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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.

EU recovery package,Next Generation EU

Europe’s ‘long-Covid’ economic frailty

by Adam Tooze on 25th January 2021

Last year’s agreement on an EU recovery package was widely celebrated. This year its inadequacy will sink in.

EU recovery package,Next Generation EU

Light in the tunnel or oncoming train?

by Adam Tooze on 30th November 2020

Adam Tooze argues that the frail eurozone recovery hinges entirely on its guarantee by the European Central Bank.

EU recovery package,Next Generation EU

China takes the climate stage

by Adam Tooze on 19th October 2020

Adam Tooze assesses the significance of China’s goal-setting for climate neutrality.

EU recovery package,Next Generation EU

The politics of currencies

by Adam Tooze on 14th September 2020

Adam Tooze argues that worrying about the euro exchange rate and a non-existent inflation enemy in Europe must give way to fiscal and monetary demand boosts.

EU recovery package,Next Generation EU

Carbon pricing and the exit from fossil fuels

by Adam Tooze on 6th July 2020

Adam Tooze argues the European Green Deal and young Europeans’ activism are fostering a virtuous circle favouring more rapid decarbonisation.

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Time to expose the reality of ‘debt market discipline’

by Adam Tooze on 25th May 2020

As another sovereign-debt crisis looms, Adam Tooze warns against repeating the mistake of delegating to anonymised ‘markets’ accountable political choices.

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‘Corona bonds’ and Europe’s north-south divide

by Adam Tooze on 13th April 2020

The Eurogroup’s decision to reject corona bonds will leave destabilising political scars.

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Hard truths about the eurozone crisis

by Adam Tooze on 2nd March 2020

There has been little honest reflection within the European Commission about the eurozone crisis. Until now.

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The fierce urgency of COP26

by Adam Tooze on 20th January 2020

Adam Tooze stresses that the critical COP26 conference later this year hinges on European unity and radical leadership.

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The German impasse

by Adam Tooze on 12th November 2019

Adam Tooze dissects how the macroeconomic policy discourse is disabling necessary German, and European, steps forward.

EU recovery package,Next Generation EU

Grosse Koalition, small Klimapaket

by Adam Tooze on 30th September 2019

Much was expected of the new climate package negotiated by the grand-coalition government in Berlin. Less was delivered.

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The International Monetary Fund leadership is not a bargaining counter

by Adam Tooze on 22nd July 2019

Europe must get beyond seeing the head of the IMF as part of the spoils from Bretton Woods.

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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.

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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.

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What are central banks for?

by Adam Tooze on 18th March 2019

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 […]

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With a pandemic raging, for those countries most affected by Brexit the end of the transition could not come at a worse time. Yet, might the UK's withdrawal be a blessing in disguise? With its biggest veto player gone, might the European Pillar of Social Rights take centre stage? This book brings together leading experts in European politics and policy to examine social citizenship rights across the European continent in the wake of Brexit. Will member states see an enhanced social Europe or a race to the bottom?

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