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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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What's Wrong With Tesla?
Elon Musk's car company Tesla is in trouble. Its share price has plunged since the start of the year and the company has laid off thousands of employees. Adam and Cameron dig into the problems at Tesla and the reasons electric car companies in China are doing better.
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The Columbia Protests and the Economics of Divestment
With students at Columbia and other universities across the country demanding that their schools divest from Israel over the war in Gaza, Adam and Cameron discuss the economic angle: endowments, investments, and billionaire donors.
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The Speculative Economics Rising From the Film ‘Civil War’
The new film Civil War, which follows a group of journalists making their way across a swath of fractured and war-torn America, is a box-office hit. It’s also an opportunity for Adam and Cameron to speculate on the economic implications of a real civil war in the United States.
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Live From DC
This episode features a live taping Adam and Cameron did at the John Hopkins School of Advanced International Studies in Washington, DC—covering the possible impact of a wider war in the Middle East and the economics of a future Biden or Trump administration.
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Famine in Gaza
As the Israel-Hamas war drags on, about half of the Palestinians in Gaza are on the brink of famine, and the other half are experiencing acute food insecurity. Adam and Cameron discuss how humanitarian aid works in a crisis zone and what it would take to rebuild Gaza.
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The Economics of a Bridge Disaster
It will cost up to $3 billion to replace the Francis Scott Key Bridge in the U.S. city of Baltimore, Maryland, which collapsed last month after it was struck by a container ship. Adam and Cameron discuss the implications for the city of Baltimore, the insurance industry, and global shipping.
Also on the show: The economics of Tajikistan.
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).
Adam has biases
Enjoy the economic and historic topics, not much his politics. It’s so obvious that he has pet peeves. But it gets worse when his biases lead him to pick and choose which facts to present to his readers and listeners. One example is his view on Columbia student protest. In this podcast, he criticizes Columbia and police for citing safety reasons, yet omitting the major escalation where protestors entering and occupying an academic building (where he taught a class earlier that day, per his newsletter).
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.