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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.

  • Saturday, 1 June, 2024
    German politics
    Germany’s fractious coalition dithers as the heat rises in Europe

    Optimists have faith that the EU will always pull through but crisis-fighting depends on choices made in Berlin

    A middle-aged man in a suit looks up while on a stage
  • Sunday, 12 May, 2024
    US Dollar
    Dangers of dollar nationalism hang over the world economy

    Even more serious than Fed rate rises would be a politically driven devaluation of the US currency

    A clerk poses with US dollar banknotes
  • Saturday, 30 March, 2024
    Health
    Vaccine investment is a no-brainer — so why aren’t we doing it?

    Not only is the cost-benefit ratio unbeatable, but not to undertake this spending is to court disaster

    A healthworker in a face mask injects a Covid vaccine into a woman’s arm
  • Tuesday, 5 March, 2024
    US foreign policy
    America’s economic security doctrine has taken on a darker hue

    Washington seeks to defend the rules-based order with unruly, self-interested interventions

    Side view of Joe Biden on stage talking and pointing with his right hand
  • Friday, 26 January, 2024
    Global Economy
    The IMF is an anchor adrift in a changing world economy

    Western countries are over-represented but there are formidable obstacles to reform

    John Maynard Keynes addressing the Bretton Woods conference on Post War reconstruction and economic order in 1944
  • Friday, 26 January, 2024
    FT Swamp Notes
    Biden and the spectre of polycrisis Premium content

    So many crises assail the world that their spilling into each other and merging is a genuine risk

    US President Joe Biden speaking at a podium
  • Friday, 22 December, 2023
    Geopolitics
    2023 shows that economic growth does not always breed peace

    Global interconnection did produce real change, but not only in the ways the west hoped

    Benjamin Netanyahu and Vladimir Putin
  • Wednesday, 8 November, 2023
    Israel-Hamas war
    There will be no peace in the Middle East without politics

    That is the lesson that all sides should draw from the postwar settlement in Europe

    Allied leaders at the Potsdam conference in 1945. The subsequent settlement, of which Israel’s foundation is an extension, shows the painful trade-offs even a good peace entails
  • Thursday, 19 October, 2023
    Unhedged
    India at the centre: the verdict of Unhedged and Chartbook Premium content

    India’s geopolitical and economic pull is growing

    France’s president Emmanuel Macron, Indonesia’s president Joko Widodo, India’s prime minister Narendra Modi, Brazil’s president Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva and US president Joe Biden pay their respect at the Mahatma Gandhi memorial at Raj Ghat on the sidelines of the G20 summit in New Delhi on September 10, 2023
  • Thursday, 5 October, 2023
    Unhedged
    The Biden scorecard: the verdict of Unhedged and Chartbook Premium content

    The first of three collaborations with historian Adam Tooze

    Joe Biden
  • Sunday, 1 October, 2023
    German politics
    Germany must invest to neutralise the far-right threat

    A once successful growth model has run out of steam and migrants are needed to fill labour market shortages

    Balloons showing support for AfD during a campaign for local elections in Nordhausen, central Germany, last month
  • Monday, 28 August, 2023
    Foreign aid
    The west has failed to keep its promises on aid

    US and EU attempts to respond to China’s Belt and Road Initiative have fallen dismally short

    Women tend to crops in Niger, which has the third-lowest human development index in the world
  • Thursday, 27 July, 2023
    European Union
    Europe should not be too relaxed this summer as big challenges await

    From migration to Ukraine, Europe’s future worry list runs much deeper than fiscal rules

    Volodymyr Zelenskyy greets Ursula von der Leyen in Kyiv. Ukraine’s EU accession is now squarely on the agenda
  • Thursday, 29 June, 2023
    Global inflation
    Now is a time of tough choices — including on the 2% inflation target

    That goal should be subject to public scrutiny and judged against the demands of the moment

    Paul Volcker
  • 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

    Treasury secretary Janet Yellen. In the US, monetary policy, industrial policy and fiscal policy are not only assigned to different targets, they follow entirely different logics
  • 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

    Cranes and containers line a stretch of waterfront
  • 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

    Henry Paulson, then Treasury secretary, left, meets with China’s then minister of finance Xie Xuren in 2008 in Beijing
  • 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

    People of different races ride a long bicycle that has many crank shafts and pedals on the same frame
  • 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

    A UBS and a Credit Suisse logo on buildings in Zurich
  • 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

    Ukrainian soldiers fire a shell in the Kharkiv region in the east of the country
  • 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

    French president Emmanuel Macron, EU Commission president Ursula von der Leyen and US president Joe Biden applaud at the Global Fund’s Seventh Replenishment Conference in New York in September
  • 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

    FTX’s Sam Bankman-Fried with Tony Blair and Bill Clinton in the Bahamas
  • 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

    Wildfires in California have forced thousands to evacuate their homes in recent years. There is a growing anxiety that we are hurtling towards catastrophic ecological tipping points
  • 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

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