Economy
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Clocking off during coronavirus: why capitalism won’t wait any longer
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In normal times, the slightest dip in productivity is enough to bring even the most stoic of billionaires to tears. But when public health measures threatened to suspend the productive process altogether, the floodgates opened. As calls to re-open schools, shops, and workplaces were heeded, it became clear that the cost of billionaire counselling was…
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The Batsman’s Responsibility: China’s Liability for its Wet Markets under International Law
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Background and Introduction Between Covid-19 being dubbed as the “Chinese virus” and the Chinese being vilified for their traditional food habits, the People’s Republic of China has witnessed countless controversies over the recent pandemic. Several studies including the World Health Organisation have shown how the virus originally bred in bats and snakes and have attempted…
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Clinical Economics
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The first thing that almost any student from my university will tell you, when pressed about the Return Service Agreement (RSA), is that service shouldn’t be for sale. One of the most contentious issues of UP Manila life is how every student of a health sciences program who has lost sleep over an exam the…
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Can you put a price on saving a life from coronavirus?
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The novel Coronavirus pandemic has stopped the world in its tracks. In particular, the onslaught of cases and community spread in the United States has sent the Federal Government into a full-blown panic. After poo-pooing the virus for weeks as something less dangerous than the common Flu, the government has begun to roll out plans…
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Banks are now an arm of the state
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The Covid-19 pandemic that is gripping the nation has been frequently compared to the 2008 financial crisis, as both have had devastating impacts on our livelihoods, wellbeing and sense of security. On a global scale there have been many crises since 2008 that have had an equally destressing impact on certain groups, but most of…
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Beyond the GDP: How the African Development Bank could grow Africans
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OXFORD, England – While tracking the trajectory of African economies, the African Development Bank (AfDB) must be wary of overlooking the most essential constituent of Africa’s economic potential, a healthy African. It is cliché that the youthful African population promises a brighter future for the continental economy. But it must be remembered that it is…
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Book Review: Genealogies of Capitalist Realism
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Eugene McCarraher (2019), The Enchantments of Mammon: How Capitalism Became the Religion of Modernity. Harvard University Press.Thomas Piketty (2020), Capital and Ideology. Harvard University Press. ‘It’s easier to imagine the end of the world than the end of capitalism’. Such was the strange malaise of our times as captured by the late Mark Fisher’s notion…
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An Interview with Robert Reich: On the Future of Labour
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The Oxford Political Review speaks with Robert Reich, former US Secretary of Labor during Bill Clinton’s administration, leading labour economist, and current Chancellor’s Professor of Public Policy at the University of California at Berkeley and Senior Fellow at the Blum Center for Developing Economies. In the interview, Editor-in-Chief Brian Wong and Robert Reich discuss the…