The Post-Pandemic Normal Will Never Be the Way It Was

<a href='https://www.blogger.com/blog/post/edit/3994698577663380344/6189352335290490012?hl=en'></a>Everyone desperately wants to know what the post-pandemic world will look like. Adam Tooze has been thinking hard about it and he thinks he knows.  <p>Comparing the US experience to China’s, he notes how cultural and political differences have determined successes and failures in dealing with the unprecedented challenge of COVID-19. Tooze argues that, like soldiers returning from mortal combat, we are suffering from a kind of national — and even global — PTSD.</p> <p>Tooze, Columbia University history and economics professor is the author of <a href='https://www.blogger.com/blog/post/edit/3994698577663380344/6189352335290490012?hl=en'>Shutdown: How Covid Shook the World's Economy</a>.</p> <p>My <a href='https://www.blogger.com/blog/post/edit/3994698577663380344/6189352335290490012?hl=en'>WhoWhatWhy conversation</a> with Adam Tooze::</p> <a href='https://www.blogger.com/blog/post/edit/3994698577663380344/6189352335290490012?hl=en'></a>