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“Adam Tooze is an economic historian so he brings a historical perspective to the way he writes this first draft of history. It’s not a piece of journalism, but it’s very much addressing something that’s still happening to us.” Read more...
The Best Economics Books of 2021
Diane Coyle, Economist
“Shutdown is a study by an economic historian of the extraordinary financial, economic and political response of governments around the world to Covid. It is a study of the significance of 2020 from China to Trump, in what was potentially a very much greater economic as well as medical crisis than it turned out to be. It is a counter to the view that Covid was going to push the world in a more progressive direction. It compares the interventions with those occasioned by the great financial crisis of 2008. It asks itself a powerful question to which we don’t yet have an answer: why was it that governments were able to spend trillions on supporting economies—everything from banks to people’s salaries—but were not prepared to spend even a fraction of this on ensuring that the whole world was vaccinated? Why, it asks with an eye to the coming climate crisis, are some major interventions possible, and others not? It is an indispensable guide to thinking about the crises of our time.”
The Best Politics Books of 2022, recommended by David Edgerton
