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Comments on Adam Tooze by nous

It seems I am often prefacing links (as I am here) with a mention of how often I disagree with the author on many particulars. Don't take my link to Krugman as an endorsement of Krugman as anything but an observer of this recent deal:

https://paulkrugman.substack.com/p/the-world-files-for-economic-divorce

It's about the free trade agreement just negotiated between the EU and India. I'd have to go back and look over what Krugman says to see if his view is compatible with what Tooze is saying, but I think that the deal itself is very much in line with Tooze's (and Carney's) assertions.

The world is losing faith in the Peace of Westphalia. It will be interesting to see what sort of new order emerges out of that collapse -- assuming that we survive the environmental collapse that is likely to be brought on by all of this lack of a functioning order.