Adam Tooze
Economic historian at Columbia; writes Chartbook; author of Crashed, The Deluge and The Wages of Destruction.
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- Adam Tooze is a British-born historian at Columbia University, where he directs the European Institute.
- He taught at Cambridge until 2009 and at Yale for six years after.
- His books include The Wages of Destruction (2006), an economic history of Nazi Germany that won the Wolfson History Prize, The Deluge (2014) and Crashed (2018), on the 2008 financial crisis.
- He writes the newsletter Chartbook and has co-hosted the podcast Ones and Tooze with Cameron Abadi of Foreign Policy from September 2021.
Key facts
- Born
- 5 July 19671
- Columbia
- Professor; director of the European Institute1
- Before
- Cambridge (Reader in Twentieth-Century History) until 2009; Yale, professor of modern German history, six years1
- Books
- Statistics and the German State, 1900–1945; The Wages of Destruction (2006); The Deluge (2014); Crashed (2018)1
- Writes
- Chartbook, a newsletter on Substack; also the Financial Times, London Review of Books and others1
- Podcast
- Ones and Tooze, with Cameron Abadi (from September 2021)1
- Honours
- Philip Leverhulme Prize (2002); Wolfson History Prize (2006); Los Angeles Times Book Prize for History (2015); Lionel Gelber Prize (2019)1
- Education
- BA in economics, King's College, Cambridge (1989); doctorate in economic history, LSE1
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