Unprecedented?_ How COVID-19 Revealed the Politics of Our Economy

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Unprecedented?: How COVID-19 Revealed the Politics of Our Economy
by William Davies, Sahil Jai Dutta, Nick Taylor, Martina Tazzioli
English | 2022 | ISBN: ‎ 1913380122 | 316 pages | True EPUB | 613.04 KB

A critical and evidence-based account of the COVID-19 pandemic as a political-economic rupture, exposing underlying power struggles and social injustices.

The dawn of the COVID-19 pandemic represented an exceptional interruption in the routines of work, financial markets, movement across borders and education. The policies introduced in response were said to be unprecedented-but the distribution of risks and rewards was anything but. While asset-owners, outsourcers, platforms and those in spacious homes prospered, others faced new hardships and dangers.

Unprecedented? explores the events of 2020-21, as they afflicted the UK economy, as a means to grasp the underlying dynamics of contemporary capitalism, which are too often obscured from view. It traces the political and cultural contours of a "rentier nationalism," that was lurking prior to the pandemic, but was accelerated and illuminated by COVID-19. But it also pinpoints the...

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