“At the expense of anything?” rejoined Lady Carbury with energy. “One cannot measure such men by the ordinary rule.”

Facile criticisms of Adam Tooze's new book, Shutdown: How Covid Shook the World's Economy, present themselves at once. It suffers by comparison to Tooze's masterpiece, The Wages of Destruction (2006)—easily one of the best historical works of the last two decades, a huge and original take on the economy of Nazi Germany, its geopolitics and political economy alike forged in reaction to the example of Fordist America, its war aims destined to fail because of an increasing deficit in the “balance of resources” vis-à-vis the Allies.

“不惜一切代价？” 充满活力地重新加入了卡伯里夫人。“不能用普通的规则来衡量这样的人。”

对亚当·图兹的新书《停工：新冠病毒如何震撼世界经济》的轻描淡写的批评立即出现了。与图兹的杰作《毁灭的工资》 （2006 年）相比，它受到了影响——这很容易成为过去二十年中最好的历史作品之一，对纳粹德国的经济、其地缘政治和政治经济等进行了巨大而独创的反应。以福特主义美国为例，它的战争目标注定要失败，因为相对于盟军的“资源平衡”日益赤字。