Economics
Adam Tooze: Haiti 2022 – Polycrisis extreme
In Haiti, millions of people are currently starving to death and Cholera is spreading rapidly. Read the article HERE.
Adam Tooze
Economics
Adam Tooze – Warfare without the state – New Keynesian shock therapy for Ukraine’s home front
When is MIT-style New Keynesianism not just NON Keynesian but ANTI Keynesian? When it recommends (along with sensible macro stabilization) radical, pro-business micropolicy to a country engaged in an existential fight for survival. Read Here
Economics
Adam Tooze: Recession risk in a world in the grip of the global dollar cycle
Interest rates are rising like never before, and it’s the world’s poorest who will suffer most. Read the article HERE.
EU politics
Adam Tooze: Who is going to vote for Italy’s right-wing coalition?
A breakdown of the demographics of Italians’ electoral preferences before Sunday’s election. Read the article HERE.
Inequality
Adam Tooze: Life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness? How China, Cuba and Albania came to have higher life expectancy than the USA
This one is a week old but the statistics it contains are truly stunning and worth your time. Read the article here.
Globalisation
Adam Tooze: Defining polycrisis – from crisis pictures to the crisis matrix
This is one way of looking at the precarious state of the world. Read here
Austerity
Shutdown – How Covid Shook the World Economy by Adam Tooze
Book Review by Michael Roberts Adam Tooze has a new book out, Shutdown. Tooze is the liberal left’s current favourite historian. His previous book, The Wages of Destruction, won the Wolfson Prize for History and […]
Austerity
Adam Tooze: The Gatekeeper
Rearrangements of the relationship between economic expertise and politics in the Democratic Party in the US, which Tooze puts in context by tracing Paul Krugman’s intellectual trajectory over recent decades. Read here
Economics
Mark Blyth, Adam Tooze – A Crisis Like No Other
Professor Mark Blyth and Professor Adam Tooze explore how coronavirus is laying bare the hidden risks embedded within our financial systems and how central banks worldwide are scrambling to paper over those chasms of danger. […]
Economics
Adam Tooze: The Death of the Central Bank Myth
For decades, monetary policy has been treated as technical, not political. The pandemic has ended that illusion forever. Read here