Adam Tooze

Adam Tooze is the Barton M. Biggs Professor of History and codirector of International Security Studies at Yale University. He won the 2002 Philip Leverhulme Prize for Modern History. His groundbreaking work The Wages of Destruction: The Making and Breaking of the Nazi Economy won the Wolfson Prize and the Longman Prize, was shortlisted for the Duff Cooper and H Soz Kult prizes, was an Economist book of the year, and has been translated into German, Italian, Portuguese, and Bulgarian. For thirteen years he was a member of the history faculty at the University of Cambridge. In 2009, he was appointed to the academic panel charged by the Bundesfinanzministerum (Federal Finance Ministry) with writing the ministry's history in the period of the Third Reich. He has responsibility for the volume dealing with public debt.