What Adam Tooze thinks about America
Economic historian, Kathryn and Shelby Cullom Davis Professor of History at Columbia University, and author of Wages of Destruction, Crashed and Shutdown. Writes the Chartbook newsletter.
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3 dated positions, 2026, in their own words. Our reading of what Adam Tooze has said — not written or endorsed by them.
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Our readingThe second China shock is landing on Europe, where the first one landed on the United States.
Their wordsIn China shock 1.0 the key target was the US. In China shock 2.0 it is Europe.
↗Chartbook 462: China shocked - beyond 1.0 and 2.0 to the "Big One".adamtooze.substack.com 1st of 5 in this piece
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Their wordsThe original point of the China Shock 1.0 discourse was not to foreground the unfairness of Chiense competition, so much as the malfunctioning of US policy and societal institutions in the face of concentrated globalization shocks.
↗Chartbook 462: China shocked - beyond 1.0 and 2.0 to the "Big One".adamtooze.substack.com 2nd of 5 in this piece
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Their wordsChina shock 2.0 threatens high status manufactured goods: European cars and engineering.
↗Chartbook 462: China shocked - beyond 1.0 and 2.0 to the "Big One".adamtooze.substack.com 3rd of 5 in this piece