Shutdown: How Covid Shook the World's Economy: Adam Tooze in conversation with Shruti Rajagopalan

Adam Tooze’s latest book, Shutdown: How Covid Shook the World's Economy, is a staggering and incisive take on the interplay of globalisation, world politics, economy, and climate change. Masterfully unraveling the fragility of the world order, the cogent narrative weaves through finance, business, and the global human experience to make it clear that the crisis unleashed well before the virus. In conversation with Shruti Rajagopalan, Tooze gives us a panoramic view of the continued impact of 2020 and the deeply rooted ruptures in our way of being.

Adam Tooze is a professor of history at Columbia University and the author of Crashed, winner of the Lionel Gelber Prize, a New York Times Notable Book of 2018, one of The Economist’s Books of the Year, and a New York Times Critics’ Top Book. He is also the co-host of Foreign Policy’s forthcoming podcast, ‘Ones and Tooze’, which will debut in September 2021. He lives in New York City.

Shruti Rajagopalan is a Senior Research Fellow at the Mercatus Center at George Mason University and a Fellow at the Classical Liberal Institute at NYU School of Law. She is the host of the Ideas of India podcast. She directs the Emergent Ventures India grants program at the Mercatus Center. Before joining the Mercatus Center, she was an Associate Professor of Economics at State University of New York, Purchase College. She earned her Ph.D. in economics from George Mason University. She has a BA (Hons) Economics and LL.B. from University of Delhi; and an LL.M. from the European Masters in Law and Economics Program at University of Hamburg, Ghent University, and University of Bologna. Her broad area of interest is the economic analysis of comparative legal and political systems. Her research interests specifically include law and economics, public choice theory, and constitutional economics.  She also enjoys writing in the popular press and wrote the fortnightly column The Impartial Spectator in Mint. She has also published opinion editorials on Indian political economy in The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, Bloomberg, Real Clear Politics, Mint, National Review, The Hindu: Business Line, and The Indian Express.

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[josealbertopereztoro]

Very interesting view about why the world individual economies fall during pandemics and why governments do not follow anti-depressions policies to regain growth💸

[Wkumar]

Fascinating conversation on the historical impact of the Covid pandemic. It's sad to see that few others (so far) have watched watched video. I am looking forward to reading this book.