Oil, COVID-19 and the global economy
By Cyrus Bina, The freefall of contract oil (i.e. the futures market in WTI) is due to an immediate halt in global demand f
Special Call for Papers: Feminist Economic Perspectives on the Covid-19 Pandemic
Guest Editors: Naila Kabeer, Shahra Razavi and Yana van der Meulen Rodgers Submission deadline: May 31, 2020 Much of wh
COVID-19 and Circuits of Capital
by Rob Wallace, Alex Liebman, Luis Fernando Chaves and Rodrick Wallace COVID-19, the illness caused by coronaviru
The COVID-19 Recession: Unprecedented Collapse and the Need for Macro Policy
By Steven Fazzari, In the past week, it has quickly become clear that the social distancing required to mitigate the spr
The need for class, race and gender-sensitive policies to fight the COVID-19 crisis
By Luiza Nassif-Pires, Laura de Lima Xavier, Thomas Masterson, Michalis Nikiforos & Fernando Rios-Avila Dispro
COVID-19 Crisis Has Exposed Absurdities of Neoliberalism. That Doesn’t Mean It’ll Destroy It
By Costas Lapavitsas, The COVID-19 public health emergency has rapidly turned into a crisis at the core of the world eco
COVID-19 and the Global Economy
A lecture and Q&A with Jayati Ghosh on the impact of COVID-19 on the global economy and the periphery in particular
Social Reproduction Theory And Why We Need it to Make Sense of the COVID-19 Crisis
By Tithi Bhattacharya, When I think back on this crisis in the years to come, two images will stay with me. One is of ordina
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THE FOLLOWING COMMENTARY WAS DELIVERED BY MICHAEL MEEROPOL PROFESSOR EMERITUS OF ECONOMICS AT WESTERN NEW ENGLAND UN