In Conversations with Great Minds Thom talks to Professor Adam Tooze on his new book - Shutdown: How Covid Shook the World's Economy. In SHUTDOWN, Tooze shows how social organization, political interests, and economic policy interact with devastating human consequences, from your local hospital to the World Bank. Part 1.

A whole variety of things went wrong as the pandemic hit. But we knew it could happen. However, in the face of reality, red alert was ignored.

Adam Tozze joined Thom to share how Covid shook the World's economy.

is the Kathryn & Shelby Cullom Davis Professor of History, Columbia University & Author of 7 books including, Crashed: How a Decade of Financial Crisis Changed the World / His latest book is Shutdown: How Covid Shook the World's Economy

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