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<p><b>FINALIST FOR THE ORWELL PRIZE FOR POLITICAL WRITING 2022</b><br><b><i><br> THE TIMES</i> BOOKS OF THE YEAR 2021</b><br><b><br> ''A complex story, which Tooze tells with clarity and verve... The world is unlikely to be treated to a better account of the economics of the pandemic'' <i>The Times</i></b><br><b><br> From the author of <i>Crashed</i> comes a gripping short history of how Covid-19 ravaged the global economy, and where it leaves us now<br></b><br> When the news first began to trickle out of China about a new virus in December 2019, risk-averse financial markets were alert to its potential for disruption. Yet they could never have predicted the total economic collapse that would follow in COVID-19''s wake, as stock markets fell faster and harder than at any time since 1929, currencies across the world plunged, investors panicked, and even gold was sold.<br><br> In a matter of weeks, the world''s economy was brought to an abrupt halt by governments trying to contain a spir