Biography:Adam Tooze

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Adam Tooze
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Born
John Adam Tooze

(1967-07-05) 5 July 1967 (age 56)
London, England
Awards
  • Philip Leverhulme Prize (2002)
  • Wolfson History Prize (2006)
  • Lionel Gelber Prize (2019)
Academic background
Alma mater
ThesisOfficial Statistics and Economic Governance in Interwar Germany (1996)
Doctoral advisorAlan Milward
InfluencesWynne Godley[1]
Academic work
DisciplineHistory
Sub-discipline
Institutions
Notable works
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John Adam Tooze (born 1967) is an English historian who is a professor at Columbia University, Director of the European Institute[2][3][4] and nonresident scholar at Carnegie Europe. Previously, he was Reader in Twentieth-Century History at the University of Cambridge and Gurnee Hart Fellow in History at Jesus College, Cambridge.[5] 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[9] to British parents who met at Cambridge. His maternal grandparents were the social researchers Arthur and Margaret Wynn, who together wrote a study of the financial connections of the Conservative Party establishment.[10] Arthur was also a civil servant and recruiter of Soviet spies at Oxford. Tooze's father was a molecular biologist who worked in Heidelberg, West Germany, where Tooze spent much of his childhood. He had an early interest in engineering and an aspiration to design engines for race cars. A precocious student, at secondary school he was permitted to teach a class on Keynesian modelling.[11]

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 Philip Leverhulme Prize for Modern History for his first book, Statistics and the German State, 1900–1945: The Making of Modern Economic Knowledge. [citation needed] He first came to prominence for his economic study of the Third Reich, The Wages of Destruction, which was one of the winners of the 2006 Wolfson History Prize,[15] and a broad-based history of the First World War with The Deluge, published in 2014. He then widened his scope to study the financial crash of 2008 and its economic and geopolitical consequences with Crashed: How a Decade of Financial Crises Changed the World, published in 2018, for which he won the 2019 Lionel Gelber Prize.[16]

Tooze writes for numerous publications, including the Financial Times,[17] London Review of Books,[18] New Left Review,[19] The Wall Street Journal , The Guardian ,[20] Foreign Policy,[21] and Die Zeit.[22] Since 2022 he sits on the board of the ZOE Institute for Future-fit economies.[23]

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.[24]

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

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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.[25] ISBN:0-521-80318-7 Translated in German.
  • The Wages of Destruction: The Making and Breaking of the Nazi Economy, London: Allen Lane, 2006.[26] ISBN:0-7139-9566-1 Translated in German, French, Dutch, Italian, Polish, Portuguese and Russian.
  • The Deluge: The Great War, America and the Remaking of the Global Order, 1916–1931, London: Allen Lane, 2014.[27] ISBN:9781846140341 Translated 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.[28] ISBN:9781846140365 Translated in German, French, Dutch, Italian, Spanish, Portuguese, Chinese, Russian and Greek.
  • Shutdown: How Covid Shook the World's Economy, Allen Lane, Sep 7 2021.[29]
As editor
  • Cambridge History of World War II. Volume 3 with Michael Geyer, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2015.[30]
  • Normalität und Fragilität: Demokratie nach dem Ersten Weltkrieg with Tim B. Müller,[31] Hamburg: Hamburger Editionen, 2015.[32]

Substack newsletter

Essays and reporting

  • "Is this the end of the American century? America Pivots", London Review of Books, 4 April 2019.[33][34]
  • "Democracy and Its Discontents", The New York Review of Books, 6 June 2019.[35]
  • Additional, ongoing series of original articles written after the publication of his last book on his website, entitled Framing Crashed.[36]
  • "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
2020 Tooze, Adam (3–23 April 2020). "The War Against Climate Change". New Statesman 149 (5514): 66–69. 

References

  1. ↑ 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."
  2. ↑ "Adam Tooze | European Institute". https://europe.columbia.edu/content/adam-tooze. 
  3. ↑ Fischer, Molly (2022-03-28). "The Cult of Adam Tooze" (in en-us). https://nymag.com/intelligencer/article/adam-tooze-profile.html. 
  4. ↑ "Adam Tooze" (in en). https://carnegieendowment.org/experts/2170. 
  5. ↑ Tooze, Adam (April 2016). "Adam Tooze's CV". https://adamtooze.com/app/uploads/2016/03/Tooze-CV-April-2016-.doc. 
  6. ↑ "Adam Tooze | History Politics Theory". http://campuspress.yale.edu/adamtooze/. 
  7. ↑ "Bio" (in en-US). https://adamtooze.com/bio/. 
  8. ↑ 8.0 8.1 Lowrey, Annie (5 July 2022). "A Crisis Historian Has Some Bad News for Us" (in en). https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2022/07/adam-tooze-chartbook-substack-newsletter-inflation-crisis/661467/. 
  9. ↑ Adam Tooze [@adam_tooze] (5 July 2016). "This IS a birthday treat ... My first book: Ladybird's William the Conqueror.". https://twitter.com/adam_tooze/status/750324297617567745. 
  10. ↑ Phillips, Angela (17 February 2010). "Margaret Wynn obituary". The Guardian (London). https://www.theguardian.com/society/2010/feb/17/margaret-wynn-obituary. 
  11. ↑ Fischer, Molly (28 March 2022). "The Cult of Adam Tooze". New York (New York City: New York Media). https://nymag.com/intelligencer/article/adam-tooze-profile.html. Retrieved 29 March 2022. 
  12. ↑ Hughes, Patrick; Davies, Ian F. Highgate School Register 1833-1988. p. 422. 
  13. ↑ "Tooze, Adam | Department of History - Columbia University" (in en-US). https://history.columbia.edu/faculty/tooze-adam/. 
  14. ↑ "Faculty: Adam Tooze". yale.edu. http://www.yale.edu/history/faculty/tooze_a.html. 
  15. ↑ "Previous Winners - The Wolfson Foundation". http://www.wolfson.org.uk/history-prize/about-the-prize/previous-winners/. 
  16. ↑ "Adam Tooze Wins the 2019 Lionel Gelber Prize for Crashed; How a Decade of Financial Crises Changed the World". 26 February 2019. https://munkschool.utoronto.ca/gelber/wp-content/uploads/2019-Lionel-Gelber-Prize-Winner-Announcement-FINAL.pdf. 
  17. ↑ "Adam Tooze" (in en-GB). https://www.ft.com/stream/3b52dd88-b22c-4c86-88f6-b5b172387088. 
  18. ↑ "Adam Tooze · LRB". https://www.lrb.co.uk/contributors/adam-tooze. 
  19. ↑ "New Left Review - author" (in en). https://newleftreview.org/authors/adam-tooze. 
  20. ↑ "Adam Tooze" (in en). https://www.theguardian.com/profile/adam-tooze. 
  21. ↑ Tooze, Adam. "Adam Tooze" (in en). https://foreignpolicy.com/author/dawelsch/. 
  22. ↑ "Adam Tooze" (in de). ZEIT ONLINE. https://www.zeit.de/autoren/T/Adam_Tooze/index. 
  23. ↑ "Prof Adam Tooze – ZOE Institute for Future-fit Economies". https://zoe-institut.de/en/person/prof-adam-tooze/. 
  24. ↑ Tooze, Adam (2007). The Wages of Destruction (1st ed.). New York, New York: Viking Penguin. p. v. ISBN 978-0-670-03826-8. 
  25. ↑ "Statistics and the German State" (in en-US). https://adamtooze.com/books/statistics-and-the-german-state/. 
  26. ↑ "The Wages of Destruction" (in en-US). https://adamtooze.com/books/the-wages-of-destruction/. 
  27. ↑ "The Deluge" (in en-US). https://adamtooze.com/books/the-deluge/. 
  28. ↑ "Crashed" (in en-US). https://adamtooze.com/books/crashed-2018/. 
  29. ↑ Tooze, Adam (2 September 2021). "Has Covid ended the neoliberal era?". The Guardian. https://www.theguardian.com/news/2021/sep/02/covid-and-the-crisis-of-neoliberalism. 
  30. ↑ "The Cambridge History of the Second World War" (in en-US). https://adamtooze.com/books/the-cambridge-history-of-the-second-world-war/. 
  31. ↑ Sozialforschung, Hamburger Institut für. "Personen Detailansicht". https://www.his-online.de/personen/personen-detail/person/tim-b-mueller/. 
  32. ↑ "Normalität und Fragilität: Demokratie nach dem Ersten Weltkrieg" (in en-US). https://adamtooze.com/books/normalitat-und-fragilitat/. 
  33. ↑ Tooze, Adam (2019-04-04). "Is this the end of the American century?". London Review of Books: pp. 3–7. ISSN 0260-9592. https://www.lrb.co.uk/v41/n07/adam-tooze/is-this-the-end-of-the-american-century. 
  34. ↑ London Review of Books (LRB) (2019-03-27), Adam Tooze: American Power in the Long 20th Century, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=09s-T778ciA, retrieved 2019-03-31 
  35. ↑ Tooze, Adam (2019-06-06). "Democracy and Its Discontents" (in en). New York Review of Books. ISSN 0028-7504. https://www.nybooks.com/articles/2019/06/06/democracy-and-its-discontents/. 
  36. ↑ "Framing Crashed Archives" (in en-US). https://adamtooze.com/category/blog/framing-crashed/. 

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