Historian Adam Tooze on How the Pandemic Exposed Failures of Globalization, Economic Order

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🗓️ 16 September 2021

⏱️ 55 minutes

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In his new book “Shutdown: How Covid Shook the World's Economy,” historian Adam Tooze analyzes the different ways governments around the world responded to the pandemic and what their responses say about the way power works in the modern world. Synthesizing information from dozens of countries, Tooze traces various levels of economic interaction and their impacts “from main streets to central banks, from families to factories, from favelas to traders.” Tooze joins us to discuss “Shutdown” and share his thoughts on what we can learn from the pandemic when it comes to preparing for future global “polycrises.” Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:43.8	Welcome to Forum. I'm Alexis Madrigal.
0:57.4	The coronavirus pandemic was perhaps the single most global event in history.
1:02.2	No country has gone untouched.
1:04.3	Today on the show, we have historian and critic Adam Too's,
1:07.4	whose new book, Shutdown How COVID Shook the World's Economy,
1:12.0	reckons with the different responses of the world's governments and what they say about how power actually
1:16.5	works in the modern world. There's so much that Americans haven't metabolized about our place
1:21.3	in the global order, how financial capitalism has adapted to the post-mortgage crash realities,
1:27.1	and as Tews puts it, our
1:28.4	unbalanced relationship to nature.
1:30.9	This is one of those books that teaches us how to see the world, so stay tuned for Forum after
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