The Global Pandemic and Economic Crisis

by: PERI
June 22, 2019 | Commentary
  • Intro Text: PERI's ongoing coverage:> Gerald Epstein, "The Federal Reserve Public Education Emergency Finance Facility: A Proposal"> Robert Pollin, "Nationalize Fossil Fuels and Create Public Banks"> Nancy Folbre, "The Care Theory of Value"> Jayati Ghosh, "The Pandemic and the Global Economy"> Lenore Palladino, "Another Risk for Small Business: Lightly Regulated Fintech Loans"> Lenore Palladino, "Loans Won't Cut It for Flailing Small Businesses"> "Chomsky and Pollin: To Heal From COVID-19, We Must Imagine a Different World"> Robert Pollin, "The Deficit Is Exploding! And That's a Good Thing."> Robert Pollin, "Wanted: Shovel-Ready Projects for a Green New Deal"> Thomas Michl, "The Macroeconomics of COVID-19"> Gerald Epstein, "Debts and Deficits: What Are the Limits, and Why?"
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  • Research or In The Media: Commentary
  • Research Area: Health Policy
  • Publication Date: 2019-06-22
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The Global Pandemic and Economic Crisis

Robert Pollin and C.J. Polychroniou, "If Trump Had Followed Vietnam’s Lead on COVID, U.S. Would Have Fewer than 100 Dead"

Gerald Epstein and C.J. Polychroniou, "If The Fed Can Bail Out Wall Street, It Can Rescue Public Education"

Steve Cohn, "Resisting Sinophobia and a New Cold War"

Ebru Voyvoda and Erinç Yeldan, "Impact of the COVID-19 Outbreak on Turkey’s Economy and a Policy Alternative for Protecting Labor Incomes"

Gerald Epstein, "Economists: Raise Revenue to Balance Budget"

Vamsi Vakulabharanam and Sripad Motiram, "Pandemics and Indian Cities"

Edward J. Kane, "Good News and Bad News About Newly Imagined Federal Reserve Credit-Allocation Policies"

Robert Pollin, "Climate Crisis and the Coronavirus"

Isabella Weber, "Viral Politics: Left Perspectives on the World and China"

UMass Amherst Dept of Economics, "Statement on Racist Violence and Social Exclusion"

Rekang Jankie, "The Responsibility of the South African Reserve Bank"

Isabella Weber, "Global Division of Labor Across Two Eras of Globalization: A Long-Term View on the COVID-19 Crisis"

Lenore Palladino, "Hourly Employees Should Be Represented on Walmart's Board of Directors"

Isabella Weber, Hao Qi, and Zhongjin Li, "China Is not the Enemy - Neoliberalism Is"

Robert Pollin, "The Pandemic, the Economic Crisis, and Just Transition: Webinar with Noam Chomsky, Robert Pollin and Thea Lee"

Gerald Epstein, "Human Capital Bonds and Federal Reserve Support for Public Education"

Lenore Palladino, "Seattle Is Considering an Amazon Tax"

Deepankar Basu and Priyanka Srivastava, "COVID-19 Comparative Data Among India, Pakistan, Bangladesh, and Sri Lanka"

Robert Pollin, Jeannette Wicks-Lim and Peter Arno, "Assessing the Medicare Crisis Proposal"

Gerald Epstein, "The Federal Reserve Public Education Emergency Finance Facility (PEEFF): A Proposal"

Esra Ugurlu, "Financing Needs of Developing Countries in the Wake of Covid-19: The Role of Special Drawing Rights"

Adam Aboobaker and Ihsaan Bassier, "Three Ways to Finance the COVID-19 Policy Response"

Robert Pollin, "Nationalize Fossil Fuels and Create Public Banks"

Nancy Folbre, "The Care Theory of Value"

Jayati Ghosh, "The Pandemic and the Global Economy"

Lenore Palladino, "Another Risk for Small Business: Lightly Regulated Fintech Loans"

Lenore Palladino, "Loans Won't Cut It for Flailing Small Businesses"

"Chomsky and Pollin: To Heal From COVID-19, We Must Imagine a Different World"

Robert Pollin, "The Deficit Is Exploding! And That's a Good Thing."

Robert Pollin, "Wanted: Shovel-Ready Projects for a Green New Deal"

Thomas Michl, "The Macroeconomics of COVID-19"

Gerald Epstein, "Debts and Deficits: What Are the Limits, and Why?"

Peter Arno and Philip Caper, "Medicare for Each of Us in the Age of the Coronavirus"

Gerald Epstein, The Fed and the Coronavirus Crisis

Gerald Epstein, "An Economist Speaks about COVID-19 and the Economic Impact"

Robert Pollin, "Robert Pollin on COVID-19 Stimulus Bill"

Jayati Ghosh, "Impact of the COVID-19 Pandemic on the Global Economy"

Deepankar Basu, "COVID-19 in India"

Lenore Palladino, "End Shareholder Primacy Once and For All"

Stephanie Luce, "It Didn't Have to Be Like This"

Jayati Ghosh, "Coronavirus Lockdown Has Already Done More Damage to Indian Economy than Demonetization"

Gerald Epstein, "The Coronavirus Consensus: 'Spend, Spend, Spend'"

Jayati Ghosh, “The Covid-19 Debt Deluge”

Robert Pollin, “We are Facing Economic Collapse on Top of a Pandemic. What We Do Now Matters”

Doug Henwood, "A Few Ambitious Points on Fighting the Crisis"

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