The World Is Winning—and Losing—the Vaccine Race
September 19, 2020
Immunization to COVID-19 is supposed to solve our problems—but it’s starting to trigger even bigger ones. Faced with a pandemic that paralyzed the world, a
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The Prospect Interview #145: The Covid-19 economic crisis
September 9, 2020
The pandemic has shattered economies all over the globe. What can be done about it? Discussion with the Prospect Interview to talk about how the
How Much Should We Fear Post-Crisis Debt or Inflation? With The Breakdown podcast.
August 25, 2020
How Much Should We Fear Post-Crisis Debt or Inflation? My conversation with Nathaniel Whittemore (@nlw) at The Breakdown covers historical analogies for our present moment,
Central banks in the time of crisis with the World Review podcast
August 21, 2020
On this week’s World Review podcast, @JeremyCliffe & @emilyctamkin are joined by @adam_tooze to discuss central banks’ role in the coronavirus crisis (& the climate
Plurale Ökonomik August 2020: The COVID-19 shock: Crisis as usual or something new?
August 14, 2020
The coronavirus and the reaction to it have plunged the world into a deep economic crisis. What is new about this crisis, and what crisis
The Sociologist Who Could Save Us From Coronavirus
August 1, 2020
We all know the Chernobyl script. A badly designed reactor suffered a meltdown. The decrepit Soviet regime tried to hide the disaster. Millions of citizens
The World after Covid 19 with the SWOP Institute
July 30, 2020
The second webinar in a series co-hosted with the SWOP Institute, Wiser, History Workshop and the UJ History Department. For readings and details series please
Will The Global Economy Ever Come Back? with EU in the US
July 22, 2020
A conversation with Professor Adam Tooze (Director of the European Institute at Columbia University) and Moreno Bertoldi, Ben Carliner, and Kris Orsini (Delegation of the
Johannesburg Conversations with Adam Tooze: a panel discussion of Crashed
July 21, 2020
The first of two webinars with SWOP Institute. The webinar series was co-hosted with Wiser, History Workshop and the UJ History Department. Adam Tooze is
The latest figures are a wake-up call: the global Covid-19 crisis isn’t close to over
June 30, 2020
A coordinated response to the crisis in the Americas, India and Africa must be led by countries that have suppressed the virus It took more
COVIDCAST: ADAM TOOZE ON A WORLD ECONOMY IN FLUX
June 5, 2020
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Room for Discussion – Is the World Going Bust
June 4, 2020
From Room for Discussion: With the corona crisis leaving the world in a place of great uncertainty, we discussed how to use the crisis of
Dollar Dominance, the Eurozone, and the Future of Global Finance with David Beckworth on Macro Musings Podcast
June 1, 2020
Adam joins David on Macro Musings to discuss the COVID-19 crisis, the Eurozone, and the future of central banking. Specifically, Adam and David break down
Where We are Headed: discussion with Mark Mazower, Nick Mulder
May 14, 2020
Where We are Headed:War Economics and the Crisis: a Conversation between Adam Tooze and Nicholas Mulder. Conversation about the global economic response to the current
COVID: First Economic Crisis of the Anthropocene
May 7, 2020
In the spring of 2020 the streets of the major commercial capitals of the world from Lagos to Shanghai, London, and New York were eerily
Odd Lots Podcast: How This Crisis Is Different
April 27, 2020
Bloomberg’s Joe Weisenthal and Tracy Alloway take you on a not-so random weekly walk through hot topics in markets, finance and economics.
Should we be scared of the coronavirus debt mountain?
April 27, 2020
We do not know how the corona crisis ends. We do know that whenever it does we will be poorer as a result. GDP is
Realvision: The Fed’s New Unwritten Mandate, interview with Mark Blyth
April 24, 2020
Watch the video, read the transcript, or listen to the audio at RealVision. Professor Mark Blyth and Professor Adam Tooze explore how coronavirus is laying
The Coronavirus Oil Shock Is Just Getting Started (with N. Mulder)
April 23, 2020
The idea of a negative price for any commodity is outlandish, implying the seller is prepared to pay a buyer. But for oil, the largest
Shockwave with the Talking Politics podcast
April 20, 2020
David and Helen talk to Adam Tooze about what we know about the crisis that we didn’t know a month ago, and what we still
A Global Pandemic Bailout Was Coming—Until America Stopped It
April 17, 2020
In mid-April, in a normal year, American citizens rush to finish their tax returns, and the world’s financial elite gathers in Washington, D.C., for the
How coronavirus almost brought down the global financial system
April 16, 2020
In the third week of March 2020, while most of our minds were fixed on surging coronavirus death rates and the apocalyptic scenes in hospital
‘Corona Bonds’ and Europe’s North-South Divide
April 13, 2020
It is a cruel twist of fate that the Covid-19 crisis has exposed the basic faultline in the eurozone between north and south. The resulting
Politics Theory Other: A crisis like no other
April 10, 2020
Discussion on the Politics, Theory, Other podcast of what covid-19 means for the world economy, how the Trump administration has missed the boat on containing
The Normal Economy is Never Coming Back
April 9, 2020
As the coronavirus lockdown began, the first impulse was to search for historical analogies—1914, 1929, 1941? As the weeks have ground on, what has come
The eurozone’s ‘whatever it takes’ mantra has a problem
April 5, 2020
“Whatever it takes” is the mantra of the moment. Hammered out to an audience of Eurosceptic hedge fund managers at the height of the 2012
Shockwave
April 4, 2020
In March 2020 as Europe and the US were overwhelmed by the prospect of the COVID-19 pandemic, investors panicked. Had it not been for spectacular
Interview with Menaka Doshi on Bloomberg Quint: The World After Corona
April 1, 2020
The world after the coronavirus crisis: Professor Adam Tooze speaks to Menaka Doshi.
America is ailing – and leading the world
April 1, 2020
This is the first great crisis of the post-American world,” former Swedish Foreign Minister Carl Bildt tweeted on Wednesday. “The UN Security Council is nowhere
The Coronavirus Is the Biggest Emerging Markets Crisis Ever
March 29, 2020
We used to think that the 2007-2008 financial crisis set the standard for a savage global shock. But that crisis took more than 12 months
We Have Never Been Here Before
March 25, 2020
In trying to gauge the coronavirus crisis, we are all struggling for historical reference points. Which is the historical example to choose? The turmoil in
The shock of coronavirus could split Europe – unless nations share the burden, with Moritz Schularick
March 25, 2020
During the 2008 financial crisis, many observers predicted the imminent collapse of the European currency project. They were wrong. The euro held together. Yet what
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