How The World Ran Out Of Everything

A new book from Peter Goodman explains what happened during the pandemic

You probably had a moment of realization sometime in 2020 that things were out of whack. Maybe your local grocery store ran out of paper towels. Perhaps you couldn’t buy bacon. You went to restock flour and there was none to buy.

Multiply that by millions of products in every part of the country, and you had the great pandemic supply chain crisis. Over and over, people asked, “How could this happen?”

In his upcoming book, How The World Ran Out of Everything, journalist Peter S. Goodman attempts to explain the simultaneous shortages that rippled through the global economy. His book will be published on June 11 by Mariner, which is part of Harper Collins.