Adam Tooze

Bio

Professor Tooze teaches and researches widely in the fields of twentieth-century and contemporary history. From a start in modern German history with a special focus on the history of economics and economic history his interests have widened to take in a range of themes in political, intellectual and military history, across a canvass stretching from Europe across the Atlantic. His most recent book is a new global history of the Great Financial Crisis of 2007 and after - Crashed: How a Decade of Financial Crises Changed the World.

Education

• PhD, London School of Economics
• BA, University of Cambridge, King's College

Selected Publications

Books

• Crashed: How a Decade of Financial Crises Changed the World
  Penguin Random House (2018)
• The Deluge: The Great War and the Remaking of the Global Order 1916-1931
  UK edition Penguin Allen Lane (2014)
• The Wages of Destruction: The Making and Breaking of the Nazi Economy
  UK edition Penguin Allen Lane (2006)
• Statistics and the German State 1900-1945: The Making of Modern Economic Knowledge
  Cambridge University Press (2001)

Edited Books

• Cambridge History of World War II. Volume 3.
  Michael Geyer and Adam Tooze, eds.
  Cambridge University Press (2015)
• Normalität und Fragilität: Demokratie nach dem Ersten Weltkrieg
  Tim B. Müller and Adam Tooze, eds.
  Hamburger Editionen (2015)
• NATO: Past, Present, Future
  Ian Shapiro and Adam Tooze, eds.
  Yale University Press (under review)

Articles in Refereed Journals

• "The World Economy and the Great War", Geschichte und Gesellschaft 40:2 (2014), 214–38 (with Ted Fertik)
• "Machine tools and mass production in the armaments boom: Germany and the United States, 1929–44" Economic History Review 66 4 (2013), 953-974. (with Cristiano Ristuccia)
• "Reassessing the Moral Economy of Post-war Reconstruction: The Terms of the West German settlement in 1952" in Past and Present Special Issue 210 (suppl 6) (2011), 47-70.
• "Disciplining the Black Sheep of the Balkans. Sovereignty and Bulgarian Foreign Debt 1900-1939", Economic History Review 64 1 (2011), 30-51 (with M. Ivanov)
• "The Trouble with Numbers: Politics, history and economics in the construction of Weimar Trade Statistics" American Historical Review113 (3) (2008), 678-700.
• "Convergence or Decline on Europe's Southeastern Periphery? Agriculture, Population, and GNP in Bulgaria, 1892-1945" Journal of Economic History 67 (2007), 672 – 703 (with M. Ivanov)
• "No Room for Miracles. Reassessing industrial production in Nazi Germany, 1939-1945" Geschichte und Gesellschaft 31:3 (2005), 439–64.
• "Punktuelle Modernisierung: die Akkumulation von Werkzeugmaschinen im Dritten Reich" Jahrbuch fuer Wirtschaftsgeschichte 1 (2003), 79-98
• "Economic Statistics and the Weimar State: The Reich's Statistical Office and the Institute for Business-Cycle Research, 1924-1933." Economic History Review, LII, 3 (August 1999), 523-543