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FINALIST FOR THE ORWELL PRIZE FOR POLITICAL WRITING 2022<BR> <BR> THE TIMES BOOKS OF THE YEAR 2021<BR> <BR> 'A complex story, which Tooze tells with clarity and verve... The world is unlikely to be treated to a better account of the economics of the pandemic' The Times<BR><BR> From the author of Crashed comes a gripping short history of how Covid-19 ravaged the global economy, and where it leaves us now<BR> <BR> When the news first began to trickle out of China about a new virus in December 2019, risk-averse financial markets were alert to its potential for disruption. Yet they could never have predicted the total economic collapse that would follow in COVID-19's wake, as stock markets fell faster and harder than at any time since 1929, currencies across the world plunged, investors panicked, and even gold was sold.<BR><BR> In a matter of weeks, the world's economy was brought to an abrupt halt by governments trying to contain a spiralling public health catastrophe. Flights were grounded; supply chains broken; industries from tourism to oil to hospitality collapsed overnight, leaving hundreds of millions of people unemployed. Central banks responded with unprecedented interventions, just to keep their economies on life-support. For the first time since the second world war, the entire global economic system contracted.<BR><BR> This book tells the story of that shutdown. We do not yet know how this story ends, or what new world we will find on the other side. In this fast-paced, compelling and at times shocking analysis, Adam Tooze surveys the wreckage, and looks at where we might be headed next.<BR><BR>'A seriously impressive book, both endlessly quotable and rigorously analytical' Oliver Bullough, The Guardian<BR>

CORONA CUT - DIE PANDEMIE UND DIE ZUKUNFT DER GLOBALISIERTEN WELT <BR> <BR>Adam Tooze erzählt in seinem atemberaubenden Buch die Geschichte der zwölf Monate vom Januar 2020 bis Januar 2021. Am Anfang gibt Xi Jinping der Weltöffentlichkeit bekannt, dass sich in China ein tödliches neues Virus ausbreitet. Am Ende zieht Joe Biden als Nachfolger von Donald Trump ins Weiße Haus ein. Dazwischen liegen die Schockwellen einer Pandemie, die keinen Kontinent, kein Land und keine Bevölkerung ungeschoren lässt. <BR>Der brillante Wirtschaftshistoriker Tooze schildert nicht nur, wie und warum Staaten und nationale Ökonomien auf jeweils eigene Weise und mit sehr unterschiedlichen Resultaten auf das Geschehen reagiert haben. Er analysiert die Pandemie auch im Kontext der anderen großen Krisen unserer Zeit, von der Finanzkrise über die Klimakrise bis zur Flüchtlingskrise. Welt im Lockdown ist eine tiefenscharfe Diagnose der Gegenwart und ein Buch, aus dem man lernen kann, wie die globalisierte Welt funktioniert, in der wir heute leben. <BR> <BR> - Spannend wie ein Thriller - Adam Tooze beschreibt unsere Welt im radikalen Wandel<BR> - Wie gehen die Regierungen weltweit mit der nie dagewesenen Krise um und welche Konsequenzen hat das?<BR> - Eine tiefgreifende Analyse unserer Gegenwart weit über die Corona-Krise hinaus<BR> - Tooze gilt als einer der besten Wirtschaftshistoriker seiner Generation<BR>

Winner of the 2019 Lionel Gelber Prize<BR><BR>'Majestic, informative and often delightful ... insights on every page' Yanis Varoufakis, Observer<BR><BR>The definitive history of the Great Financial Crisis, from the acclaimed author of The Deluge and The Wages of Destruction. <BR><BR>In September 2008 the Great Financial Crisis, triggered by the collapse of Lehman brothers, shook the world. A decade later its spectre still haunts us. As the appalling scope and scale of the crash was revealed, the financial institutions that had symbolised the West's triumph since the end of the Cold War, seemed - through greed, malice and incompetence - to be about to bring the entire system to its knees.<BR><BR>Crashed is a brilliantly original and assured analysis of what happened and how we were rescued from something even worse - but at a price which continues to undermine democracy across Europe and the United States. Gnawing away at our institutions are the many billions of dollars which were conjured up to prevent complete collapse. Over and over again, the end of the crisis has been announced, but it continues to hound us - whether in Greece or Ukraine, whether through Brexit or Trump. Adam Tooze follows the trail like no previous writer and has written a book compelling as history, as economic analysis and as political horror story.

WINNER OF THE LOS ANGELES TIMES PRIZE FOR HISTORY <BR><BR>FINANCIAL TIMES AND NEW STATESMAN BOOKS OF THE YEAR 2014<BR><BR>On the centenary of the outbreak of the First World War, Deluge is a powerful explanation of why the war's legacy continues to shape our world - from Adam Tooze, the Wolfson Prize-winning author of The Wages of Destruction<BR><BR>In the depths of the Great War, with millions of dead and no imaginable end to the conflict, societies around the world began to buckle. As the cataclysmic battles continued, a new global order was being born.<BR><BR>Adam Tooze's panoramic new book tells a radical, new story of the struggle for global mastery from the battles of the Western Front in 1916 to the Great Depression of the 1930s. The war shook the foundations of political and economic order across Eurasia. Empires that had lasted since the Middle Ages collapsed into ruins. New nations sprang up. Strikes, street-fighting and revolution convulsed much of the world. And beneath the surface turmoil, the war set in motion a deeper and more lasting shift, a transformation that continues to shape the present day: 1916 was the year when world affairs began to revolve around the United States. <BR><BR>America was both a uniquely powerful global force: a force that was forward-looking, the focus of hope, money and ideas, and at the same time elusive, unpredictable and in fundamental respects unwilling to confront these unwished for responsibilities. Tooze shows how the fate of effectively the whole of civilization - the British Empire, the future of peace in Europe, the survival of the Weimar Republic, both the Russian and Chinese revolutions and stability in the Pacific - now came to revolve around this new power's fraught relationship with a shockingly changed world. <BR><BR>The Deluge is both a brilliantly illuminating exploration of the past and an essential history for the present.