Adam Tooze’s books include Crashed, about the financial crisis. Shutdown: How Covid Shook the World’s Economy will be reviewed in a future issue of the LRB.
Wolfgang Schäuble can’t have expected an easy ride when he moved from Germany’s Interior Ministry to its Finance Ministry on 28 October 2009. Angela Merkel’s new coalition with the Free Democratic Party (FDP), the free market Liberals, was committed to reducing the government deficit. That summer the preceding Grand Coalition – the name for a coalition...
Adam Tooze examines an alternative, counterintuitive vision of America, as a power defying gravity.
How does a judgement of the German constitutional court threaten to explode the European project? David Runciman talks to Helen Thompson, Adam Tooze and Shahin Vallee about what the court's decision might...
David and Helen talk to Adam Tooze in New York about the possible impact of coronavirus on the global financial and political system.
David and Helen take take in the global situation with Adam Tooze, and consider the bigger threats we face.
Much of the poorer part of the world is still susceptible to the disease, and as long as it is, many more people will die, and the risk of new and more dangerous variants will remain. In May 2020, the...
In 2007, Alan Greenspan, the former chair of the Federal Reserve, was asked by a Swiss newspaper which presidential candidate he was supporting. He said it didn’t matter: ‘We are...
A common and still widely accepted story of the origin of the Second World War is that it was the direct result of what happened in 1919 at the end of the Great War. The French were...
Richard Evans’s history of the Third Reich – it will be completed by a third volume covering the war – is an invaluable work of synthesis. The mass of specialist studies we now...
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