The world after the pandemic: a procession of miseries

By: Jean-Pierre Boris Follow

Governments are easing the containment measures adopted two months ago against the Covid-19 pandemic. These two months plunged the world economy into a historic slump. Private sector activity everywhere has experienced an unprecedented contraction.

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As a result of this situation, three questions arise for the populations concerned and for the teams in power. First, how to reconcile the resumption of normal economic activity with the maintenance of barrier gestures and social distancing? Second question: what about the economic crisis? What will be its nature, its intensity? Will tens of millions of unemployed Americans find jobs quickly? Will European consumption start to gallop again? Finally, last question, does this crisis provide an opportunity to make our economies production systems compatible with the preservation of the planet? All these questions asked by Jean-Pierre Boris to the three guests here:

- Paul Jorion , anthropologist and sociologist, is very interested in economics and finance. One of his last books, published by Éditions Fayard:  What good is it to think about the hour of the great collapse .

- Véronique Riches Flores, independent economist. His site .

- Lucas Chancel, co-director of the Laboratory on global inequalities at the Paris School of Economics and also associate researcher at IDDRI, the Institute for Sustainable Development and International Relations. He teaches at the Institute of Political Studies.

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