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Capitalism in a Post-Covid World
Debates about economic systems and corporate governance have taken on a new urgency in
the face of the pandemic, as well as of income inequality, climate change, populism, and other
major forces sweeping the world. Can corporations make the enormous changes needed in
their culture and business models to respond effectively to a rapidly changing world, or will it
require governmental action? Is the capitalist system itself outmoded and in need of an
overhaul?
International Journal of Human Rights: Special Issue on human rights and economic policy reform
This volume “brings together experts working on human rights and economic policy from a range of disciplinary perspectives, including economics, law, and development studies” (International Journal of Human Rights, 2020).
A Rights-Based Economy: Putting people and planet first
“In this publication, the Center for Economic and Social Rights (CESR) and Christian Aid – two international organisations working for human rights and economic justice – ask: what would it look like if we had an economy based on human rights?” (Donald et al., 2020).
Stocks are Soaring. So is Misery
“The economy probably doesn’t feel so great to the millions of workers who still haven’t gotten their jobs back and who have just seen their unemployment benefits slashed. The $600 a week supplemental benefit enacted in March has expired, and Trump’s purported replacement is basically a sick joke” (Paul Krugman, 2020).
Risk, resilience, and rebalancing in global value chains
"Applying MGI’s micro-to-macro methodology, this report considers the issues and investment choices facing individual companies as well as the implications for global value chains, trade, and national economies. . It builds on a large multiyear body of MGI research on topics such as global value chains and flows, manufacturing, digitization, and climate risk" (McKinsey & Company, 2020).
The Neoliberal Looting of America
“The current crisis has revealed that the health of the finance industry and stock market is completely disconnected from the actual financial health of the American people. As inequality, unemployment and evictions climb, the Dow Jones surges right alongside them — one line compounding suffering, the other compounding returns for investors” (Mehrsa Baradaran, 2020).
What Facebook and the Oil Industry Have in Common
“Facebook’s core business is to get as many people as possible to spend as many hours as possible on its site, so that it can sell those people’s attention to advertisers...this notion of core business explains a lot—including why it’s so hard to make rapid gains in the fight against climate change” (Bill McKibben, 2020).
We Socialize Bailouts. We Should Socialize Successes, Too.
“Governments have spent trillions on stimulus packages without creating structures — like a citizens’ dividend, which would reward public investment — that turn short-term remedies into the means for an inclusive, sustainable economy. This gets to the heart of what fuels inequality: We socialize risks but privatize rewards” (Mariana Mazzucato, 2020).
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