Foreign Policy economics columnist Adam Tooze, a history professor and a popular author, is encyclopedic about basically everything: from the COVID shutdown, to...
In this first episode of 2025—and the first one recorded since Adam's heart surgery—Cameron and Adam discuss a conceptual ecological framework called The Planetary.
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Heterodox Economists, Part 3: Hyman Minsky
This is the third and final episode in a miniseries on heterodox economists—people who embrace completely different approaches to economics than those of the standard thinkers.
Adam and Cameron discuss Hyman Minsky, an American economist who wrote widely on financial crises but whose work received broad attention only around the collapse of 2008—more than a decade after his death.
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Introducing: Season 7 of The Hidden Economics of Remarkable Women
Cameron and Adam are taking time off for the holiday. But don't despair! Instead of Ones and Tooze, you can listen to a recent episode of another Foreign Policy podcast: The Hidden Economics of Remarkable Women (HERO). The show examines economic challenges facing women around the world but especially in developing countries of Africa. Ones and Tooze will be back next week.
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Heterodox Economists, Part 2: Joan Robinson
This is the second episode in a miniseries on heterodox economists—people who embrace completely different approaches to economics than the standard thinkers. Adam and Cameron describe the life and work of Joan Robinson, who worked with John Maynard Keynes on his hugely influential macroeconomics book The General Theory of Employment, Interest, and Money—but came to regard Keynesianism as a failed revolution.
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Heterodox Economists, Part 1: Michal Kalecki
This is the first episode in a miniseries on heterodox economists—people who embrace completely different approaches to economics than the standard thinkers. Adam and Cameron begin with Michal Kalecki, a Polish economist born in the late 19th century who believed that capitalism was not the solution to the human condition but the problem itself.
Listen until the end to hear Adam’s message from the ICU after his open-heart surgery.
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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/.