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How Covid Shook the World’s Economy Adam Tooze

Allen Lane (£25)

Zhou Enlai, the former premier of China, is often cited as saying that it was “too early to say” what the impact of the French Revolution would be. In reality, Zhou was probably referring to the student unrest of 1968 a few years earlier, not the events of 1789 – but the quote

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