The Covid-19 disaster represents an opportunity for the human race—one in which each one of us has a meaningful part to play. We are all inside the crucible right now, and the choices we make over the weeks and months to come will, collectively, determine the shape and defining characteristics of the next era. However big we’re thinking about the future effects of this pandemic, we can think bigger. As has been said in other settings, but never more to the point: “A crisis is a terrible thing to waste.”
https://www.opendemocracy.net/en/transformation/coronavirus-spells-the-end-of-the-neoliberal-era-whats-next/
https://www.opendemocracy.net/en/transformation/coronavirus-spells-the-end-of-the-neoliberal-era-whats-next/
openDemocracy
Coronavirus spells the end of the neoliberal era. What’s next?
Will the world after Covid-19 be “Fortress Earth” or societies transformed?
“Don’t compromise,” he told me, “you start compromising on a small thing and soon you are one of them.”
Thwas Thandika — he was a mentor and an inspiration to many of us.
jacobinmag.com/2020/04/thandika-mkandawire-development-economics/
Thwas Thandika — he was a mentor and an inspiration to many of us.
jacobinmag.com/2020/04/thandika-mkandawire-development-economics/
Jacobinmag
We Just Lost a Giant of Development Economics
When the world was shifting toward neoliberalism, blind to shocking inequalities, Thandika Mkandawire (1940–2020) bravely stood up for the welfare state. We should remember him as a brilliant economist and committed egalitarian.
Global inequality is now so high that the global Gini coefficient, which measures the level of inequality across the world, is about the same as South Africa’s — one of the most unequal societies on the planet.
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2020 will be the first year of falling global GDP since WWII. And it was only the final years of WWII/aftermath when output fell.
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