🎧 Post-Covid Economics

Episode summary: This week a special edition from the Bristol Festival of Economics with Helen Thompson and Adam Tooze talking about what might follow the pandemic. From vaccines to changing patterns of employment, from action on climate to new tensions with China, we explore what the long-term effects of 2020 might be. Plus we discuss what options are open to a Biden administration: with the Georgia run-offs to come and the disease still spreading, how much wriggle room has he got? Talking Points: Headlines about the COVID vaccines focus on effectiveness, but it’s also about supply chains, storage, and scale. - Things are moving so quickly right now in part because so many people, especially in the US, are getting sick. After the initial financial meltdown in March, in aggregate terms there was a share market recovery—one which was at odds with what was going on with people’s lives. - Surging American unemployment numbers went alongside the S&P 500’s continued rise. - The biggest beneficiaries initially were big tech. Now…