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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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  • Friday, 2 June, 2023
    US politics & policy
    Why America’s economic policy muddle matters

    The messy nature of decisions is important both for US citizens and the world

  • Wednesday, 24 May, 2023
    ReviewFT Books Essay
    The Economic Government of the World — an end to globalisation?

    Martin Daunton’s history of trade liberalisation shows that capricious US opinion has always mattered most

  • Friday, 5 May, 2023
    US-China relations
    Washington isn’t listening to business on China any more

    The waning of the ‘peace interest’ leaves multibillion-dollar investments hanging by a thread

  • Friday, 7 April, 2023
    European Union
    EU green policy must bring the population with it

    The commission’s industrial policy debate has been singularly lacking in bottom-up public participation

  • Friday, 31 March, 2023
    Banks
    We are living through a trillion-dollar rebalancing

    Beneath a veil of silence, a hugely dramatic and powerful episode of financial repression is ongoing

  • Friday, 24 February, 2023
    War in Ukraine
    The west’s limited support for Ukraine fails to measure up

    Europe and the US may sincerely want Kyiv to prevail over Moscow but they are failing to match ends with means

  • Monday, 30 January, 2023
    Globalisation
    Three ways to read the ‘deglobalisation’ debate

    Proponents of business as usual and the new cold warriors are too confident of their ability to predict the future

  • Friday, 23 December, 2022
    European Union
    An arms race on industrial policy is the last thing Europe needs

    Making a fuss over America’s Inflation Reduction Act is gratuitous and counterproductive

  • Friday, 25 November, 2022
    Cryptocurrencies
    Regulators can’t keep turning a blind eye to crypto craziness

    Stopping a hyped-up project that promises to disrupt the status quo requires decisiveness and courage

  • Friday, 28 October, 2022
    Global Economy
    Welcome to the world of the polycrisis

    Today disparate shocks interact so that the whole is worse than the sum of the parts

  • Tuesday, 27 September, 2022
    FT Books Essay
    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
    UnhedgedRobert Armstrong
    Chartbook X Unhedged: Europe Premium content

    Will twin crises transform Europe’s economies and markets?

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

    Unhedged x Adam Tooze, part two

  • 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

  • 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

  • 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

  • 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

  • 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

  • Thursday, 26 July, 2018
    FT AlphavilleUS economy
    What's the matter with GDP?
  • Tuesday, 4 July, 2017
    FT AlphavilleDavid Keohane
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