econometrically, showing that the policy choices made by one state are strongly influenced by the choices made by others. If enough states engage in social distancing or mask wearing, they will tip others that have not yet done so to follow suit and thus shift the Nash equilibrium. If interactions are strongest amongst states of similar political orientations there can be equilibria where states with different political leanings adopt different strategies. In this case a group of states of one political orientation may by changing their choices tip others of the same orientation, but not those whose orientations differ. We test these ideas empirically using probit and logit regressions and find strong confirmation that inter-state social reinforcement is important and that equilibria can be tipped. Policy choices are influenced mainly by the choices of other states, especially those of similar political orientation, and to a much lesser degree by the number of new COVID-19 cases. The choice of mask-wearing policy shows more sensitivity to the actions of other states than the choice of SIP policies, and republican states are much less likely to introduce mask-wearing policies. The choices of both types of policies are influenced more by political than public health considerations.
Author: Monica M Taylor
Author: Monica M Taylor
Author: Zophia Edwards
Author: Jonathan Michie
Author: Melvin Leiman
Author: William Davies
Author: Jacob S. Hacker
Author: Alan W. Cafruny
Author: Tim Di Muzio
Author: Geoffrey L. Wood
Author: Zhihan Cui