The Coronavirus Crisis Reader, 2nd ed.

Date of publication:August 2021

ISBN:978-1-939402-55-4

Pages:154

Price:$16.95

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The Coronavirus Crisis Reader, 2nd edition, is an essential guide to the economics of the Covid-19 pandemic. Its well-researched, clearly written articles are drawn from the pages of Dollars & Sense, the leading magazine of popular economics, with additional articles from Monthly Review, Dissent, the Economic Policy Institute, and the Independent Media Institute. The anthology provides highly accessible analyses of the origins and contours of the crisis; work, wages, and unemployment during the pandemic; and global and policy responses to the crisis.

The Coronavirus Crisis Reader’s distinguished contributors include Gerald Epstein, Jayati Ghosh, John Miller, Alejandro Reuss, Pavlina Tcherneva, and many others.

• Chapter 1—Origins And Contours of The Crisis
  • 1.1 Coronavirus: A Capitalist CrisisRichard D. Wolff
  • 1.2 The Trump Administration Was Ruining the Pre-Covid-19 Economy Too, Just More SlowlyJosh Bivens
  • 1.3 Covid-19 and Catastrophe CapitalismJohn Bellamy Foster and Intan Suwandi, as edited by the Dollars & Sense collective
  • 1.4 Disaster Capitalism and Covid-19Bryan Snyder
  • 1.5 The Stock Market and the Coronavirus CrisisJohn Miller
  • 1.6 Caring by the Dollar: Nursing Homes, Private Equity, and Covid-19Bill Barclay
• Chapter 2—Coronavirus, Capitalism, and the Workers’ Movement
  • 2.1 Not Simply a “Natural Disaster”Alejandro Reuss
  • 2.2 How the Coronavirus Crisis Became an Economic CrisisAlejandro Reuss
  • 2.3 How Inequality Kills, and How to Fight It in the Era of Covid-19Alejandro Reuss
• Chapter 3—Global Responses to the Crisis
  • 3.1 The Pandemic and the Global EconomyJayati Ghosh
  • 3.2 Are Governments Economically Stupid in Failing to Suspend Patent Protections for Vaccines?Arthur MacEwan
  • 3.3 Stringent, Stingy, and Severe: The Covid-19 Crisis in Modi’ s IndiaSmriti Rao
  • 3.4 Essential—and Expendable—Mexican LaborMateo Crossa and James M. Cypher
  • 3.5 Responding to Covid-19: A Review of Cuba’ s StrategyZaeem Hassan Mehmood
  • 3.6 Community Infrastructure and the Care Crises: An Evaluation of China's Covid-19 ExperienceYing Chen, Zhongjin Li, and Yang Zhan
• Chapter 4—Work, Wages, and Unemployment in the Pandemic
  • 4.1 Unemployment Insurance: A Safety Net with HolesAlejandro Reuss
  • 4.2 Actual Effects of Enhanced Unemployment BenefitsJohn Miller
  • 4.3 Covid-19 Destroyed the Illusions of the Restaurant IndustryEoin Higgins
  • 4.5 “Hero Pay” and Covid-19David McClough
  • 4.6 Guaranteed Employment or Guaranteed Unemployment—Which Path to a Post-Pandemic World?Pavlina R. Tcherneva
• Chapter 5—Policy Responses to the Crisis
  • 5.1 The Coronavirus Consensus: “Spend, Spend, Spend”Gerald Epstein
  • 5.2 It’ s Time to Ditch “Pay-For” PoliticsYeva Nersisian and L. Randall Wray
  • 5.3 The Fed’s Response to the Coronavirus CrisisEsra Uğurlu and Gerald Epstein
  • 5.4 State and Local Fiscal AusterityAmanda Page-Hoongrajok
  • 5.5 Pandemic MailChristy Pottroff
  • 5.6 Solidarity Beyond the CrisisFrancisco Pérez and Luis Feliz Leon
• Contributors