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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).
Conflict in the time of coronavirus
"The equation is simple: we cannot effectively respond to a global pandemic when millions of people are still caught in warzones… We must have a global ceasefire, and we must put our collective resources behind making that ceasefire a reality. "
No Return to the ‘Old Dispensation’
“The history of greed, venality, stupidity, cruelty and violence is long because that part of human nature is ineradicable. As the 20th century demonstrated, it is better to bet on a liberal society’s capacity to temper these flaws and iniquities than on a utopia’s false promise to eradicate them. Those promises end being written in blood” (Roger Cohen, 2020).
What Democracy Will Fall Next?
"In March, Hungary became the first democracy to succumb to the coronavirus. With stunning speed, Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban jammed through an emergency decree that gave him extraordinary powers for an indefinite period of time and put in place draconian restrictions on political freedoms" (Feldstein, 2020)
The Post Neo-Liberal World is Already Here
"Across the globe, the economic and social systems we thought we understood have collapsed. Our expectations for normal life… have evaporated. We have no clear timeline on when normal will resume, or where normal will eventually settle." (Wong, 2020)
Communications and COVID-19: Fundamentals for Effective Government to Citizen Crisis Communications
“This Recovery and Resilience Note looks at response and recovery communications for governments and public officials, focusing on effective citizen-centric communications during times of crisis that can be applied at the local and national levels of government during the COVID-19 crisis" (Institute for State Effectiveness, 2020).
There is a glimmer of hope': economists on coronavirus and capitalism
In this article, “Greece’s former finance minister Yanis Varoufakis and Irish economist David McWilliams” discuss “the hope for a global new deal” (Varoufakis and McWilliams, 2020).
The New Great Depression Is Coming. Will There Be a New New Deal?
“As we approach this year’s election, we’re looking at an abyss. The question is what will fill it. Societal disaster can have horrific political consequences: Around the world, despots are using the pandemic as an excuse to grab ever more power. But the need to rebuild the country comes with opportunities” (Michelle Goldberg, 2020).
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