by IPSP | May 10, 2020 | COVID-19 |
Gian Paolo Rossini, IPSP Associate Member, in a short article remarks that actions contrasting climate changes might be of limited efficacy if they bring to the emerging, or the worsening, of other social and environmental criticalities. This contribution is focused...
by IPSP | May 10, 2020 | COVID-19 |
Gian Paolo Rossini, IPSP Associate Member, remarks the current difficulties to finding effective measures supporting the protection of people wealth and health in the current COVID-19 crisis, and the risk that science and political choices might not be hand in hand in...
by IPSP | May 10, 2020 | COVID-19 |
Coordinating Lead Author Gianluca Grimalda intervened in the debate on COVID-19 with a blog on the current and future prospects for global cooperation in the face of the COVID-19 crisis, to express his views on the insufficient concerted reactions in a global...
by IPSP | Apr 19, 2020 | COVID-19 |
IPSP Coordinating Lead Authors, Merike Blofield and Fernando Figueira, co-author a CIPPEC Policy Brief regarding the impacts of COVID-19. This article is available both in English and Spanish.
by IPSP | Apr 19, 2020 | COVID-19 |
Merike Blofield, IPSP Coordinating Lead Author and professor of political science at the University of Miami, co-authored with Bert Hoffmann and Mariana Llanos an article about social impact of the virus crisis in Latin America. The article is published on GIGA Focus...
by IPSP | Apr 19, 2020 | COVID-19 |
Faced with the prospect of economic collapse and even starvation, a fiscal package of 10 percent of GDP is in order. And it is just a question of getting the priorities right. Read professor Kannan’s full op-ed on The Hindu Business Line.
by IPSP | Apr 19, 2020 | COVID-19 |
By K. P. Kannan Recognising the strong link between work and poverty, and the crucial role the working poor play in the functioning of the larger economy, it is imperative for the Indian government to roll out adequate measures in order to mitigate the adverse impact...
by IPSP | Apr 19, 2020 | COVID-19 |
In this article published in the Verfassungsblog.de, Kim Lane Scheppele, professor of sociology and international affairs at Princeton University and IPSP Lead Author, examines the use of emergency powers and the new Hungarian law called “On Protecting Against the...
by IPSP | Apr 19, 2020 | COVID-19 |
In this short article published on Opendemocracy.net, Donatella della Porta, professor of sociology at the Scuola Normale Superiore in Pisa (Italy) and IPSP Coordinating Lead Author, explains how the role of civil society and social movements seems to her as most...
by IPSP | Apr 19, 2020 | COVID-19 |
Hiroshi Ono, professor of human resources management at Hitotsubashi University and IPSP Lead Author was recently interviewed by Bloomberg News regarding the need for more flexible work options in Japan during the COVID-19 lockdown. In this interview Prof. Ono argues...
by IPSP | Apr 19, 2020 | COVID-19 |
This article, co-edited by IPSP lead author and professor of Sociology, Jeff Hearn, is the result of a multi-year Crisis research theme based at Lund University. The analytical tools developed by the authors can find a stark application in the actual health crisis. In...
by IPSP | Apr 19, 2020 | COVID-19 |
By Marc Flurbaey, IPSP Steering Committee member and Professor at Princeton University (USA) April 2020 “We are all in this together” has become the mantra of many policymakers in the first wave of the coronavirus around the world. They are not always acting...
by IPSP | Apr 19, 2020 | COVID-19 |
First published on the STEPS Center blogsite. In this article, Andy Stirling, IPSP lead author and Professor of Science & Technology Policy at SPRU and at the University of Sussex Business School (UK), outlines the implications of the COVID-19 pandemic for...
by IPSP | Apr 12, 2020 | COVID-19 |
Professor Marc Fleurbaey, Steering Committee Member and Contributing Author of the IPSP Report and Manifesto, has created a simulator that offers an intuitive way of understanding the dynamics of the COVID-19 pandemic. This model can be used for personnel who want to...
by IPSP | Apr 12, 2020 | COVID-19 |
What do we know today about Corona and the way it spreads? Why do different countries act differently in reaction to the pandemic? Gustaf Arrhenius, Director of the Institute for Futures Studies in Stockholm and IPSP lead author in conversation with epidemiologist...
by IPSP | Apr 12, 2020 | COVID-19 |
By Prabhat Patnaik It is said that in a crisis everybody becomes a socialist; free markets take a back seat, to the benefit of the working people. During the second world war for instance, when universal rationing was introduced in Britain, the average worker became...
by IPSP | Apr 12, 2020 | COVID-19 |
By Prabhat Patnaik The tragic irony could not have been more complete. India is under lockdown, but thousands of migrant workers are thronging bus stands or marching on the roads, making a mockery of it; the aim of the lockdown is to prevent the spread of the...
by IPSP | Apr 12, 2020 | COVID-19 |
By Prabhat Patnaik Originally published: IDEA’s (March 23, 2020) The coronavirus attack has so far been much less deadly than the Spanish flu of a century ago. That had affected 500 million people worldwide, about 27 per cent of the world’s population of the...
by IPSP | Apr 12, 2020 | COVID-19 |
Read the letter sent to the G-20 leaders and signed by 20 economists, and global health experts. Prof. Nora Lustig, IPSP Coordinating Lead Author is among the signatures. The letter urges world leaders “to urgently provide the necessary resources to reduce the losses...
by IPSP | Apr 12, 2020 | COVID-19 |
Stay tuned. Our Coordinating Lead Author Nora Lustig has teamed up with other colleagues in almost every country in Latin America to create two networks of Latin American economists on policy responses: a WhatsApp group on the COVID-19 economic crisis in Latin...
by IPSP | Apr 12, 2020 | COVID-19 |
Prof. Nora Lustig co-authored an op-ed on the pandemic in Latin America which appeared in El Pais (in Spanish). Read more here after registration on their site. The article has also been provided below. La pandemia en América Latina: una crisis económica sin...
by IPSP | Apr 12, 2020 | COVID-19 |
How can social scientists help political leaders to design policy responses and mitigation strategies for the COVID-19 economic crisis? To find out read Richard Baldwin´s edited e-book –free to download – in which a range of high-level economists proposes viable...
by IPSP | Apr 12, 2020 | COVID-19 |
In this blog post our coordinating lead author Nora Lustig, Professor of Latin American Economics and Director of the Commitment to Equity Institute (CEQ) at Tulane University, explores (with Nancy Birdsall) how “the lockdowns throughout the world are creating a new...
by IPSP | Apr 12, 2020 | COVID-19 |
“What the Coronavirus Curve Teaches Us About Climate Change”. Prof. Paul Slovic, member of the IPSP Scientific Council, president of Decision Research and professor of psychology at the University of Oregon, explains why humans don’t easily grasp the concept of...
by IPSP | Apr 12, 2020 | COVID-19 |
Prof. Rob Reich, IPSP Contributing Author and Professor of Political Science at Stanford University, explains in an op-ed for the WIRED, the dangers of relying on philanthropists during pandemics. “Bill Gates and Jack Ma have stepped in where Donald Trump has failed....
by IPSP | Apr 12, 2020 | COVID-19 |
The new book edited by two of our Scientific Council members, Mary Kaldor and Saskia Sassen, was written just before the crisis and is called “Cities at War” (Columbia University Press, 2020). It came out just a few days ago and may well shed light on the actual...
by IPSP | Apr 12, 2020 | COVID-19 |
“This time is different”. Prof. Saskia Sassen, IPSP Coordinating lead author and sociologist, 2013 Prince of Asturias Award winner, explains to editor Jean Palou of the “Mercurio del Chile” the differences of the COVID-19 economic crisis with the previous crisis....
by IPSP | Apr 11, 2020 | COVID-19 |
“The coronavirus hardly affects any rich person”. Professor Saskia Sassen, IPSP Coordinating lead author and sociologist, 2013 Prince of Asturias Award winner, analyzes the impact of the pandemic on cities and argues that both this situation and climate...
