147 lines
4.7 KiB
YAML
147 lines
4.7 KiB
YAML
abstract: 'The COVID-19 pandemic has impacted billions of lives across the world
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and has revealed and worsened the social and economic inequalities that
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have emerged over the past several decades. As governments consider
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public health and economic strategies to respond to the crisis, it is
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critical they also address the weaknesses of their economic and social
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systems that inhibited their ability to respond comprehensively to the
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pandemic. These same weaknesses have also undermined efforts to advance
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equality and sustainability. This paper explores over 30 interventions
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across the following nine categories of change that hold the potential
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to address inequality, provide all citizens with access to essential
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goods and services, and advance progress towards sustainability: (1)
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Income and wealth transfers to facilitate an equitable increase in
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purchasing power/disposable income; (2) broadening worker and citizen
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ownership of the means of production and supply of services, allowing
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corporate profit-taking to be more equitably distributed; (3) changes in
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the supply of essential goods and services for more citizens; (4)
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changes in the demand for more sustainable goods and services desired by
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people; (5) stabilizing and securing employment and the workforce; (6)
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reducing the disproportionate power of corporations and the very wealthy
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on the market and political system through the expansion and enforcement
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of antitrust law such that the dominance of a few firms in critical
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sectors no longer prevails; (7) government provision of essential goods
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and services such as education, healthcare, housing, food, and mobility;
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(8) a reallocation of government spending between military operations
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and domestic social needs; and (9) suspending or restructuring debt from
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emerging and developing countries. Any interventions that focus on
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growing the economy must also be accompanied by those that offset the
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resulting compromises to health, safety, and the environment from
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increasing unsustainable consumption. This paper compares and identifies
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the interventions that should be considered as an important foundational
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first step in moving beyond the COVID-19 pandemic and towards
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sustainability. In this regard, it provides a comprehensive set of
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strategies that could advance progress towards a component of
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Sustainable Development Goal (SDG) 10 to reduce inequality within
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countries. However, the candidate interventions are also contrasted with
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all 17 SDGs to reveal potential problem areas/tradeoffs that may need
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careful attention.'
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affiliation: 'Ashford, NA (Corresponding Author), MIT, Technol \& Law Program, 77
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Massachusetts Ave, Cambridge, MA 02139 USA.
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Ashford, Nicholas A., MIT, Technol \& Law Program, 77 Massachusetts Ave, Cambridge,
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MA 02139 USA.
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Hall, Ralph P.; Showalter, Amy L., Virginia Tech, Sch Publ \& Int Affairs, Blacksburg,
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VA 24061 USA.
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Arango-Quiroga, Johan, Harvard Univ, Sustainabil Program, Extens Sch, Cambridge,
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MA 02138 USA.
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Metaxas, Kyriakos A., MIT, Sloan Sch Management, 77 Massachusetts Ave, Cambridge,
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MA 02139 USA.'
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article-number: '5404'
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author: Ashford, Nicholas A. and Hall, Ralph P. and Arango-Quiroga, Johan and Metaxas,
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Kyriakos A. and Showalter, Amy L.
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author-email: 'nashford@mit.edu
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rphall@vt.edu
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johanarangoquiroga@alumni.harvard.edu
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kmetaxas@sloan.mit.edu
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amyls@vt.edu'
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author_list:
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- family: Ashford
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given: Nicholas A.
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- family: Hall
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given: Ralph P.
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- family: Arango-Quiroga
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given: Johan
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- family: Metaxas
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given: Kyriakos A.
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- family: Showalter
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given: Amy L.
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da: '2023-09-28'
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doi: 10.3390/su12135404
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eissn: 2071-1050
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files: []
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journal: SUSTAINABILITY
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keywords: 'COVID-19; earning capacity; environment; essential goods and services;
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future of work; inequality; labor; safety net; universal basic income;
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sustainable development goals (SDGs); sustainability'
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keywords-plus: DEVELOPMENT GOALS; MINIMUM-WAGE; TECHNOLOGY; CAPITALISM; FALL
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language: English
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month: JUL
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number: '13'
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number-of-cited-references: '158'
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orcid-numbers: 'Hall, Ralph/0000-0003-4788-0976
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Ashford, Nicholas/0000-0003-3572-268X
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Arango-Quiroga, Johan/0000-0001-7821-2335'
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papis_id: 45c252f45d21b8790c7c7288b13fc532
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ref: Ashford2020addressinginequality
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researcherid-numbers: 'Hall, Ralph/AAA-6491-2021
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times-cited: '41'
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title: 'Addressing Inequality: The First Step Beyond COVID-19 and Towards Sustainability'
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type: article
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unique-id: WOS:000550209700001
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usage-count-last-180-days: '3'
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usage-count-since-2013: '66'
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volume: '12'
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web-of-science-categories: 'Green \& Sustainable Science \& Technology; Environmental
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Sciences;
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Environmental Studies'
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year: '2020'
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