Ten Lessons for a Post-Pandemic World
- Author Fareed Zakaria
- Narrator Fareed Zakaria
- Publisher Penguin Books Ltd
- Publish Date 6 October 2020
- Run Time 7 hours and 24 minutes
- Format Audio
- Genre Economic and financial crises and disasters, Geopolitics, Political economy, Political science and theory, Social impact of disasters, Welfare economics.
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Since the end of the Cold War, the world has been shaken to its core three times. September 11, 2001, the financial collapse of 2008 and - most of all - COVID-19. Each was an asymmetrical threat, different from anything the world had experienced before.
Fareed Zakaria presents ten surprising, hopeful and vital lessons for recovery in our age of asymmetry. He highlights the importance of investing in healthcare and education, harnessing technology and how to react to America's retreat from leadership on the world stage. COVID-19 has made the old categories of left vs right, democracy vs dictatorship and big vs small government obsolete and highlighted what should have always been the obvious challenge to populism - good government. Sheer competence made all the difference in those countries which dealt with the pandemic best. The future belongs to the smart state.
Zakaria's final lesson is to accept the reality of globalization and acknowledge that global crises need international cooperation and global solutions. He passionately argues that we need to continue listening to experts and scientists to tackle climate change. We need to resist our nationalist and isolationist instincts to fight inequality and recognise that we actually have more in common than not. He believes that Aristotle was right - we are social beings with community embedded in our human nature. We want to gather and work, eat, pray, love and mourn together. More than anything we need to build a new world together.
© Fareed Zakaria 2020 (P) Penguin Audio 2020
Critics Review
It is an intelligent, learned and judicious guide for a world already in the making.
| Author | Fareed Zakaria |
|---|---|
| Narrator | Fareed Zakaria |
| Duration | 7 hours and 24 minutes |
| Release Date | |
| ISBN | 9780241509005 |
| Format | Audiobook |
| Publisher | Penguin Books Ltd |
| Genre | Economic and financial crises and disasters, Geopolitics, Political economy, Political science and theory, Social impact of disasters, Welfare economics |
| Availability | AU, GB, IE |
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