works at Simon Fraser University, where he directs the Centre for Global Political Economy and teaches political economy and economic geography. His most recent books are Climate Leviathan: A Political Theory of Our Planetary Future (Verso, 2018, co-authored with Joel Wainwright); In the Long Run We Are All Dead: Keynesianism, Political Economy and Revolution (Verso, 2017); and Money and Finance After the Crisis: Critical Thinking for Uncertain Times (Wiley-Blackwell, 2017, co-edited with Brett Christophers & Andrew Leyshon). He lives in Vancouver, on the territory of the Musqueam, Squamish and Tsleil-Waututh.
However much upheaval the global COVID-19 pandemic has generated, a great deal more is coming. The economic disaster is already the object of frantic analysis, much of which tells us we can expect a bottom that matches or exceeds the Great Depression of the 1930s, at least as measured by conventional economic indicators like GDP, unemployment, and bankruptcies.
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