Everyone desperately wants to know what the post-pandemic world will look like. Adam Tooze has been thinking hard about it and he thinks he knows.
Comparing the US experience to China’s, he notes how cultural and political differences have determined successes and failures in dealing with the unprecedented challenge of COVID-19. Tooze argues that, like soldiers returning from mortal combat, we are suffering from a kind of national — and even global — PTSD.
Tooze, Columbia University history and economics professor is the author of Shutdown: How Covid Shook the World's Economy.
My WhoWhatWhy conversation with Adam Tooze::
