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Has Covid19 Killed Globalisation?
"Even before the pandemic, globalisation was in trouble… As economies reopen, activity will recover, but don’t expect a quick return to a carefree world of unfettered movement and free trade. The pandemic will politicise travel and migration and entrench a bias towards self-reliance. This inward-looking lurch will enfeeble the recovery, leave the economy vulnerable and spread geopolitical instability." (The Economist, 2020)
Our Democracy Will Survive This Pandemic
"To combat the coronavirus, the state has grown more powerful. What does that mean for liberty and the democratic norms that protect us?" (McTague, 2020)
A new window has opened for deliberative democracy
"During this period of the pandemic, many have remarked how well the national cabinet has worked. It would seem that we need a crisis for politicians to leave politics at the door… With COVID, a little window opened: we witnessed a national conversation quite unlike anything we’ve seen before — and a better way to do politics." (Belgiorno-Nettis, 2020)
How big tech plans to profit from the pandemic
"As the coronavirus continues to kill thousands each day, tech companies are seizing the opportunity to extend their reach and power" (Klein, 2020)
The Bio Revolution: Innovations transforming economies, societies, and our lives
"Advances in biological sciences, combined with the accelerating development of computing, data processing, and artificial intelligence (AI), are fueling a new wave of innovation… This report describes the potential scope and scale of this wave of innovation and highlights the profound risks that will need to be managed" (Chui et. al., 2020).
Americas: Staying Resilient While Trying To Save The World: A Fanzine For Activists And Volunteers
"This comic written and created by young people from all over the Americas is a graphic resource designed to give youth ideas that could help them avoid the most common pitfalls of being an activist, while helping them think of ways to sustain their wellbeing and fight for human rights." (Amnesty International, 2020)
Will coronavirus lead to fairer societies? Thomas Piketty explores the prospect
"The French economist Thomas Piketty is the bestselling author of Capital in the Twenty-First Century (2013) and its follow-up, Capital and Ideology (2019), a sweep through 1,000 years of the history of inequality. Speaking to the Guardian, he said he had been thinking about the opportunities this pandemic may present to build fairer, more equal societies." (Spinney, 2020)
The Age of Green Money
"Could the Covid-19 crisis accelerate the adoption of a new, more equitable and more sustainable development model? ... There must be a clear change in priorities and a certain number of taboos in the monetary and fiscal sphere must be challenged. This sector must work to the benefit of the real economy and used to serve social and ecological goals." (Piketty, 2020)
The Elites Were Living High. Then Came the Fall.
“More than a thousand years before the Greeks invented democracy and the Romans undermined it with imperialism,” Ugarit and Mycenae “of the Bronze Age laid the foundations for what is often called Western civilization...the final decades of Ugarit and Mycenae tell us a lot about why cities fail — and who survives amid the ashes” (Annalee Newitz, 2020).
Parliaments And Crisis: Challenges And Innovations
Firstly, this Primer looks at how parliaments ensured that emergency measures consider the needs of every citizen, and also that any emergency government powers were limited in time and scope, and subject to parliamentary oversight. Second, the Primer examines how parliaments implemented virtual innovative solutions. In closing, it explores how parliaments can improve crisis and disaster planning. (Murphy, 2020).
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