Nothing to Spare

What Coronavirus Reveals About the Economic Model That Shapes Our Lives

By Cengiz Salman and Anna Watkins Fisher

Photo by Christopher Corneschi (License: CC BY-SA 4.0)

The US is often imagined as a nation of abundance, even excess. However, mere days into the coronavirus crisis, reports emerged of abrupt shortages: shelves without toilet paper, bread, or flour. More concerning still was the lack of disinfectants…