What is going to happen to the world economy?
Martin Wolf
What is going to happen to the world economy? We will never know the answer to this question. In one decade after another, something big and largely unexpected has occurred: the great inflation and oil shocks in the 1970s, the disinflation of the early 1980s, the fall of the Soviet Union and the rise of China in the 1990s, the financial crises in the high-income economies in the 2000s and the pandemic, post-pandemic inflation and wars in Ukraine…