Introduction : The Covid-19 pandemic, international political economy and social reproduction / Matt Dow and Tim Di Muzio -- Global power, inequality, and climate change. "A once in a lifetime opportunity": Covid-19 in the age of finance / Richard H. Robbins -- The billionaire boom : capital as...

Liberal capitalist polities are being held up as the ultimate civilizational achievement precisely at a point in time when the energy-demanding built environments and growth imperatives of these societies are threatened by global climate change and the coming end of cheap and abundant carbon...