Adam Tooze

Crashed by Adam Tooze is an incisive and comprehensive analysis of the events and aftermath of the Great Financial Crisis of 2008. A profound piece of economic history that stretches beyond the collapse of Lehman Brothers, this book examines how the reverberations of the crisis continue to impact our world today. Tooze provides readers with a meticulous breakdown of the...

The Deluge by Adam Tooze provides a sweeping, meticulously researched history that brings to life the transformative period following the First World War. Spanning from the brutal battles of the Western Front in 1916 to the devastating economic collapse of the Great Depression in the 1930s, Tooze's narrative masterfully navigates the seismic shifts in power and society that reshaped the...

From the author of Crashed comes a short, high-speed history of how Covid-19 ravaged the global economy, and where it leaves us now. When the news first emerged from China about a new virus in December 2019, risk-averse financial markets were alert to its potential for disruption. Yet they could never have predicted the total economic collapse that would follow...