After leaving Cambridge in 2009, he spent six years at Yale University as Professor of Modern German History[6] and Director of International Security Studies at the MacMillan Center for International and Area Studies,[7] succeeding Paul Kennedy. Through his books (such as Crashed) and his online newsletter (Chartbook), he reaches a varied audience of historians, investors, administrators, and others.[8]
Tooze was born on 5 July 1967[9] to British parents who met at Cambridge. His maternal grandparents were the social researchers Arthur and Margaret Wynn, who together wrote a study of the financial connections of the Conservative Party establishment.[10] Arthur was also a civil servant and recruiter of Soviet spies at Oxford. Tooze's father was a molecular biologist who worked in Heidelberg, West Germany, where Tooze spent much of his childhood. He had an early interest in engineering and an aspiration to design engines for race cars. A precocious student, at secondary school he was permitted to teach a class on Keynesian modelling.[11]
In 2002 Tooze was awarded a Philip Leverhulme Prize for Modern History following the publication of his first book, Statistics and the German State, 1900–1945: The Making of Modern Economic Knowledge.[15] He first came to prominence for his economic study of the Third Reich, The Wages of Destruction, which was one of the winners of the 2006 Wolfson History Prize,[16] and a broad-based history of the First World War with The Deluge, published in 2014. He then widened his scope to study the financial crash of 2008 and its economic and geopolitical consequences with Crashed: How a Decade of Financial Crises Changed the World, published in 2018, for which he won the 2019 Lionel Gelber Prize.[17]
Tooze is a grandson of the British civil servant and Soviet spy, Arthur Wynn and his wife, Peggy Moxon. Tooze's 2006 book, The Wages of Destruction, is dedicated to them.[25]
Statistics and the German State, 1900–1945: The Making of Modern Economic Knowledge (Cambridge Studies in Modern Economic History), Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2001.[26]ISBN0-521-80318-7 Translated in German.
Crashed: How a Decade of Financial Crises Changed the World, London: Allen Lane and New York: Viking, August 2018.[29]ISBN9781846140365 Translated in German, French, Dutch, Italian, Spanish, Portuguese, Chinese, Russian and Greek.
Shutdown: How Covid Shook the World's Economy, Allen Lane, Sep 7 2021.[30]
As editor
Cambridge History of World War II. Volume 3 with Michael Geyer, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2015.[31]
Normalität und Fragilität: Demokratie nach dem Ersten Weltkrieg with Tim B. Müller,[32] Hamburg: Hamburger Editionen, 2015.[33]
Additional, ongoing series of original articles written on his website after the publication of Crashed, entitled Framing Crashed.[37]
"Whose century?", London Review of Books, vol. 42, no. 15 (30 July 2020), pp. 9–13. Tooze closes (p. 13): "Can [the US] fashion a domestic political bargain to enable the US to become what it currently is not: a competent and co-operative partner in the management of the collective risks of the Anthropocene. This is what the Green New Deal promised. After the shock of COVID-19 it is more urgent than ever."
^Mentioned in Crashed, Acknowledgments, pp. 9–10 "... debts I owe to two teachers ... Wynne Godley was a mentor and teacher of a very different kind. Spontaneously warm and generous in spirit, he took me under his cape in my first year at King’s and introduced me, and a group of my contemporaries, to what, at the time, was a highly idiosyncratic brand of economics."
^"Adam Tooze". Carnegie Endowment for International Peace. Retrieved 9 November 2022.
^Tooze, Adam (April 2016). "Adam Tooze's CV". Adam Tooze's personal website. Archived from the original on 15 February 2019. Retrieved 15 February 2019.
