About

Adam Tooze holds the Shelby Cullom Davis chair of History at Columbia University and serves as Director of the European Institute. His research focuses on economic history, global financial systems, and contemporary political economy, as evidenced by his extensive commentary on issues such as the global economy, energy security, and international relations. Tooze is an accomplished author, with his latest book, 'Shutdown: How Covid Shook the World's Economy,' analyzing the economic impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic. His work also includes analyses of European energy policies, U.S.-China economic tensions, and the economic philosophies of figures like George Soros. Recognized as one of the top Global Thinkers of the decade by Foreign Policy Magazine in 2019, Tooze's contributions extend to podcasts, interviews, and articles that explore the intersections of history, economics, and politics.

Research topics

• Political Science
• Humanities
• Sociology
• Social Science
• Finance
• Philosophy
• Financial system
• Epistemology
• Art
• Law
• Business

Selected publications

• The Problem of International Order at the Versailles Conference and After

  2024-01-01

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• Lessons of Keynes’s <i>Economic Consequences</i> in a Turbulent Century

  Cambridge University Press eBooks · 2023-12-14 · 2 citations

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  Published online: 14 December 2023

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• Kindleberger, Mehrling y ese Premio Nobel

  Revista de Economía Institucional · 2022-12-22

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  Este escrito sostiene que el premio “Nobel” de economía de este año celebra uno de los aspectos más débiles del pensamiento macroeconómico moderno: su limitada capacidad para entender la inestabilidad macrofinanciera del capitalismo moderno. En vez de desafiar la obstinada negativa de tomar en serio a los pensadores que afrontan la importancia esencial de las finanzas y sus peligros para el mundo moderno, como Hyman Minsky o Hyun Song Shin, hace alarde de la tendencia a ignorarlos. Y argumenta que si el Comité del premio hubiese querido galardonar a quienes procuran entender la dinámica del sistema financiero global moderno y sus interconexiones con la economía real, debería habérselo entregado al equipo del BIS, que se remonta a la época de William White, y a economistas académicos asociados al BIS como Hyun Song Shin.

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• L’Europe peut-elle mener la lutte contre le changement climatique ?

  GREEN · 2022-09-01

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• History in the Humanities and Social Sciences

  Cambridge University Press eBooks · 2022 · 13 citations

  • Social Science
  • Sociology
  • Social Science

  This interdisciplinary volume explores the relationship between history and a range of disciplines in the humanities and social sciences: economics, political science, political theory, international relations, sociology, philosophy, law, literature and anthropology. The relevance of historical approaches within these disciplines has shifted over the centuries. Many of them, like law and economics, originally depended on self-consciously historical procedures. These included the marshalling of evidence from past experience, philological techniques and source criticism. Between the late nineteenth and the middle of the twentieth century, the influence of new methods of research, many indebted to models favoured by the natural sciences, such as statistical, analytical or empirical approaches, secured an expanding intellectual authority while the hegemony of historical methods declined in relative terms. In the aftermath of this change, the essays collected in History in the Humanities and Social Sciences reflect from a variety of angles on the relevance of historical concerns to representative disciplines as they are configured today.

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• The Return of Depression Economics: Paul Krugman and the Twenty-First-Century Crisis of American Democracy

  Cambridge University Press eBooks · 2022-12-08

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  Paul Krugman is one of the most influential commentators in twenty-first-century America. His authority rests on his status as a Nobel prize-winning economist, but his appeal to millions of American readers derives from his ability to narrate the crises of contemporary American liberalism as dramatic history. By his own account Krugman as a young person was fascinated by the idea of a total social science inspired by the science fiction of Isaac Asimov. As he discovered as a College student in the early 1970s that synthesis of historical and social knowledge does not exist. Krugman became an economist out of disappointment with history. That disappointment was both intellectual – history’s failure to provide succinct causal explanations - and political – history’s tendency towards overdetermined fatalism as opposed to pragmatic simplification. It might be said that in his writings as a public intellectual Krugman has been reaching for the overview that eluded him as a young man. Economics, politics and history mingle freely in his work. This, however, has not led to a stable synthesis. As Krugman has become more deeply engaged in politics, it is the framing assumptions of his economics, the neoclassical synthesis forged at MIT after World War II, that have been put in question.

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• GLOBAL INEQUALITY AND THE CORONA SHOCK

  Columbia University Press eBooks · 2022-12-31

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• Tooze, Welt im Lockdown

  2021 · 14 citations

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  • Humanities
  • Political Science
  • Humanities

  Adam Tooze erzählt in seinem atemberaubenden Buch die Geschichte der zwölf Monate vom Januar 2020 bis Januar 2021. Am Anfang gibt Xi Jinping der Weltöffentlichkeit bekannt, dass sich in China ein tödliches neues Virus ausbreitet. Am Ende zieht Joe Biden als Nachfolger von Donald Trump ins Weiße Haus ein. Dazwischen liegen die Schockwellen einer Pandemie, die keinen Kontinent, kein Land und keine Bevölkerung ungeschoren lässt.

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• 9. Next Generation EU

  2021-01-01

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• 7. Die Wirtschaft auf der Intensivstation

  2021-01-01

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Frequent coauthors

• Michaël Geyer

  13 shared

• Martin Ivanov

  Sofia University "St. Kliment Ohridski"

  5 shared

• Myriam Dennehy

  3 shared

• Richard Bourke

  University of Cambridge

  3 shared

• Ian Shapiro

  3 shared

• Yasmin Khan

  2 shared

• Jochen Hellbeck

  2 shared

• Stefan Eich

  Georgetown University

  2 shared

Education

• Ph.D.

  London School of Economics

  1996

• B.A., Economics

  King's College Cambridge

  1989

Awards & honors

• LA Times Book Prize for History 2015 (For Deluge)
• Wolfson and Longman History Today Prize (for Wages of Destru…
• Leverhulme and H-Soz Kult Prize (for Statistics and the Germ…