Designing a new economic model: Proposals from constitutional law and feminist economics on care and equality in the face of the COVID-19 crisis

Abstract

The crisis caused by the COVID-19 pandemic has highlighted weaknesses in the economic, health and care system. It has also been a turning point to rethink a cultural change —which was already being forged and which is now becoming more necessary than ever, accompanied by changes in the economic model and new ways of designing public policies— that reorganizes the system of values that govern our society, restoring the value of care and attention to people above other economic interests. This work aims, on the one hand, to reflect on the need to understand the economy from other approaches, with the basis of the universalization of fundamental rights and the action of law inspired by the ethics of care, equality and solidarity,
and on the other hand, to offer proposals from the feminist economy and the constitutional law to face the new post-COVID-19 era.