What does survival in the world’s most extreme economies – from refugee camps, to disaster zones to failed post-industrial cities – teach us about the Covid-19 pandemic? Festival co-director Richard Davies will be in conversation with Professor Anne Case, discussing the world’s toughest economies, and asking how human resilience and frailty plays out, and what lessons we should take for our own future. Professor Case is based at Princeton and her recent book, Deaths of Despair, has been shortlisted for the 2020 FT/McKinsey business book of the year. Richard’s book, Extreme Economies, won the 2020 Lonely Planet/Stanford’s travel writing prize.