What Adam Tooze thinks about fiscal policy
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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1 dated position, 2026, in their own words. Our reading of what Adam Tooze has said — not written or endorsed by them.
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Our readingGermany's crisis is too deep to be solved by conventional tax, spending, or regulatory adjustments.
Their wordsGermany is in trouble. But the trouble goes deep and cannot be addressed by "more of the same" socio-economic measures in the domain of taxes or social spending or regulation.
↗Chartbook 474: The state is the problem - the AfD’s anti-systemic diagnosis of contemporary Germany. adamtooze.substack.com 2nd of 2 in this piece