Ones and Tooze Foreign Policy
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Foreign Policy economics columnist Adam Tooze, a history professor and a popular author, is encyclopedic about basically everything: from the COVID shutdown, to climate change, to pasta sauce. On our new podcast, Tooze and FP deputy editor Cameron Abadi will look at two data points each week that explain the world: one drawn from the week’s headlines and the other from just about anywhere else Tooze takes us. Check out Adam Tooze’s column at https://foreignpolicy.com/author/adam-tooze/.
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COVID-19’s Long Shadow, Part 4
This is the fourth installment of a mini series on the long shadow of COVID-19, marking four years since the start of the coronavirus. In this final segment, Adam and Cameron discuss whether the world is now better equipped to respond to similar crises.
Also on the show: The economics of resort hotels.
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COVID-19’s Long Shadow, Part 3
To mark four years since the start of the COVID-19 pandemic, Adam and Cameron are talking about the long shadow of the coronavirus. In Part 3, they look at how the pandemic affected the global economy.
Also on the show: China's economy is facing a major rebalancing. Can it keep rising?
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COVID-19’s Long Shadow, Part 2
To mark four years since the start of the COVID-19 pandemic, Adam and Cameron are talking about the long shadow of the coronavirus. In Part 2, they look at the economic impact of long COVID—which afflicts about 10 percent of people who contract the coronavirus.
Also on the show, coinciding with the night of the Oscars: The economics of Oppenheimer’s Manhattan Project—the U.S. endeavor to build the first nuclear bomb.
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COVID-19’s Long Shadow
To mark four years since the start of the COVID-19 pandemic, Adam and Cameron are launching a miniseries: four episodes on the long shadow of the coronavirus. In Part 1, they look at its impact on the commercial real estate market.
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The Age of American Gerontocracy
The United States’ top leaders are older than ever. Is capitalism inherently gerontocratic? Do older leaders govern better or worse historically? And could a leader’s advanced age sap economic confidence and have a pocketbook effect? Adam and Cameron dig in.
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Indonesia's Presidential Election
Prabowo Subianto is on track to win the presidential election in Indonesia, raising concerns about a backslide towards authoritarianism in the world's third largest democracy. Adam and Cameron discuss the political and economic implications.
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Customer Reviews
Adam is a smart cookie
Probably my favorite liberal econ or politics pod. Adam is brilliant and eloquent on a huge variety of topics, and intellectual renaissance man. Credit to FP for sponsoring such a proudly Keynesian project, though I do find the Amazon Ring ads problematic (that is a malevolent product).
Great conversations, often lacking self-awareness
I am a devotee of this pod - AND. I understand and appreciate Adam’s skepticism of US global power projection, but this often drives him to unquestioningly accept revisionist counterpositions that service a worldview that he would ultimately reject. Like those of the Houthis (who have been chomping at the bit to get in on anti-Israel activities for years) and China.
I often encounter this arrogance among Brits and Europeans who have a deep resentment of US power, though they are completely dependent on it. It’s an emotional, irrational position, and often pops up in this otherwise delightful podcast.
Lost Me After The Red Sea Episode
While typically a very helpful and informative podcast, Adam Tooze didn’t bring his usual rigor to the recent episode on the Red Sea. Instead, he was more interested in turning the Houthis into a sympathetic character of anti imperial resistance in service of his broader point on American or western power.
One can acknowledge the complicated, nuanced and often unsavory reality of US influence in the Middle East while not blindly accepting the political rhetoric of a brutal, cruel group like the Houthis. As someone that has enjoyed all of Tooze’s written work and listened to Ones and Tooze for years now, this came across as unprofessional and unfortunate.