67 Results for “Coronavirus Means”

If the European Central Bank does not jump to the aid of peripheral countries weakened by the pandemic, the Eurozone could collapse.

Expert warns that it could be a race against the clock as the fast-spreading B117 variant picks up steam in the U.S.

John Ruskin helps shed light on what it means to have an economy that demands we die for it

Targeted Measures and Subsidies for Cost Effective COVID-19 Abatement

Margaret Heffernan’s new book “Uncharted” warns against giving up the power to shape our destiny to gurus and gadgets promising false certainty.

School re-opening push based on outdated science is poorly timed in face of coronavirus resurgence

The speed and duration of COVID-19 economic recovery will depend on how the government will finance emergency programs.

The combination of technological disruption and economic globalization have resulted in stagnating wages, middle class job losses, and declining labor power in many developed countries. How did this happen and how could we respond?

Incomes Destroyed at the Bottom, Profits Supported at the Top

It’s time to prioritize mental well-being to avoid far-reaching economic and social consequences.

Warnings of “corruption and incompetence coming together,” as economists William Lazonick and Öner Tulum study the race to end the pandemic.

Evidence shows pharmaceutical companies won’t stop price-gouging and risking American lives for financial gain in this time of crises – unless we force them.

Capacity, Scale, and Control

Researchers have shown that the financial and economic impacts of denying women abortion care can last years

Expert warns that without more robust abatement measures and testing, the virus could rage until mid-2022.

Economist Darrick Hamilton explains why confronting the racial wealth gap is the only way to address 400 years of discrimination.

Chioma Agwuegbo of TechHer Nigeria, talks to Folashadé Soulé and Herbert Mba Aki about how the pandemic is impacting young people in Nigeria, especially young women, and how African youth are tackling the crisis.

If libertarians wish to maintain their self-centered fixation on their own freedoms without considering others, let them do so — in indefinite quarantine from the rest of us.

A Report From the Front Line

Austerity policies will slow recovery and should be rejected

Once again, income earned by the many is used to save the wealth of the few.

Evidence-based answers to the main (policy) questions concerning the return of high inflation

Economist Gordon Lafer describes a race against the education technology industry to do what’s right for America’s kids

Contrary to pharmaceutical company claims, revenue from high insulin prices are going to shareholders, not R&D

“Just learn to live with it” policies subject children to an experiment with a systemic disease that does serious and lasting damage, warns former NASA and DARPA technologist

Mortality and economic data show how constraints to government spending and a skepticism of redistributive policies have made the pandemic far worse

Billions living in insecurity and injustice is hardly a rational system.

Gilead’s shareholders want exorbitant profits from Remdesivir, even though it was the public that enabled its development.

Just before the crisis, European countries were designing austerity reforms that would increase inequality and reduce internal demand. Could they return?

Economists Claudia Sahm, Servaas Storm, and Pia Malaney share their views on the problem that has everyone freaking out. Here’s what it all means for your pocketbook – and your democracy.

No one person or perspective holds the key to solving economic problems, says Jay Pocklington of the Institute for New Economic Thinking

Dr. Ming Lin spoke out about Covid safety at his hospital and was fired. He’s fighting back against a system that put profits over human life.

Canadian economist Mario Seccareccia, recipient of this year’s John Kenneth Galbraith Prize in Economics, says it’s time to reconsider the idea of full employment. He spoke to Lynn Parramore of the Institute for New Economic Thinking about why 2021 offers a rare opportunity to rebalance the economy in favor of Main Street.

The plight of white blue-collar workers is well-known, but Blacks in that category were feeling the squeeze long before their white counterparts.

Andrew Sheng, Distinguished Fellow at the Asia Global Institute, University of Hong Kong, talks about the love-hate relationship between the US and China and how both sides must learn to cooperate to address the world’s most pressing problems

To fight COVID-19, the EU must recognize that spending restraints have to go

The COVID pandemic highlighted the deepening water crisis. “Do we understand that over half the population of the world doesn’t have a place to wash their hands with soap and warm water?” says water warrior Maude Barlow.

An interview with Pr Benno Ndulu, the former Governor of the Bank of Tanzania, for INET’s series on COVID-19 and Africa

Much historical commentary emphasizes how pandemics restructure long-standing social and political arrangements. The observation applies to macroeconomics as well.

Rodney Jones, a long-time Asia analyst, colleague of Rob Johnson’s, and currently Principal of Wigram Capital Advisors in New Zealand, discusses how China and other Pacific Rim countries succeeded in containing the Covid-19 pandemic and what this means for the West’s rivalry with China

Cryptocurrency was supposed to change the economic outlook for Black America. For many, it made things worse.

Rob Johnson interviewed Columbia University historian Adam Tooze in early 2020 about his work on financial history and how it relates to the Green New Deal.

What ails the EU Green Deal is exactly what troubles the Union in general — an absence of social democracy at work

Whether it is called “Build Back Better” or a “Green Industrial Policy” or, indeed, a Green New Deal, it is imperative to reject the false dichotomy of “jobs against climate.”

In the first of a two-part interview, Rob Johnson talks to author, activist, and former Black Panther Party chairwoman Elaine Brown about the killing of George Floyd and the protests sweeping the U.S. in the context of the coronavirus pandemic.

Dean Baker, senior economist with the Center for Economic and Policy Research, talks about how geopolitical and economic tensions between the US and China benefit powerful elite sectors in the US, but are bad for working people.

Arjun Jayadev, economics professor at Azim Premji University in Bangalore, India, and Achal Prabhala, coordinator of the AccessIBSA project, discusses the urgency of waiving intellectual property protections for vaccines, particularly in light of the on-going COVID-19 pandemic in India and other developing countries.

After years of amassing power, the tide is turning against the tech monopolies

The education of the next generation of economists too often ignores the real crisis we face today: climate change, inequality, and financial instability. Sam de Muijnck and Joris Tieleman seek to address this problem in their book, Economy Studies, which outlines a practical road map for effectively connecting pluralism of core academic material to real world events, values, and the great questions of our time.