This is Jacobin Radio. I'm Susie Wiseman. On today's show we're going to look at the continuing multiple crises and challenges brought by the coronavirus pandemic.

Employment, markets, production, and distribution worldwide are practically at a

standstill and the normal way of doing things through the capitalist market has shown itself

to be incapable of responding adequately to deal with the needs of the

moment to protect the population.

We begin with James K. Galbraith at the University of Texas in Austin.

He has written an article in the nation about the mobilization that must start now,

and we're going to get his views on why the economy as organized now has been unable to sufficiently respond and what concrete measures need to be

taken to meet the challenges from here.

We're then going to talk to Aaron Beninov at the University of Chicago, he writes about employment

and especially the irregular, informal, and precarious forms of employment that

characterize work today.

Aaron has just published an article on the cataclysmic unemployment resulting from the essential

shutdown of the American economy and we'll get his ideas and his findings all this when Jacobin Radio. I'm Susie Weisman.

I'm Susie Weisman and as we continue in our look at what the coronavirus pandemic is doing to all of us and to the economy,

I'm really pleased to have with us James K. Galbraith, he teaches

at the University of Texas in Austin, and he's the author most recently of two books that came

out pretty much at the same time inequality, what

everyone needs to know and the other one is welcome to the poison chalice the

destruction of Greece and the future of Europe and he's also writing pretty much everywhere right now and you can catch his articles in the Guardian at Inet Institute for new economic thinking and the nation and we're going to be talking a little bit about all of them

but especially the article in the nation that is titled the mobilization that must start now

beautifully written article and incredibly practical. So welcome, first of all, Jamie Miguel Brett, to the show.

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