The sorting out of the devastating earthquake has catastrophic economic, social and political effects on the Syrian economy and society, which is already suffering from a devastating war for more than 12 years. All of this creates new economic and social behaviors and practices, represented in dependence on aid, theft of aid, trading in aid, chronic unemployment, and runaway inflation. All of the above will produce a new Syrian political economy, I think. The question is, can this case not be called the political economy of the earthquake?