“The End of Normal” and Pandemic

     In 2014 James K. Galbraith publicized a book named “The End of Normal – The Great Crisis and the Future of Growth”. He wrote that the world economy cannot grow anymore under the same objectives as gross domestic product, work, jobs and stock exchange. All of that was considered the “normal paradigm”. He said about the need of a balance among natural resources, consumerism and excessive accumulation: a new paradigm.

     Nowadays, under the pandemic of Covid-19, someone is talking about “a new normal” that is coming, and that many things are going to change. Maybe “The End of Normal” of Galbraith has something in common with “the new normal” after the pandemic…