Date, time	31 Jan, 13:15 - 15:00
Location	305
Teacher	Bryan Mabee
Slides	US1221 - Lecture - Crisis, inequality and the Covid-19 pandemic - VT24.pdf
Reading	Mandatory reading for this class (for suggested reading see below): Davies, Sara E. et al. (2023), ‘Centering Social Reproduction during Crisis: Women’s Experiences of Food Insecurity in Myanmar, Papua New Guinea, and the Philippines during the COVID-19 Pandemic’, Review of International Political Economy, Published online: 13 Jul 2023 Tooze, Adam (2021), ‘Economy on Life Support’, in Shutdown: How COVID Shook the World's Economy, New York: Viking, chap. 7. [pdf]

The lecture follows on from the broader focus on finance and crisis in the previous class, to focus more on problems of inequality that emerge from economic crises. The session begins with a general discussion of the politics of crisis and economic inequality, and then examines these issues in the case of the economic crisis linked to the COVID-19 pandemic. Examining the COVID-19 crisis as a political economic crisis also helps to demonstrate the intersection of a variety of global crises (e.g. economic, health, environmental).

Suggestions for additional reading

Jones, Lee & Shahar Hameiri (2022), ‘COVID-19 and the failure of the neoliberal regulatory state’, Review of International Political Economy, 29(4): 1027-1052

Lipscy, Phillip Y. (2020), ‘COVID-19 and the Politics of Crisis’, International Organization 74, no. S1 (2020): E98–E127
Martins, Nuno (2011), ‘Globalisation, Inequality and the Economic Crisis’, New Political Economy, 16(1): 1-18.
Streeck, Wolfgang (2014), ‘How Will Capitalism End?’, New Left Review, Vol. 87 (May/June): 35-64.