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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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