Abstract In this article, we analyze the management of the global coronavirus pandemic with a critical focus on global neoliberalism and from the perspective of Latin America. As we argue, after decades of austerity programs and multiple rounds of macroeconomic crises, many lessons can be gleaned as to how global neoliberalism operates. In order to make sense of the global response to the pandemic and how it has been presented to the public, we not only draw on almost a half century of economic history—Latin American and otherwise—but also on the theoretical framework established by Karl and Kari Polanyi. As we argue, the pandemic response can be best understood as the most recent example of Disaster Capitalism, with the underlying goal of strengthening and expanding the reach of the global neoliberal project, and neutralizing any response to it.

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十字路口：大流行的政治经济学

摘要 在本文中，我们分析了全球冠状病毒大流行的管理，重点关注全球新自由主义并从拉丁美洲的角度出发。正如我们所说，经过数十年的紧缩计划和多轮宏观经济危机，可以收集到许多关于全球新自由主义如何运作的经验教训。为了理解全球对大流行的反应以及它是如何呈现给公众的，我们不仅借鉴了近半个世纪的经济史——拉丁美洲和其他国家——而且还借鉴了卡尔和其他人建立的理论框架。卡里·波兰尼。正如我们所争论的，大流行的反应最好被理解为灾难资本主义的最新例子，其基本目标是加强和扩大全球新自由主义项目的影响力，并抵消对它的任何反应。