Economic historian Adam Tooze on the post-pandemic global economy

Economic Historian Adam Tooze on the Post-Pandemic Global Economy | GZERO World

October 03, 2021

If 2020 was a dry run for our next big economic disaster, how'd we do? Ian Bremmer spoke to economic historian Adam Tooze about what lessons can be learned from this dark time, as well as his new book Shutdown: How COVID Shook the World Economy.

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