Shutdown by Adam Tooze Summary
Overview of Shutdown
Shutdown: Adam Tooze's riveting analysis of COVID-19's economic shockwave. Former Treasury Secretary Robert Rubin called it "a complex story told with clarity and verve" - the definitive account of how a microscopic virus exposed massive global vulnerabilities that continue reshaping our world.
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The Perfect Storm: When a Virus Meets a Fragile World Order
When COVID-19 emerged in early 2020, the world was already fracturing. Brexit negotiations threatened European unity, climate change sparked global protests, refugee crises strained international cooperation, and developing nations faced mounting debt. This wasn't the optimistic globalization of the 1990s and 2000s. Then came news from Beijing of a novel coronavirus potentially worse than SARS. This wasn't an unpredictable "black swan" event but a "gray rhino" - an obvious threat consistently underestimated by global leaders. The virus exploited our interconnected world precisely as virologists had predicted. Air travel, which had grown from 310 million passengers in 1970 to 4.3 billion in 2019, became the perfect transmission mechanism. The economic impact was unprecedented: 95% of economies contracted simultaneously, 3 billion adults faced workplace disruption, 1.6 billion young people had education interrupted, and the World Bank estimated $10 trillion in lost lifetime earnings. What made COVID-19 unique was how it exposed globalization's fundamental contradiction. The very networks enabling prosperity - international travel, complex supply chains, urban concentration - became vectors for viral transmission. Unlike financial crises addressable through monetary policy, this biological threat required physical separation, directly attacking our interconnected world's foundations.
The Month That Changed Everything
When Governments Hit Pause on the Global Economy
Financial Markets in Freefall
The Unequal Pandemic
A World Transformed
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