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The Potential Impact Of The Covid-19 Pandemic On Political Finance Systems: Insights From Recent Public Funding Reforms
This Technical Paper analyses case studies of past public funding reforms and provides practical insights for states considering reform during and in the aftermath of the COVID-19 pandemic. (IDEA, 2020)
The future of work in Europe
Beyond COVID-19, automation, migration and shrinking labor supply are shifting the geography of employment
Crumbs for the Hungry but Windfalls for the Rich
“While President Trump and his allies in Congress seek to tighten access to food stamps, they are showing compassion for one group: zillionaires. Their economic rescue package quietly allocated $135 billion — yes, that’s “billion” with a “b” — for the likes of wealthy real estate developers” (Nicholas Kristof, 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).
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)
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 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)
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).
Mark Carney on how the economy must yield to human values
"In recent years, the market economy has become the market society. The virus could reverse that trend" (Carney, 2020)
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