Unprecedented events creating ‘extremely severe’ risk of global recession – economist Adam Tooze

Economic historian says Australia will largely be fine, as long as China pulls off biggest financial feat the world has ever seen

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Adam Tooze has a cult following among economists and historians alike.

The famed English economic historian, once hailed by New York Magazine as impeccably credentialed, improbably charming", is in Australia after speaking at Sydney's Festival of Dangerous Ideas.

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