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Adam Tooze is a British historian and professor of history at Columbia University, known for his works on economic and global history, including studies of the World Wars and modern capitalism.
Known for: Crashed: How a Decade of Financial Crises Changed the World, Shutdown: How Covid Shook the World's Economy, The Deluge: The Great War and the Remaking of Global Order, The Deluge: The Great War, America and the Remaking of the Global Order, 1916–1931, The Wages of Destruction: The Making and Breaking of the Nazi Economy
Books by Adam Tooze
Crashed: How a Decade of Financial Crises Changed the World
Crashed es un análisis exhaustivo de la crisis financiera global de 2008 y sus consecuencias políticas y económicas. Adam Tooze examina cómo el colapso de los mercados financieros transformó el orden ...
Shutdown: How Covid Shook the World's Economy
In 'Shutdown: How Covid Shook the World's Economy', historian Adam Tooze examines the global economic and political consequences of the COVID-19 pandemic. He explores how governments, central banks, a...
The Deluge: The Great War and the Remaking of Global Order
A sweeping history of the aftermath of World War I, this book examines how the conflict reshaped the global political and economic order. Adam Tooze explores the collapse of empires, the rise of the U...
The Deluge: The Great War, America and the Remaking of the Global Order, 1916–1931
A sweeping history of the aftermath of World War I, 'The Deluge' examines how the United States emerged as a global power and reshaped the international order between 1916 and 1931. Adam Tooze explore...
The Wages of Destruction: The Making and Breaking of the Nazi Economy
A groundbreaking economic history of Nazi Germany, this book examines how Adolf Hitler’s regime sought to transform the German economy to sustain its militaristic ambitions. Adam Tooze explores the in...
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The Pre-Crisis Global Economy
At the dawn of the twenty-first century, the global economy appeared to have mastered stability. Inflation was low, growth was steady, and globalization seemed unstoppable. But beneath that surface harmony lay profound structural imbalances. The United States was consuming more than it produced, run...
From Crashed: How a Decade of Financial Crises Changed the World
The Collapse of Lehman Brothers
In September 2008, the unthinkable happened. Lehman Brothers—a Wall Street institution older than many nations—collapsed. Its fall was not merely the bankruptcy of a single firm but a shockwave that revealed the world’s financial arteries were clogged with interbank credit exposures and fragile conf...
From Crashed: How a Decade of Financial Crises Changed the World
The Initial Shock
The first months of 2020 unfolded with a surreal intensity. The virus spread rapidly across borders, transforming from a local outbreak in Wuhan to a global emergency. Economies froze almost overnight. Airplanes sat idle on tarmacs, factories halted production, and millions of workers were sent home...
From Shutdown: How Covid Shook the World's Economy
Emergency Responses
Faced with catastrophe, states acted on a scale previously unimaginable. Fiscal and monetary authorities unleashed trillions in support, replacing market transactions with direct state intervention. Central banks flooded markets with liquidity while governments took on the role of payer of last reso...
From Shutdown: How Covid Shook the World's Economy
The Collapse of the European Empires and the Shift After 1918
The year 1918 was not just the end of a war; it was the death of a world. The Austro-Hungarian, Ottoman, Russian, and eventually German empires disintegrated, leaving behind a vast vacuum of authority. The British and French, though victorious, could not mask their decline. Their global influence st...
From The Deluge: The Great War and the Remaking of Global Order
The Paris Peace Conference and the New International Order
The Paris Peace Conference in 1919 was perhaps the most ambitious diplomatic gathering in human history. For six months, statesmen tried to design an international order that could contain the tragedies they had just endured. Yet behind closed doors, the discussions were both visionary and deeply fl...
From The Deluge: The Great War and the Remaking of Global Order
About Adam Tooze
Adam Tooze is a British historian and professor of history at Columbia University, known for his works on economic and global history, including studies of the World Wars and modern capitalism.
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