Abstract: Within months, Covid-19 has fundamentally reconfigured the relationship between the market and the state in Ireland. The ‘Great Lockdown’ has administered a shock to global patterns of production and consumption not seen since the Great Depression (Gopinath, 2020) causing unprecedent levels of job-loss. In Ireland, the hardship of this job-loss has been partially cushioned by the social security response to the crisis, and the introduction of a Pandemic Unemployment Payment. For the hundreds of thousands of citizens receiving this and relat...
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Political economy
Development economics