THE WORLD IN LOCKDOWN
Robert Misik in conversation with Adam Tooze
THE WORLD IN LOCKDOWN
The global crisis and its consequences
In his breathtaking new book, Adam Tooze tells the story of the twelve months from January 2020 to January 2021. At the beginning, Xi Jinping announces to the world that a new deadly virus is spreading in China. At the end, Joe Biden moves into the White House as Donald Trump's successor. In between are the shockwaves of a devastating pandemic that leaves no continent, no country and no population unscathed.
The brilliant economic historian not only describes very precisely how and why states and national economies have each reacted to the events in their own way and with very different results. He does something that is new: he analyses the pandemic in the context of the other major crises of our time, from the still smouldering financial crisis to the climate crisis and the refugee crisis.
"World in Lockdown" is a profound diagnosis of the present and a book from which we can learn how the globalised world in which we live today works, and finally looks to what could still await us in the future.
The conversation leads Robert Misik, Author and journalist, in English.
Adam Tooze is the author of the highly acclaimed books "The Economics of Destruction" and "Crashed" and is regarded as one of the leading economic historians of our time. After stints at Cambridge and Yale, he now teaches at Columbia University. His work has won several awards, including the prestigious Wolfson Prize for History and the H-Soz-Kult Historical Book Prize.
His latest book will be published by C.H. Beck Verlag on 16 September 2021. Translation from English by Andreas Withensohn.
Book tip:
Adam Tooze:
The world in lockdown. The global crisis and its consequences
978-3-406-77346-4, 408 p, Hardcover, 26,95 €
C.H. Beck Publishing House, 2021