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Adam Tooze
Born
John Adam Tooze

(1967-07-05)5 July 1967(age 57)
London,England
Awards
Academic background
Alma mater
ThesisOfficial Statistics and Economic Governance in Interwar Germany(1996)
Doctoral advisorAlan Milward
InfluencesWynne Godley[1]
Academic work
DisciplineHistory
Sub-discipline
Institutions
Notable works
WebsiteadamtoozeEdit this at Wikidata

John Adam Tooze(born 5 July 1967) is an English historian who is a professor atColumbia University,Director of theEuropean Institute[2][3][4]and nonresident scholar atCarnegie Europe.Previously, he was Reader in Twentieth-Century History at theUniversity of Cambridgeand Gurnee Hart Fellow in History atJesus College, Cambridge.[5]

After leaving Cambridge in 2009, he spent six years atYale Universityas Professor of Modern German History[6]and Director of International Security Studies at theMacMillan Center for International and Area Studies,[7]succeedingPaul Kennedy.Through his books (such asCrashed) and his online newsletter (Chartbook), he reaches a varied audience of historians, investors, administrators, and others.[8]

Early life

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Tooze was born on 5 July 1967[9]to British parents who met atCambridge.His maternal grandparents were the social researchersArthurand Margaret Wynn, who together wrote a study of the financial connections of theConservative Partyestablishment.[10]Arthur was also a civil servant and recruiter of Soviet spies atOxford.Tooze's fatherwas a molecular biologist who worked in Heidelberg,West Germany,where Tooze spent much of his childhood. He had an early interest in engineering and an aspiration to design engines for race cars. A precocious student, at secondary school he was permitted to teach a class onKeynesianmodelling.[11]

Education and research

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After studying atHighgate Schoolfrom 1983 to 1985,[12]Tooze graduated with a BA in economics fromKing's College, Cambridgein 1989. He then studied at theFree University of Berlinbefore moving to theLondon School of Economicsfor a doctorate in economic history under the supervision ofAlan Milward.[13][14]

In 2002 Tooze was awarded aPhilip Leverhulme Prizefor Modern History following the publication of his first book,Statistics and the German State, 1900–1945: The Making of Modern Economic Knowledge.[15]He first came to prominence for his economic study of theThird Reich,The Wages of Destruction,which was one of the winners of the 2006Wolfson History Prize,[16]and a broad-based history of theFirst World WarwithThe Deluge,published in 2014. He then widened his scope to study the financial crash of 2008 and its economic and geopolitical consequences withCrashed: How a Decade of Financial Crises Changed the World,published in 2018, for which he won the 2019Lionel Gelber Prize.[17]

Tooze writes for numerous publications, including theFinancial Times,[18]London Review of Books,[19]New Left Review,[20]The Wall Street Journal,The Guardian,[21]Foreign Policy,[22]andDie Zeit.[23]Since 2022 he sits on the board of the ZOE Institute for Future-fit economies.[24]

Personal life

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Tooze is a grandson of the British civil servant and Soviet spy,Arthur Wynnand his wife, Peggy Moxon. Tooze's 2006 book,The Wages of Destruction,is dedicated to them.[25]

Honours

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Bibliography

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Books

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  • Statistics and the German State, 1900–1945: The Making of Modern Economic Knowledge(Cambridge Studies in Modern Economic History), Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2001.[26]ISBN0-521-80318-7Translated in German.
  • The Wages of Destruction: The Making and Breaking of the Nazi Economy,London: Allen Lane, 2006.[27]ISBN0-7139-9566-1Translated in German, French, Dutch, Italian, Polish, Portuguese and Russian.
  • The Deluge: The Great War, America and the Remaking of the Global Order, 1916–1931,London: Allen Lane, 2014.[28]ISBN9781846140341Translated in German, French, Dutch, Spanish, Chinese and Russian.
  • Crashed: How a Decade of Financial Crises Changed the World,London: Allen Lane and New York: Viking, August 2018.[29]ISBN9781846140365Translated in German, French, Dutch, Italian, Spanish, Portuguese, Chinese, Russian and Greek.
  • Shutdown: How Covid Shook the World's Economy,Allen Lane, Sep 7 2021.[30]
As editor
  • Cambridge History of World War II. Volume 3withMichael Geyer,Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2015.[31]
  • Normalität und Fragilität: Demokratie nach dem Ersten Weltkriegwith Tim B. Müller,[32]Hamburg: Hamburger Editionen, 2015.[33]

Substack newsletter

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Essays and reporting

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  • "Is this the end of the American century? America Pivots",London Review of Books,4 April 2019.[34][35]
  • "Democracy and Its Discontents",The New York Review of Books,6 June 2019.[36]
  • Additional, ongoing series of original articles written on his website after the publication ofCrashed,entitledFraming Crashed.[37]
  • "Whose century?",London Review of Books,vol. 42, no. 15 (30 July 2020), pp. 9–13. Tooze closes (p. 13): "Can [the US] fashion a domestic political bargain to enable the US to become what it currently is not: a competent and co-operative partner in the management of the collective risks of theAnthropocene.This is what theGreen New Dealpromised. After the shock ofCOVID-19it is more urgent than ever. "

Book reviews

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Year Review article Work(s) reviewed
2020 Tooze, Adam (3–23 April 2020). "The War Against Climate Change". The Critics. Books.New Statesman.149(5514): 66–69. Lieven, Anatol.Climate Change and the Nation State: The Realist Case.Allen Lane.

References

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  1. ^Mentioned inCrashed,Acknowledgments, pp. 9–10 "... debts I owe to two teachers... Wynne Godley was a mentor and teacher of a very different kind. Spontaneously warm and generous in spirit, he took me under his cape in my first year at King’s and introduced me, and a group of my contemporaries, to what, at the time, was a highly idiosyncratic brand of economics."
  2. ^"Adam Tooze | European Institute".europe.columbia.edu.Retrieved17 February2019.
  3. ^Fischer, Molly (28 March 2022)."The Cult of Adam Tooze".Intelligencer.Retrieved28 March2022.
  4. ^"Adam Tooze".Carnegie Endowment for International Peace.Retrieved9 November2022.
  5. ^Tooze, Adam (April 2016)."Adam Tooze's CV".Adam Tooze's personal website.Archived fromthe originalon 15 February 2019.Retrieved15 February2019.
  6. ^"Adam Tooze | History Politics Theory".campuspress.yale.edu.Retrieved17 February2019.
  7. ^"Bio".ADAM TOOZE.Retrieved17 February2019.
  8. ^abLowrey, Annie (5 July 2022)."A Crisis Historian Has Some Bad News for Us".The Atlantic.Archived fromthe originalon 5 July 2022.Retrieved5 July2022.
  9. ^Adam Tooze [@adam_tooze] (5 July 2016)."This IS a birthday treat... My first book: Ladybird's William the Conqueror"(Tweet) – viaTwitter.
  10. ^Phillips, Angela (17 February 2010)."Margaret Wynn obituary".The Guardian.London.Archivedfrom the original on 29 October 2014.Retrieved29 March2022.
  11. ^Fischer, Molly (28 March 2022)."The Cult of Adam Tooze".New York.New York City: New York Media.Retrieved29 March2022.
  12. ^Hughes, Patrick; Davies, Ian F.Highgate School Register 1833-1988.p. 422.
  13. ^"Tooze, Adam | Department of History - Columbia University".Archived fromthe originalon 6 February 2020.Retrieved17 February2019.
  14. ^"Faculty: Adam Tooze".yale.edu.Archived fromthe originalon 24 November 2012.Retrieved15 November2012.
  15. ^"Philip Leverhulme Prizes"(PDF).Dario Alfè.University College London.
  16. ^"Previous Winners".The Wolfson Foundation.Retrieved17 February2019.
  17. ^"Adam Tooze Wins the 2019 Lionel Gelber Prize for Crashed; How a Decade of Financial Crises Changed the World"(PDF).The Lionel Gelber Prize.26 February 2019.Retrieved31 March2019.
  18. ^"Adam Tooze".Financial Times.Retrieved4 March2019.
  19. ^"Adam Tooze · LRB".lrb.co.uk.Retrieved4 March2019.
  20. ^"New Left Review - author".newleftreview.org.Archived fromthe originalon 6 March 2019.Retrieved4 March2019.
  21. ^"Adam Tooze".The Guardian.Retrieved4 March2019.
  22. ^Tooze, Adam."Adam Tooze".Foreign Policy.Archived fromthe originalon 21 November 2018.Retrieved4 March2019.
  23. ^"Adam Tooze".ZEIT ONLINE(in German).Retrieved4 March2019.
  24. ^"Prof Adam Tooze – ZOE Institute for Future-fit Economies".Retrieved25 January2023.
  25. ^Tooze, Adam(2007) [2006].The Wages of Destruction(1st ed.). New York, New York:Viking Penguin.p. v.ISBN978-0-670-03826-8.
  26. ^"Statistics and the German State".Adam Tooze's personal website.Retrieved17 February2019.
  27. ^"The Wages of Destruction".Adam Tooze's personal website.Retrieved17 February2019.
  28. ^"The Deluge".Adam Tooze's personal website.Retrieved17 February2019.
  29. ^"Crashed".Adam Tooze's personal website.Archived fromthe originalon 18 February 2019.Retrieved17 February2019.
  30. ^Tooze, Adam (2 September 2021)."Has Covid ended the neoliberal era?".The Guardian.
  31. ^"The Cambridge History of the Second World War".Adam Tooze's personal website.Retrieved17 February2019.
  32. ^Sozialforschung, Hamburger Institut für."Personen Detailansicht".Hamburger Institut für Sozialforschung.Retrieved17 February2019.
  33. ^"Normalität und Fragilität: Demokratie nach dem Ersten Weltkrieg".Adam Tooze's personal website.Retrieved17 February2019.
  34. ^Tooze, Adam (4 April 2019)."Is this the end of the American century?".London Review of Books.pp. 3–7.ISSN0260-9592.Retrieved27 March2019.
  35. ^London Review of Books (LRB) (27 March 2019),Adam Tooze: American Power in the Long 20th Century,archivedfrom the original on 19 December 2021,retrieved31 March2019
  36. ^Tooze, Adam (6 June 2019)."Democracy and Its Discontents".New York Review of Books.ISSN0028-7504.Retrieved29 May2019.
  37. ^"Framing Crashed Archives".ADAM TOOZE.Archived fromthe originalon 31 March 2019.Retrieved31 March2019.
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