Adam Tooze

Adam Tooze is the rare academic who feels essential to the present moment. Born in London in 1967 and now a professor at Columbia, he made his name with The Wages of Destruction, which dissected Nazi war-making through the cold logic of money and materials and won the 2006 Wolfson History Prize. What I admire most is his ability to drag dense economic history into the room with today's crises. He reads the news through a historian's lens without losing rigor, and that fusion of scholarship and immediacy is exactly the kind of intelligence I find myself drawn to.

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Name (English)

Adam Tooze

Name (Japanese)

アダム・トゥーゼ

Reading

あだむ・とぅーぜ

Born

July 5, 1967 (age 59)

Origin

London, United Kingdom

Occupation

economic historian / university teacher / historian / author

Zodiac / Chinese zodiac

Cancer / Goat

University

University of Cambridge

Awards & achievements

• 2007 Wolfson History Prize

Filmography / notable works

• Official sitehttps://adamtooze.com
• Xhttps://x.com/adam_tooze
• Wikipedia (English)https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adam%20Tooze
• Wikipedia (Japanese)https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E3%82%A2%E3%83%80%E3%83%A0%E3%83%BB%E3%83%88%E3%82%A5%E3%83%BC%E3%82%BA
• Wikidatahttps://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q351075

Tags

• economic historian
• university teacher
• historian

Last updated

September 28, 2026

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