History

The 1970s Weren’t What You Think

July 1, 2022

Yes, fiscal and monetary policy seemed stuck for too long in expansionary mode. But the era also saw the rebalancing of the world economy. Some

War at the end of history

April 6, 2022

Will Putin’s invasion of Ukraine lead to a new world order, or an era of grinding compromise? It was the French Revolution that defined the

Ecological Leninism

November 15, 2021

Adam Tooze on Andreas Malm’s post-pandemic climate politics The carbon clock is ticking. Governments and official agencies assure us that all will be well, that they can

How China Avoided Soviet-Style Collapse

September 16, 2021

Understanding the shifting balance of social forces, interest groups and political factions is essential to see how China escaped the shock therapy that brought down

Wages of Destruction with WW2TV

July 30, 2021

A look at Germany’s wartime economy as explored by Adam’s in his award winning book The Wages of Destruction. Our talking points will include the

World War I and the Reconstruction of the Global Order with Huang Yanjie ‘The Paper’

July 4, 2021

亚当·图兹谈第一次世界大战与全球秩序的重建一百年前，一个新的世界秩序在第一次世界大战的废墟上艰难地建立起来，然后很快就在纷至沓来的金融危机、法西斯运动和二次世界大战中分崩离析。多年来，我们对于一战后秩序重建的历史认识一直受制于二战的后见之明：冥顽不灵的克列孟梭、理想主义的威尔逊和料事如神的凯恩斯。亚当·图兹（Adam Tooze）正是要挑战这一常识。他认为，一战后的欧洲政治精英对时事的判断远超威尔逊和凯恩斯，但后者比前者更能代表历史的长期趋势。他告诫他的欧洲史同行，认识一战及其以后的秩序首先要注意美国的兴起，正如理解当代史必须留意中国崛起。从外部看，美国似乎已经是一个巨人。一战使美国成为全球政治和金融执牛耳者，而美国经济已然成为世界各国必须面对的挑战。从内部看，美国只是一个少年。美国内战的伤痕尚未愈合，而国家政权建设方兴未艾，无力进行全球扩张。面对一战前后才出现的全球治理挑战，美国在理想与现实中徘徊，直到二战彻底打破旧世界，才得以用凯恩斯主义重构内外秩序。亚当·图兹教授的《滔天洪水：第一次世界大战与全球秩序的重建》仿佛让我们回到一战后期与战后的历史现场，在结构性的力量与历史人物之间、在偶然事件和历史趋势之间，发现上世纪中期世界战争与革命的根源。 Read the full interview with Huang Yanjie at The Paper.

Columbia DC, 150th anniversary of German unification: Bismarck, Realpolitik, and Birth of a Nation

150th anniversary of German unification: Bismarck, Realpolitik, and Birth of a Nation With Columbia DC

June 24, 2021

Napoleon’s invasion smashed the Holy Roman Empire in 1806 and with it what was left of the early modern/medieval frame. Class strife in the wake

Adam Tooze on Wages of Destruction and the Nazi economy

December 26, 2020

Prof. Adam Tooze ist spätestens seit seinem Bestseller “Crashed. Wie zehn Jahre Finanzkrise die Welt verändert haben” einer der bekanntesten Wirtschaftshistoriker der Welt. Im 10.

Talk of a global economic reset must not ignore grim realities

December 20, 2020

Scientists may have provided us with a miraculous fix for Covid, but history shows that any path to recovery will be long. Read the full

V2: A Novel of World War II – A Lunchtime Conversation with Robert Harris and Adam Tooze

December 4, 2020

Go back in time to 1944 in Robert Harris’s thriller V2: A NOVEL OF WORLD WAR II. In partnership with Miami Book Fair.

Interview with Ewald Engelen at VVOJ conference 2020

November 25, 2020

How caon journalists report on the current crisis? How do you penetrate to the highest ranks of major global institutions such as the IMF, the

A New Role for the ECB

July 5, 2020

Eine neue Rolle für die EZB Das Urteil des Bundesverfassungsgerichts zum Anleihekaufprogramm PSPP der Europäischen Zentralbank (EZB) war ein bedeutender Eingriff in das europäische Recht

We Remember World War II Wrong

May 7, 2020

One of the casualties of the COVID-19 pandemic is the great Victory Day parade that had been planned for Moscow’s Red Square for May 9.

Financial Past and Future – Conversations with Tyler podcast

May 6, 2020

Watch the video above or listen to the recording below. Adam joined Tyler to discuss the historically unusual decision to have a high-cost lockdown during

What the Economist Doesn’t Tell You

March 30, 2020

What is liberalism? It means and has meant many different things. We speak of Market liberalism, social liberalism and cultural liberalism. Anti-clerical atheists have been

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

Adam Tooze speaking at a podium with a screen in the back that says Green New Deal

NYU Abu Dhabi: Green New Deal Twentieth Century Shadows on Climate Crisis

February 5, 2020

The climate crisis is the greatest challenge of the 21st century, but Western politics continues to approach it through the lens of 20th-century history. References

How Climate Change has Supercharged the Left

January 15, 2020

The climate emergency is stirring radical politics across the world. Most notably, the left wings of both the Democratic Party in the United States and

To the Bitter End

December 5, 2019

Emil Nolde: The Artist during the Third Reichedited by Bernhard Fulda, Aya Soika and Christian Ring.Prestel, 320 pp., £45, May 2019, 978 3 7913 5894

The Anxious Triumph by Donald Sassoon – why capitalism leads to crisis

August 1, 2019

On 20 January 1981, in his inaugural address as 40th president of the United States, Ronald Reagan declared: “Government is not the solution to our

Which is worse? Germany divided

July 18, 2019

This year is both the 70th anniversary of the formation of the Federal Republic of Germany and the 30th anniversary of the fall of the

Democracy and Its Discontents

June 6, 2019

For the American right, Donald Trump’s inauguration as the forty-fifth president of the United States was a moment of political rebirth. Elements of American conservatism

Adam Tooze standing at a podium speaking

“Versailles and the Interwar Crisis: The Problem of Hegemony Revisited”

May 23, 2019

“Versailles and the Interwar Crisis: The Problem of Hegemony Revisited” at the opening of The Paris Centennial Conference. The Paris Centennial Conference, from May 23-26,

Adam Tooze speaking at a podium, gesturing with one hand

With LRB: American Power in the Long 20th Century

March 27, 2019

The history of American power, as it is commonly written, is a weighty subject, a matter of military and economic heft, of ‘throw-weight’, of resource

Davos 2019 – When Global Orders Fail

February 10, 2019

From the Great Depression to the populist fallout from the 2008 crash, shocks to the financial architecture open cracks in domestic and international politics. Join

World order without America? Brookings Institution with Bob Kagan

November 13, 2018

The 2008 Global Crisis: Approaches to a Future History

March 27, 2018

Not since the Napoleonic Wars have workers in Britain experienced similarly poor wage growth.

March 10, 2017

UK recovery since 2008 confirmed by latest budget forecasts as the slowest since WWII. Real pay growth stagnation is most severe in more than 200 years! The historic precedent for our current situation are the Napoleonic wars.

ADAM TOOZE

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