After COVID, Will We Want What We Wanted?

After COVID, Will We Want What We Wanted?
A couple watches the sunset amid the novel coronavirus pandemic in New York City on April 28, 2020. New York, which has ground to a halt to stop the coronavirus pandemic, may start reopening manufacturing and construction after May 15, Governor Andrew Cuomo said on April 26. Angela Weiss/AFP via Getty Images
Froma Harrop
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When Germany let smaller stores reopen, the expected didn’t happen. Officials thought that shoppers would burst out of their five-week lockdown and spend, spend, spend. They were wrong.

Froma Harrop
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