Adam Tooze

About the author

Adam Tooze (born 1967 in London) is an English-American historian whose work spans twentieth-century economic and political history. A professor at Columbia University, he also serves as Director of the European Institute and nonresident scholar at Carnegie Europe. Before Columbia, he held posts at Cambridge — as Reader in Twentieth-Century History and Gurnee Hart Fellow at Jesus College — and at Yale, where he directed International Security Studies at the MacMillan Center, succeeding Paul Kennedy.

His books include Crashed, and he runs the widely read online newsletter Chartbook.