Video recording: Webinar on COVID and the coming global recession

COVID-19

Global

9 April 2020

A video recording of a webinar held on 8 April with Professor Jayati Ghosh, Quinn Slobodian, Walden Bello and Lebohang Pheko on the likely global impacts of the economic fallout from the Coronavirus and how we might be better prepared than the 2008 economic crisis to put forward progressive solutions.

750 people joined our second webinar in our weekly series on the economic fallout from COVID-19. Many are predicting a global recession that could have bigger social impacts than the virus itself. The webinar explored what can we expect, how social movements can prepare, and what we learn from our failures to advance alternative progressive policies in the wake of the 2008 economic crisis? 

Panellists included:

Professor Jayati Ghosh, award-winning economist Jawaharlal Nehru University, India. Author of India and the International Economy (2015) and co-editor of Handbook of Alternative Theories of Economic Development, 2018.
Quinn Slobodian, associate professor of history, Wellesley College. Author of Globalists: The End of Empire and the Birth of Neoliberalism (2018)
Walden Bello, author of Paper Dragons: China and the Next Crash (2019) and Capitalism’s Last Stand?: Deglobalization in the Age of Austerity (2013) 
Lebohang Liepollo Pheko, Senior Research Fellow of Trade Collective, a thinktank in South Africa that works on international trade, globalisation, regional integration and feminist economics