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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

The world’s central banks are starting to experiment. But what comes next?

September 9, 2020

Are we seeing the end of the supremacy of the US dollar? With soaring government spending and gaping deficits are we on the cusp of

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

It’s a New Europe—if You Can Keep It

August 7, 2020

“This summer, Europe is basking in a sense of accomplishment. On July 21, after protracted labor, the European Union announced the birth of a historic

Interview in Intelligencer: A Historian of Economic Crisis on the World After COVID-19

August 7, 2020

Was thrilled to chat with the very smart interviewer from the Intelligencer, Eric Levitz, read the full interview here. A quote from the article: something

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

Whose Century?

July 29, 2020

What Eric Hobsbawm called the ‘short 20th century’ is supposed to have ended in 1989 with the United States winning the Cold War. Yet today

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

Trade Wars Are Class Wars: Adam Tooze, Michael Pettis, & Matthew Klein in conversation

June 13, 2020

Michael Pettis and Matthew Klein’s new book Trade Wars Are Class Wars begins with an epigraph from John A. Hobson: “The struggle for markets, the

Europe Blows Up with the Talking Politics podcast

May 21, 2020

How does a judgement of the German constitutional court threaten to explode the European project? David talk to Helen Thompson, Adam Tooze and Shahin Vallee

The Death of the Central Bank Myth

May 13, 2020

In Europe, a ruling by the German Constitutional Court that the European Central Bank (ECB) failed to adequately justify a program of asset purchases it

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