Global and Social Consequences of the COVID-19 Pandemic

This book directly addresses the social and economic consequences of the COVID-19 pandemic. It does so by focusing on both the immediate effects during the pandemic and the lockdowns, as well as the issues related to the long-term social consequences that are likely to result from the economic crisis in the coming years. To date, most philosophical essays and books have focused on the health aspects of the pandemic, and in particular on the fields of medical ethics and public health ethics. Containing a truly international and interdisciplinary group of scholars, a unique and global perspective is offered on the rarely discussed social and economic consequences of the pandemic. This book is of great interest to academic philosophers, but also to researchers from the social sciences. 

​Gottfried Schweiger is a trained philosopher and has been working as a Senior Scientist at the Centre for Ethics and Poverty Research of the University of Salzburg since 2011. He was visiting researcher in St. Gallen and Bochum. Gottfried (co-)authored several peer-reviewed articles and chapters, (co-)edited volumes, and together with Gunter Graf he wrote two monographs on the philosophy of childhood (both published by Palgrave Macmillan). His latest publication are “Absolute Poverty in Europe. Interdisciplinary Perspectives on a Hidden Phenomenon” (Policy Press 2019, co-edited with Helmut P. Gaisbauer and Clemens Sedmak), the Special Issue “Global Justice for Children” (Journal of Global Ethics 2019, co-edited with Johannes Drerup) and “Poverty, Inequality and the Critical Theory of Recognition” (Springer 2020).