Shutdown

FINALIST FOR THE ORWELL PRIZE FOR POLITICAL WRITING 2022 THE TIMES BOOKS OF THE YEAR 2021 '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 From the author of Crashed comes a gripping short history of how Covid-19 ravaged the global economy, and where it leaves us now 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. 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. 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.'A seriously impressive book, both endlessly quotable and rigorously analytical' Oliver Bullough, The Guardian

CORONA CUT - DIE PANDEMIE UND DIE ZUKUNFT DER GLOBALISIERTEN WELT 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. 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. Spannend wie ein Thriller - Adam Tooze beschreibt unsere Welt im radikalen Wandel Wie gehen die Regierungen weltweit mit der nie dagewesenen Krise um und welche Konsequenzen hat das? Eine tiefgreifende Analyse unserer Gegenwart weit über die Corona-Krise hinaus Tooze gilt als einer der besten Wirtschaftshistoriker seiner Generation

Adam Tooze is the author of the highly praised The Deluge and The Wages of Destruction, both published by Allen Lane. The Wages of Destruction won the Wolfson Prize for History and the Longman-History Today Book of the Year Prize. He has taught at Cambridge and Yale and is now Kathryn and Shelby Cullom Davis Professor of History at Columbia University.

Adam Tooze is Barton M. Biggs Professor of History and Director of International Security Studies at Yale University. He taught for many years at the University of Cambridge. His last book, The Wages of Destruction, was universally acclaimed as one of the most important books written on the Third Reich. It was shortlisted for the Duff Cooper Prize and won both the Longman-History Today Book of the Year Prize and the Wolfson Prize for History. (lib)