Adam Tooze

Adam Tooze is the the author of Crashed: How a Decade of Financial Crises Changed the World, The Wages of Destruction: The Making and Breaking of the Nazi Economy, and The Deluge: The Great War, America and the Remaking of the Global Order 1916 – 1931. He is a professor of Modern German History at Yale University.

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Biography & History

Crashed: How Decades of Financial Crises Changed the World

From a prizewinning economic historian, an eye-opening reinterpretation of the 2008 economic crisis (and its ten-year aftermath) as a global event that directly led to the shockwaves being felt around the world today.

We live in a world where dramatic shifts in the domestic and global economy command the headlines, from rollbacks in US banking regulations to tariffs that may ignite international trade wars. […Learn More]

Biography & History

The Wages of Destruction: The Making and Breaking of the Nazi Economy

An extraordinary mythology has grown up around the Third Reich that hovers over political and moral debate even today. Adam Tooze’s controversial new book challenges the conventional economic interpretations of that period to explore how Hitler’s surprisingly prescient vision- ultimately hindered by Germany’s limited resources and his own racial ideology-was to create a German super-state to dominate Europe and compete with what he saw as America’s overwhelming power in a soon-to- be globalized world.  […Learn More]

History

The Deluge: The Great War, America and the Remaking of the Global Order, 1916 – 1931

In the depths of the Great War, with millions dead and no imaginable end to the conflict, societies around the world began to buckle. The heart of the financial system shifted from London to New York. The infinite demands for men and matériel reached into countries far from the front. The strain of the war ravaged all economic and political assumptions, bringing unheard-of changes in the social and industrialorder. […Learn More]