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Record W3158126401 · doi:10.1080/19428200.2020.1885874

COVID-19 in Bulgaria: Moral Economy as Pandemic Relief

2020· article· en· W3158126401 on OpenAlexaboutno aff
Jana Tsoneva

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VenueAnthropology Now · 2020
Typearticle
Languageen
FieldEconomics, Econometrics and Finance
TopicCOVID-19 Pandemic Impacts
Canadian institutionsnot available
Fundersnot available
KeywordsContext (archaeology)BulgarianCitizenshipState (computer science)Economic historyPolitical sciencePoliticsEconomySociologyLawHistoryPhilosophy

Abstract

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Click to increase image sizeClick to decrease image size AcknowledgmentsThe author is grateful to Madlen Nikolova and Georgi Medarov for their help and suggestions.Notes1 Jana Tsoneva, “‘Lex Corona’ in Bulgaria,” Rosa Luxemburg Stiftung, July 4, 2020, https://www.rosalux.de/en/news/id/41930/lex-corona-in-bulgaria?cHash=8bae7acbc883385af170b295c40b2775.2 E. P. Thompson, “The Moral Economy of the English Crowd in the Eighteenth Century,” Past and Present 50, no. (1971): 76–136.3 J. Siméant, “Three Bodies of Moral Economy: The Diffusion of a Concept,” Journal of Global Ethics 11, no. 2 (2015): 163–75.4 Thompson, “Moral Economy,” 98, 112.5 N. Deneva, “Transnational Aging Carers: On Transformation of Kinship and Citizenship in the Context of Migration among Bulgarian Muslims in Spain,” Social Politics: International Studies in Gender, State & Society 19, no. 1 (Spring 2012): 105–28.6 P. A. Dossa and C. Coe, eds. Transnational Aging and Reconfigurations of Kin Work (New Brunswick, NJ: Rutgers University Press, 2017), 144.7 “This Year Bulgarians Working Abroad Are Once Again the Biggest Investor in Bulgarian Economy,” ClubZ, December 24, 2019, https://clubz.bg/92195-i_tazi_godina_bylgarite_zad_granica_sa_naj_golemiqt_investitor_v_bylgariq.8 E. W. Smollett, “The Economy of Jars. Kindred Relationships in Bulgaria,” Ethnologia Europaea, 19, no. 1 (1988).9 C. Humphrey, Marx Went Away but Karl Stayed Behind (Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 1999).10 I. Ivanova and A. Mudeva, “The Bulgarians Produce 209 Million Jars per Year,” dnes.bg, December 23, 2009, https://dnes.dir.bg/obshtestvo/-5602211.11 “1/5 of the Bulgarians Subsist on Grandma’s Jars,” Maritsa.bg, XX, https://www.marica.bg/balgariq/1-5-ot-blgarite-se-izhranvat-s-burkanite-na-baba.12 “The Zimnina Is More Often Procured From the Shop,” bTV, XX, https://btvnovinite.bg/bulgaria/obshtestvo/zimninata-e-vse-po-chesto-ot-magazina.html.13 “IMF: Bulgaria’s Gray Economy Is the Highest in Europe,” Darik News, December 17, 2019, https://dariknews.bg/novini/bylgariia/mvf-sivata-ikonomika-v-bylgariia-e-sred-naj-visokite-v-evropa-2203041.14 N. Draganov, “Bulgaria Broke the Inequality Records Again,” Baricada, April 30, 2020, https://baricada.org/2020/04/30/inequality-2019/.15 The European Commission often scolds Bulgaria’s abysmally inadequate welfare state, stating that it is the only European Union member-state where welfare transfers barely affect poverty and inequality levels. Welfare payments sometimes even entrench and amplify inequality because of workfare reforms, which force welfare claimants to work for their benefits, usually in trash collection, cleaning, public maintenance and so on. Given that the benefits are four to five times lower than the wage they would have collected for doing this work outside the welfare system, workfare creates a reserve labor army that competes with the already badly paid workforce in these sectors and is a legal way of driving the subliving wages lower still.16 Eurostat, “General Government Deficit (−) and Surplus (+)—Annual Data,” XXX, https://ec.europa.eu/eurostat/tgm/table.do?tab=table&plugin=1&language=en&pcode=teina200.17 V. Grigorova, “Analysis of the Socio-Economic Measures Against the Corona-Crisis, March–July 2020,” September 18, 2020, https://solidbul.eu/analiz-merki/.18 NovaTV, “Plamen Dimitrov: The Unemployed Will Reach 330,000 by the End of the Year,” May 8, 2020, https://bit.ly/2ZeySDw.19 “One-Fifth of Bulgarians Declare No Savings,” Pariteni.bg, April 10, 2020, https://www.pariteni.bg/novini/spestjavane/nad-edna-peta-ot-bylgarite-deklarirat-che-niamat-spestiavaniia-234735.20 N. Klein, The Shock Doctrine: The Rise of Disaster Capitalism (New York: Knopf Canada, 2007).21 Daniela Penkova, personal communication, May 1, 2020.22 In actual fact, instances of domestic violence in Bulgaria spiked throughout the quarantine. See https://undocs.org/en/A/HRC/44/52/Add.1.23 R. Mocnik, “Inside the Identity State: Two Types of Fascist Politics,” Eurozine, October 8, 2012, https://www.eurozine.com/inside-the-identity-state/.24 M. Mauss, M. Douglas, and W. D. Halls, The Gift: The Form and reason for Exchange in Archaic Societies (London: Routledge, 2002).25 F. Nietzsche, On the Genealogy of Morals (Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press, 2007).26 A. Tooze, “How Coronavirus Almost Brought Down the Global Financial System,” The Guardian, April 14, 2020, https://www.theguardian.com/business/2020/apr/14/how-coronavirus-almost-brought-down-the-global-financial-system.27 In actual fact, the lockdowns in Europe did not stop international migratory flows, especially of low-paid and precarious workers from the East who were quickly labeled “essential” and flown into West European nursing homes and agricultural fields via “emergency green corridors.”Additional informationNotes on contributorsJana TsonevaJana Tsoneva is a Sofia-based sociologist and a founding member of KOI: an engaged research NGO and publishing house.

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Not calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. Learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and 10,348 direct Gemma labels. Candidate is the union of thresholded teacher heads; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels or direct frontier model labels.

metaresearch head score (Codex)0.001
metaresearch head score (Gemma)0.002
Version: codex-gemma-dda1882f352aValidation status: machine_predicted_unvalidated
Candidate categoriesMeta-epidemiology (narrow), Insufficient payload (model declined to judge)
Consensus categoriesInsufficient payload (model declined to judge)
DomainCandidate signal: none · Consensus signal: none
Study designCandidate signal: Observational · Consensus signal: none
GenreCandidate signal: Empirical · Consensus signal: Empirical
Teacher disagreement score0.824
Threshold uncertainty score1.000

Codex and Gemma teacher scores by category

CategoryCodexGemma
Metaresearch0.0010.002
Meta-epidemiology (narrow)0.0000.000
Meta-epidemiology (broad)0.0010.000
Bibliometrics0.0000.000
Science and technology studies0.0000.001
Scholarly communication0.0000.000
Open science0.0000.000
Research integrity0.0000.000
Insufficient payload (model declined to judge)0.0080.006

Machine scores (provisional)

The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.

Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.

Opus teacher head0.083
GPT teacher head0.322
Teacher spread0.239 · how far apart the two teachers sit on this one work
Validation statusscore_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from it

Classification

machine, unvalidated

Machine predicted; both teacher heads agree on what is shown here.

Study designObservational
Domainnot available
GenreEmpirical

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