Adam Tooze

Adam Tooze is Kathryn and Shelby Cullom Davis Professor of History at Columbia University and director of the European Institute. A British-German economic historian who trained at Cambridge and LSE, he is best known for "The Wages of Destruction" (a revisionist economic history of the Third Reich's war economy), "Crashed: How a Decade of Financial Crises Changed the World" (2018), and "Shutdown: How Covid Shook the World's Economy" (2021). "Crashed" — documenting the 2008 financial crisis and its aftermath — became essential reading for economists, policymakers, and financial professionals for its global, cross-border perspective on how the dollar system and Federal Reserve swap lines became the linchpin of global financial stability. His "Chartbook" Substack newsletter, which combines economic data visualization with historical and political analysis, has become one of the most influential subscription publications in economic discourse. Tooze bridges academic history, macroeconomics, and real-time economic commentary in a distinctive public intellectual role.