Podcast

Last but not the least

An overview of economic policy and beyond in 2021.

Publishing date
22 December 2021

Following Bruegel’s end-of-year tradition, Giuseppe Porcaro invites Maria DemertzisAndré Sapir and Guntram Wolff to review 2021 in economic policy and beyond, especially in pandemic preparedness, inflation as well as geopolitics. The guests also each introduce a book that has marked them this year and finally, their hopes and wishes for the upcoming 2022.

Book list:

  • Graeber, D. and David W. (2021) The Dawn of Everything: A New History of Humanity. Farrar, Straus and Giroux.
  • Henrich, J. (2021) The Weirdest People in the World: How the West Became Psychologically Peculiar and Particularly Prosperous. Penguin.
  • Perlroth, N. (2021) This Is How They Tell Me the World Ends: The Cyberweapons Arms Race. Bloomsbury Publishing.
  • Ridley, M. (2020) How Innovation Works. HarperCollins.

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