Adam Tooze
Historian and Columbia professor
Adam Tooze is a historian who teaches at Columbia University in New York. He is best known for The Wages of Destruction, a study of the Third Reich's economy.
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British Born 1967 in London, United Kingdom
About Adam Tooze
Adam Tooze is a professor at Columbia University and directs its European Institute. He studied economics at King's College, Cambridge, graduating in 1989, then studied in Berlin before earning a doctorate in economic history at the London School of Economics. He later taught at the University of Cambridge, and after leaving in 2009 he spent six years at Yale University. In 2002 he received a Philip Leverhulme Prize for Modern History. The Wages of Destruction was among the Wolfson History Prize winners in 2006. Tooze has also written Crashed and runs an online newsletter called Chartbook.