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Adam Tooze


Adam Tooze is the Kathryn and Shelby Cullom Davis Professor of History at Columbia University and Director of the European Institute. He is the author of several books, the most recent is Shutdown: How COVID shook the world's economy (2021). He writes the Chartbook Newsletter and is an FT contributing editor.

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    Wildfires in California have forced thousands to evacuate their homes in recent years. There is a growing anxiety that we are hurtling towards catastrophic ecological tipping points
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    Slouching Towards Utopia by J Bradford DeLong — fuelling America’s global dream

    An economic history of the last century recalls a period that improved and redefined the lives of billions — yet also enabled war and environmental destruction

  • Thursday, 7 April, 2022
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  • Thursday, 31 March, 2022
    UnhedgedRobert Armstrong
    The end of globalisation as we know it Premium content

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  • Thursday, 14 October, 2021
    ReviewEconomics books
    Samuelson and Friedman — a rivalry that echoes down to the present

    A new look at two giants of postwar economics whose views shaped the free market

  • Wednesday, 15 September, 2021
    FT Books Essay
    Shutdown and Aftershocks — Covid and the new world order

    Two books bring insights into the radical political ruptures wrought by the pandemic

  • Tuesday, 14 September, 2021
    Global Economy
    Twitter spaces with Adam Tooze

    This Friday we’re hosting the most prolific man in economic history to chat about policymakers’ mammoth response to the pandemic and what comes next.

  • Friday, 18 December, 2020
    Coronavirus economic impact
    Talk of a global economic reset must not ignore grim realities

    Scientists may have provided us with a miraculous fix for Covid, but history shows that any path to recovery will be long

  • Friday, 3 April, 2020
    Eurozone reform
    The eurozone’s ‘whatever it takes’ mantra has a problem

    EU squabbles are turning that famous defiant phrase into a platitude

    FRANKFURT AM MAIN, GERMANY - MARCH 12: Christine Lagarde, President of the European Central Bank, speaks to the media following a meeting of the ECB governing board at ECB headquarters on March 12, 2020 in Frankfurt, Germany. The ECB is pursuing measures to counter the economic impact of the rapidly spreading coronavirus. The number of confirmed cases across Europe has reached 25,000. (Photo by Thomas Lohnes/Getty Images)
  • Wednesday, 22 January, 2020
    World Economic Forum in Davos
    Davos prioritises environment as activists invest hope in greener finance

    Willing capital markets and cheap technologies will make climate change choices easier

    FOLEY, MISSOURI- JUNE 01: Residents cope as floodwater from the Mississippi River rises on June 1, 2019 in Foley, Missouri. The middle-section of the country has been experiencing major flooding since mid-March especially along the Missouri, Arkansas, and Mississippi Rivers. Towns along the Mississippi River have been experiencing the longest stretch of major flooding from the river in nearly a century. (Photo by Scott Olson/Getty Images)
  • Monday, 4 November, 2019
    FT AlphavilleClaire Jones
    GenX will set central banks’ climate response

    The climate change debate pits the young against the old, but those in the middle must solve it.

  • Tuesday, 3 September, 2019
    Natural disasters
    Hurricane in the Bahamas is a harbinger of our future

    The islands combine extreme affluence and deep poverty with vulnerability to climate change

    A woman walks in a flooded street after the effects of Hurricane Dorian arrived in Nassau, Bahamas, September 2, 2019. REUTERS/John Marc Nutt MANDATORY CREDIT. NO RESALES. NO ARCHIVES
  • Friday, 5 July, 2019
    ReviewHistory books
    1931 by Tobias Straumann — how things fell apart

    The story of the end of Weimar Germany should be required reading for policymakers today

    Broken windows at a bank on Weddingplatz, Berlin, the day after violent clashes between police and demonstrators, 11th June 1931. (Photo by FPG/Archive Photos/Getty Images)
  • Friday, 18 January, 2019
    ReviewNon-Fiction
    The New Enclosure by Brett Christophers — the sale of the century

    The massive privatisation of public property is key to understanding Britain today

    B3GHCM New housing on site of old Withington Hospital, Manchester UK. Image shot 09/2008. Exact date unknown.
  • Thursday, 26 July, 2018
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  • Friday, 28 April, 2017
    ReviewLife & Arts
    The H-Word by Perry Anderson — follow the leader

    A history of hegemony shows that there are hard limits to soft power

    A 5th-century BC marble relief from the Parthenon, Athens, now held in the British Museum
  • Monday, 6 February, 2017
    US immigration
    Donald Trump’s wall is no bar to migration from Mexico

    The people of border regions have always been entangled

    File Photo: U.S. border patrol agents on horseback patrol along the U.S. Mexico border fence near San Diego, California, U.S November 10, 2016. REUTERS/Mike Blake/File Photo
  • Friday, 28 November, 2014
    ReviewLife & Arts
    Best books of 2014: History

    A round-up of the titles to remember

  • Friday, 27 June, 2014
    Life & Arts
    Summer reading: History

    Tony Barber picks his books of the year so far

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