Pandemia, crise econômica e o novo papel do Estado

Abstract

This article offers a political economy analysis of the pandemic and its socioeconomic consequences. Rejecting the idea of ​​the exogeneity of the crisis, it proposes to find the causes of the pandemic in the current organization of the international economy, which is liberalized, financialized, and dominated by monopolistic multinational corporations. It is also from this characterization that some causal mechanisms behind the global economic crisis and the unprecedented resources mobilized by states in combating this crisis are scrutinized, even if asymmetrically distributed between the capitalist center and periphery. Through the analysis of the possible consequences of this crisis, particularly with regard to state reconfiguration, the idea of ​​the end of neoliberalism is rejected, and clues for its eventual overcoming are sought.