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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.
List of contents
Introduction: The Covid-19 Pandemic, International Political Economy and Social Reproduction Part I: Global Power, Inequality, and Climate Change 1. "A Once in a Lifetime Opportunity": Covid-19 in the Age of Finance 2. The Billionaire Boom: Capital as Power and the Distribution of Wealth 3. Neoliberalism, Race, and Ignorance in an Era of Covid-19 4. Covid-19: Decarbonization under Duress 5. Engineering the Coronaverse: The Wild, Wild Sovereignty of Big Meat in the Age of the Corporate State Part II: Global Health, Social Care and Reproduction during the Covid-19 Pandemic 6. Global Health, Covid-19, and the Future of Neoliberalism 7. From Operation Warp Speed to TRIPS: Vaccines as Assets 8. Covid-19 and the Economy of Care: Disability and Aged Care Services into the Future 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 10. MMT, the Pandemic and the Fiscal Deficit Fright 11. Carbon Capitalism, the Social Forces of Annihilation, and the Future of Energy 12. Covid-19 and the Future of Food Conclusion: The Ongoing Covid-19 Dystopia: A Crossroads for Critical IPE and Humanity
About the author
Tim Di Muzio is Associate Professor in International Relations and Political Economy at the University of Wollongong, Australia and Associate at the Centre for Advanced International Relations Theory at the University of Sussex, UK. His research examines economic inequality, energy policy, and global debt and money.
Matt Dow received his PhD in Political Science in 2019 from York University, Canada. His research examines fossil fuels, the global monetary and debt system, settler colonialism, and climate change.
Summary
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.
