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Adam Tooze


Adam Tooze is the Kathryn and Shelby Cullom Davis Professor of History at Columbia University and Director of the European Institute. He is the author of several books, the most recent is Shutdown: How COVID shook the world's economy (2021). He writes the Chartbook Newsletter and is an FT contributing editor.

  • Friday, 28 March, 2025
    Foreign aid
    Aid’s grim counter-revolution will prove self-defeating

    Arguments for slashing overseas development assistance in favour of defence fail on their own terms

    A woman prepares food for her internally displaced Congolese family
  • Friday, 7 March, 2025
    US foreign policy
    US global leadership has never been plain sailing

    Trump is the heir to a national-populist strain that runs deep in American politics

    Volodymyr Zelenskyy in the Oval Office with Donald Trump and JD Vance last week
  • Monday, 3 February, 2025
    Global Economy
    The future of international economic institutions is up for grabs

    Preserving the status quo on global development will not work

    Commuters and pedestrians use a street crossing in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia
  • Thursday, 5 December, 2024
    Climate change
    Only China can now lead the world on climate

    As far as global environmental concerns go, the US has an irretrievably split personality

    Oil pump jacks in Midland, Texas
  • Friday, 1 November, 2024
    Global Economy
    Poor nations are choking on debt — we must grasp the solutions

    Political instability and meagre investment hobble large parts of the world

    Sudanese farmer Sena Abdura stands for a portrait as she prepares the land around her house to plant sorghum shortly after the first rains arrived in Kauda in the Nuba Mountains
  • Monday, 7 October, 2024
    Global Economy
    The old US economic policy is dying and the new cannot be born

    Industrial rivalry and tensions with China frame a confused debate about the pressures of globalisation

    An employee wearing a cleanroom suit walks beneath Automated Material Handling Systems (AMHS) vehicle robots moving along tracks on the ceiling inside the GlobalFoundries semiconductor manufacturing facility in Malta, New York,
  • Friday, 30 August, 2024
    Foreign aid
    Rich countries tilt the scales when it comes to aid

    Large-scale western support for Ukraine contrasts with smaller efforts for poor countries that are in dire need

    Furaha Elisabeth applies medication on the skin of her child Sagesse Hakizimana who is under treatment against Mpox
  • Thursday, 8 August, 2024
    Central America
    Kamala Harris must face America’s nimbyism head on

    Deep policy fatigue has led to failure on even modest improvements in Central and Latin American economies

    Migrants walk along the border fence after crossing into the US from Mexico at night
  • Thursday, 4 July, 2024
    Renewable energy
    Stifling China’s green energy boom would be a disaster

    Does the government in Beijing have the courage to throw its weight behind what business is already doing?

    Chinese workers inspecting solar panels at a rooftop of a power plant in Fuzhou
  • Saturday, 1 June, 2024
    German politics
    Germany’s fractious coalition dithers as the heat rises in Europe

    Optimists have faith that the EU will always pull through but crisis-fighting depends on choices made in Berlin

    A middle-aged man in a suit looks up while on a stage
  • Sunday, 12 May, 2024
    US dollar
    Dangers of dollar nationalism hang over the world economy

    Even more serious than Fed rate rises would be a politically driven devaluation of the US currency

    A clerk poses with US dollar banknotes
  • Saturday, 30 March, 2024
    Health
    Vaccine investment is a no-brainer — so why aren’t we doing it?

    Not only is the cost-benefit ratio unbeatable, but not to undertake this spending is to court disaster

    A healthworker in a face mask injects a Covid vaccine into a woman’s arm
  • Tuesday, 5 March, 2024
    US foreign policy
    America’s economic security doctrine has taken on a darker hue

    Washington seeks to defend the rules-based order with unruly, self-interested interventions

    Side view of Joe Biden on stage talking and pointing with his right hand
  • Friday, 26 January, 2024
    Global Economy
    The IMF is an anchor adrift in a changing world economy

    Western countries are over-represented but there are formidable obstacles to reform

    John Maynard Keynes addressing the Bretton Woods conference on Post War reconstruction and economic order in 1944
  • Friday, 26 January, 2024
    FT Swamp Notes
    Biden and the spectre of polycrisis Premium content

    So many crises assail the world that their spilling into each other and merging is a genuine risk

    US President Joe Biden speaking at a podium
  • Friday, 22 December, 2023
    Geopolitics
    2023 shows that economic growth does not always breed peace

    Global interconnection did produce real change, but not only in the ways the west hoped

    Benjamin Netanyahu and Vladimir Putin
  • Wednesday, 8 November, 2023
    Israel-Hamas war
    There will be no peace in the Middle East without politics

    That is the lesson that all sides should draw from the postwar settlement in Europe

    Allied leaders at the Potsdam conference in 1945. The subsequent settlement, of which Israel’s foundation is an extension, shows the painful trade-offs even a good peace entails
  • Thursday, 19 October, 2023
    Unhedged
    India at the centre: the verdict of Unhedged and Chartbook Premium content

    India’s geopolitical and economic pull is growing

    France’s president Emmanuel Macron, Indonesia’s president Joko Widodo, India’s prime minister Narendra Modi, Brazil’s president Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva and US president Joe Biden pay their respect at the Mahatma Gandhi memorial at Raj Ghat on the sidelines of the G20 summit in New Delhi on September 10, 2023
  • Thursday, 5 October, 2023
    Unhedged
    The Biden scorecard: the verdict of Unhedged and Chartbook Premium content

    The first of three collaborations with historian Adam Tooze

    Joe Biden
  • Sunday, 1 October, 2023
    German politics
    Germany must invest to neutralise the far-right threat

    A once successful growth model has run out of steam and migrants are needed to fill labour market shortages

    Balloons showing support for AfD during a campaign for local elections in Nordhausen, central Germany, last month
  • Monday, 28 August, 2023
    Foreign aid
    The west has failed to keep its promises on aid

    US and EU attempts to respond to China’s Belt and Road Initiative have fallen dismally short

    Women tend to crops in Niger, which has the third-lowest human development index in the world
  • Thursday, 27 July, 2023
    European Union
    Europe should not be too relaxed this summer as big challenges await

    From migration to Ukraine, Europe’s future worry list runs much deeper than fiscal rules

    Volodymyr Zelenskyy greets Ursula von der Leyen in Kyiv. Ukraine’s EU accession is now squarely on the agenda
  • Thursday, 29 June, 2023
    Global inflation
    Now is a time of tough choices — including on the 2% inflation target

    That goal should be subject to public scrutiny and judged against the demands of the moment

    Paul Volcker
  • Friday, 2 June, 2023
    US politics & policy
    Why America’s economic policy muddle matters

    The messy nature of decisions is important both for US citizens and the world

    Treasury secretary Janet Yellen. In the US, monetary policy, industrial policy and fiscal policy are not only assigned to different targets, they follow entirely different logics
  • Wednesday, 24 May, 2023
    ReviewFT Books Essay
    The Economic Government of the World — an end to globalisation?

    Martin Daunton’s history of trade liberalisation shows that capricious US opinion has always mattered most

    Cranes and containers line a stretch of waterfront
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