Abstract

The Editorial Board of Economy and Society has assembled a virtual collection of 12 free access papers to mark a very significant anniversary – Volume 50 of the journal is being published during 2021. This overview explains the rationale for the collection in the context of the global coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic, and briefly details why we want to encourage the re-reading of these particular papers. Each paper has the potential to contribute to critical understandings and progressive political engagements with economy and society in COVID times. Read together, the collection also signals the kind of work which is likely to shape the immediate future of the journal. Economy and Society has long been a key venue for the publication of social science research into public health, disease and the life sciences, and this is at the core of the collection. But the global pandemic has wrought severe disruptions throughout economy and society, forcing a host of latent tendencies, tensions and divisions to the surface of public consciousness and political debate. Around half of the papers have therefore been selected because they cast a revealing light on some of the wider-ranging dynamics of economy and society that have become all too apparent in COVID times.

摘要

经济与社会编辑委员会已收集了12份免费阅读论文的虚拟收藏，以纪念一个非常重要的周年纪念-该期刊的第50卷将于2021年出版。 （COVID-19）大流行，并简要说明了我们为什么要鼓励重新阅读这些特定论文。每篇论文都有可能有助于在COVID时代促进对经济和社会的批判性理解和逐步的政治参与。一起阅读，该馆藏也预示着可能会影响该期刊近期发展的工作类型。经济与社会长期以来，它一直是发表有关公共卫生，疾病和生命科学的社会科学研究的重要场所，这是该收藏的核心。但是，全球大流行在整个经济和社会中造成了严重破坏，迫使许多潜在趋势，紧张局势和分歧浮出水面，引起了公众意识和政治辩论。因此，大约有一半的论文被选中，是因为它们揭示了一些在COVID时代变得十分明显的经济和社会动态变化。