Will hungary simply st as a truly autocratic regime within the european union? Very difficult to tell. I think that is kind of part of a poly crisis scenario, and which we saw in fifteen. We could indeed be heading back to a scenario which was every bit as bad as that. And what i worry about, many other people worry about, is whether whether w'r. at that point now,. on several differet conditions of on cove in nineteen itself; the long standing and imiseration of the italian economy and, as you say, refugee crisis that might brok up. If turkey is one of the fragile eu states then, of course, if...
Adam Tooze is best known for his highly-regarded books on the economic history of Nazi Germany, the remaking of the global economic and political order starting in World War I, and his account of how the economic effects of the 2008 financial crisis rippled across the globe for a decade to follow. Recently, he’s become an influential voice on Twitter documenting the pandemic-induced strain on the world’s financial systems.
Adam joined Tyler to discuss the historically unusual decision to have a high-cost lockdown during a pandemic, why he believes in a swoosh-shaped recovery, portents of financial crises in China and the West, which emerging economies are currently most at risk, what Keynes got wrong about the Treaty of Versailles, why the Weimar Republic failed, whether Hitler was a Keynesian, the political and economic prospects of various EU members, his trick to writing a lot, how Twitter encourages him to read more, what he taught executives at BP, his advice for visiting Germany, and more.
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