The Coronavirus Crisis Reader (2nd edition)

Edited by Gerald Friedman, Elizabeth T. Henderson, Abhilasha Srivastava, Chris Sturr, and the Dollars & Sense collective

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.

TABLE OF CONTENTS

• Chapter 1—Origins And Contours of The Crisis
  • 1.1 Coronavirus: A Capitalist Crisis
    Richard D. Wolff
  • 1.2 The Trump Administration Was Ruining the Pre-Covid-19 Economy Too, Just More Slowly
    Josh Bivens
  • 1.3 Covid-19 and Catastrophe Capitalism
    John Bellamy Foster and Intan Suwandi, as edited by the Dollars & Sense collective
  • 1.4 Disaster Capitalism and Covid-19
    Bryan Snyder
  • 1.5 The Stock Market and the Coronavirus Crisis
    John Miller
  • 1.6 Caring by the Dollar: Nursing Homes, Private Equity, and Covid-19
    Bill 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 Crisis
    Alejandro Reuss
  • 2.3 How Inequality Kills, and How to Fight It in the Era of Covid-19
    Alejandro Reuss
    
    
• Chapter 3—Global Responses to the Crisis
  • 3.1 The Pandemic and the Global Economy
    Jayati 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 India
    Smriti Rao
  • 3.4 Essential—and Expendable—Mexican Labor
    Mateo Crossa and James M. Cypher
  • 3.5 Responding to Covid-19: A Review of Cuba’ s Strategy
    Zaeem Hassan Mehmood
  • 3.6 Community Infrastructure and the Care Crises: An Evaluation of China's Covid-19 Experience
    Ying Chen, Zhongjin Li, and Yang Zhan
    
    
• Chapter 4—Work, Wages, and Unemployment in the Pandemic
  • 4.1 Unemployment Insurance: A Safety Net with Holes
    Alejandro Reuss
  • 4.2 Actual Effects of Enhanced Unemployment Benefits
    John Miller
  • 4.3 Covid-19 Destroyed the Illusions of the Restaurant Industry
    Eoin Higgins
  • 4.5 “Hero Pay” and Covid-19
    David 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” Politics
    Yeva Nersisian and L. Randall Wray
  • 5.3 The Fed’s Response to the Coronavirus Crisis
    Esra Uğurlu and Gerald Epstein
  • 5.4 State and Local Fiscal Austerity
    Amanda Page-Hoongrajok
  • 5.5 Pandemic Mail
    Christy Pottroff
  • 5.6 Solidarity Beyond the Crisis
    Francisco Pérez and Luis Feliz Leon

Edition: 2nd
Publication date:
ISBN: 978-1-939402-55-4
Pages: 154
Price: $19.50