About Adam Tooze

Adam Tooze is professor of history at Columbia University and author of Crashed: How a Decade of Financial Crises Changed the World.

Europe’s coal problem

by Adam Tooze on 10th June 2019

The eurozone muddled through its crisis at Germany’s behest. The climate emergency is much too serious for that.

Output gap nonsense

by Adam Tooze on 30th April 2019

Adam Tooze explains how a false exactitude in economics has led to a terrible politics in the EU.

The eurozone remains mired in unemployment while the European Central Bank targets only inflation. Adam Tooze begins a series of Social Europe columns by explaining the hidden history of the Fed’s more successful dual mandate. In January 2013 the US Federal Reserve made a remarkable statement. It announced that it would ramp up its monetary […]

Time for substantial minimum wage rises and a European minimum wage policy

Minimum wages in most European Union (EU) countries were increased at the start of 2019, with an median increase of 4.8 % compared with the previous year, continuing the recent trends towards faster minimum wage growth. Much of this is accounted for by substantial increases in Eastern Europe together with efforts to undertake permanent and structural increases in minimum wage levels in countries such as Spain. There is also a growing debate over the role of minimum wages for the concept of Social Europe, which is expected to play a significant role in the 2019 European Parliament elections. In this context, the German government has indicated that one of its priorities during its EU Council Presidency in the second half of 2020 will be elaborating a framework for a European minimum wage policy.

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The platform economy and social law: Key issues in comparative perspective

This Working Paper brings together two parallel but complementary approaches to the impact of the platform economy on working conditions and social law. The first part of the study shows that the business models of some platforms is a combination of technological disruption and social evasion. The second part of this working paper confirms that it is in the gaps and ambiguities in social legislation that platforms are trying to legitimise a business model abrogating all social responsibility. It is in this sense that we can talk about the risk of “social evasion” of several major platforms, exactly in the same way as fiscal evasion.

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Living and working in Europe 2015-2018

Living and working in Europe 2015–2018 brings together some of Eurofound’s main research findings on the living and working conditions of people in Europe over the last four years, during the term of the outgoing European Parliament and Commission. This work has answered key questions about aspects of life and work that matter keenly to people and policymakers alike, highlighting where policymaking needs to be targeted if it is to deliver for citizens. View the interactive page and download the report.

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Zygmunt Bauman was a towering intellectual who saw and analysed – right up to his death in early 2017 – the great socio-political changes, often convulsive, in modern western society long before his peers. Here we highlight his prescient insights into what he dubbed ‘liquid modernity’ with 24 chapters on topics ranging from online loneliness via precarity/poverty/inequality to migration, fear of the ‘Other’ and the decline of the nation state. Chronicle of Crisis, 2011-16, written by one of the great chroniclers of our times, will be read and re-read for decades and more to come.

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What are central banks for?

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