Adam Tooze
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John Adam Tooze (born 5 July 1967) is an English historian who is a professor at
After leaving Cambridge in 2009, he spent six years at Yale University as Professor of Modern German History[6] and Director of International Security Studies at the MacMillan Center for International and Area Studies,[7] succeeding Paul Kennedy. Through his books (such as Crashed) and his online newsletter (Chartbook), he reaches a varied audience of historians, investors, administrators, and others.[8]
Early life
Tooze was born on 5 July 1967
Education and research
After studying at Highgate School from 1983 to 1985,[12] Tooze graduated with a BA in economics from King's College, Cambridge in 1989. He then studied at the Free University of Berlin before moving to the London School of Economics for a doctorate in economic history under the supervision of Alan Milward.[13][14]
In 2002 Tooze was awarded a
Tooze writes for numerous publications, including the Financial Times,[18] London Review of Books,[19] New Left Review,[20] The Wall Street Journal, The Guardian,[21] Foreign Policy,[22] and Die Zeit.[23] Since 2022 he sits on the board of the ZOE Institute for Future-fit economies.[24]
Personal life
Tooze is a grandson of the British civil servant and Soviet spy, Arthur Wynn and his wife, Peggy Moxon. Tooze's 2006 book, The Wages of Destruction, is dedicated to them.[25]
Honours
- H-Soz-Kult Prize for Modern History (2002)
- Philip Leverhulme Prize (2002)
- Wolfson History Prize (2006)
- Longman History Today Prize (2007)
- Los Angeles Times Book Prize for History (2015)
- Jean Monnet Programme - Awarded a Center of Excellence as Director of the European Institute at the Columbia University (2018)
- Lionel Gelber Prize (2019)
- Hans-Matthöfer-Preis für Wirtschaftspublizistik (2019)
Bibliography
Books
- Statistics and the German State, 1900–1945: The Making of Modern Economic Knowledge (Cambridge Studies in Modern Economic History), Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2001.ISBN 0-521-80318-7Translated in German.
- ISBN 0-7139-9566-1Translated in German, French, Dutch, Italian, Polish, Portuguese and Russian.
- ISBN 9781846140341Translated 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.ISBN 9781846140365Translated 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 3 with Michael Geyer, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2015.[31]
- Normalität und Fragilität: Demokratie nach dem Ersten Weltkrieg with Tim B. Müller,[32] Hamburg: Hamburger Editionen, 2015.[33]
Substack newsletter
- Tooze, Adam. "Chartbook". Substack. Retrieved 5 July 2022.[8]
Essays and reporting
- "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 after the publication of his last book on his website, entitled Framing 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 the Anthropocene. This is what the Green New Deal promised. After the shock of COVID-19 it is more urgent than ever."
Book reviews
Year | Review article | Work(s) reviewed |
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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
- ^ Mentioned in Crashed, 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."
- ^ "Adam Tooze | European Institute". europe.columbia.edu. Retrieved 17 February 2019.
- ^ Fischer, Molly (28 March 2022). "The Cult of Adam Tooze". Intelligencer. Retrieved 28 March 2022.
- ^ "Adam Tooze". Carnegie Endowment for International Peace. Retrieved 9 November 2022.
- ^ Tooze, Adam (April 2016). "Adam Tooze's CV". Adam Tooze's personal website. Archived from the original on 15 February 2019. Retrieved 15 February 2019.
- ^ "Adam Tooze | History Politics Theory". campuspress.yale.edu. Retrieved 17 February 2019.
- ^ "Bio". ADAM TOOZE. Retrieved 17 February 2019.
- ^ a b Lowrey, Annie (5 July 2022). "A Crisis Historian Has Some Bad News for Us". The Atlantic. Archived from the original on 5 July 2022. Retrieved 5 July 2022.
- ^ Adam Tooze [@adam_tooze] (5 July 2016). "This IS a birthday treat ... My first book: Ladybird's William the Conqueror" (Tweet) – via Twitter.
- ^ Phillips, Angela (17 February 2010). "Margaret Wynn obituary". The Guardian. London. Archived from the original on 29 October 2014. Retrieved 29 March 2022.
- ^ Fischer, Molly (28 March 2022). "The Cult of Adam Tooze". New York. New York City: New York Media. Retrieved 29 March 2022.
- ^ Hughes, Patrick; Davies, Ian F. Highgate School Register 1833-1988. p. 422.
- ^ "Tooze, Adam | Department of History - Columbia University". Archived from the original on 6 February 2020. Retrieved 17 February 2019.
- ^ "Faculty: Adam Tooze". yale.edu. Archived from the original on 24 November 2012. Retrieved 15 November 2012.
- ^ "Philip Leverhulme Prizes" (PDF). Dario Alfè. University College London.
- ^ "Previous Winners". The Wolfson Foundation. Retrieved 17 February 2019.
- ^ "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. Retrieved 31 March 2019.
- ^ "Adam Tooze". Financial Times. Retrieved 4 March 2019.
- ^ "Adam Tooze · LRB". www.lrb.co.uk. Retrieved 4 March 2019.
- ^ "New Left Review - author". newleftreview.org. Archived from the original on 6 March 2019. Retrieved 4 March 2019.
- ^ "Adam Tooze". The Guardian. Retrieved 4 March 2019.
- ^ Tooze, Adam. "Adam Tooze". Foreign Policy. Archived from the original on 21 November 2018. Retrieved 4 March 2019.
- ^ "Adam Tooze". ZEIT ONLINE (in German). Retrieved 4 March 2019.
- ^ "Prof Adam Tooze – ZOE Institute for Future-fit Economies". Retrieved 25 January 2023.
- ISBN 978-0-670-03826-8.
- ^ "Statistics and the German State". Adam Tooze's personal website. Retrieved 17 February 2019.
- ^ "The Wages of Destruction". Adam Tooze's personal website. Retrieved 17 February 2019.
- ^ "The Deluge". Adam Tooze's personal website. Retrieved 17 February 2019.
- ^ "Crashed". Adam Tooze's personal website. Archived from the original on 18 February 2019. Retrieved 17 February 2019.
- ^ Tooze, Adam (2 September 2021). "Has Covid ended the neoliberal era?". The Guardian.
- ^ "The Cambridge History of the Second World War". Adam Tooze's personal website. Retrieved 17 February 2019.
- ^ Sozialforschung, Hamburger Institut für. "Personen Detailansicht". Hamburger Institut für Sozialforschung. Retrieved 17 February 2019.
- ^ "Normalität und Fragilität: Demokratie nach dem Ersten Weltkrieg". Adam Tooze's personal website. Retrieved 17 February 2019.
- ISSN 0260-9592. Retrieved 27 March 2019.
- ^ London Review of Books (LRB) (27 March 2019), Adam Tooze: American Power in the Long 20th Century, archived from the original on 19 December 2021, retrieved 31 March 2019
- ISSN 0028-7504. Retrieved 29 May 2019.
- ^ "Framing Crashed Archives". ADAM TOOZE. Archived from the original on 31 March 2019. Retrieved 31 March 2019.
External links
- Official website
- "Adam Tooze is Incoming Director of the European Institute", Columbia University 2015
- The Crash That Failed, review of Crashed: How a Decade of Financial Crises Changed the World by Robert Kuttner