Tooze was born on 5 July 1967[9] to British parents who met atCambridge. His maternal grandparents were the social researchersArthur and Margaret Wynn, who together wrote a study of the financial connections of theConservative Party establishment.[10] Arthur was also a civil servant and recruiter of Soviet spies atOxford.Tooze's father was a molecular biologist who worked in Heidelberg,West Germany, where Tooze spent much of his childhood. He had an early interest in engineering and an aspiration to design engines for race cars. A precocious student, at secondary school he was permitted to teach a class onKeynesian modelling.[11]
In 2002 Tooze was awarded aPhilip Leverhulme Prize for Modern History following the publication of his first book,Statistics and the German State, 1900–1945: The Making of Modern Economic Knowledge.[15] He first came to prominence for his economic study of theThird Reich,The Wages of Destruction, which was one of the winners of the 2006Wolfson History Prize,[16] and a broad-based history of theFirst World War withThe Deluge, published in 2014. He then widened his scope to study the financial crash of 2008 and its economic and geopolitical consequences withCrashed: How a Decade of Financial Crises Changed the World, published in 2018, for which he won the 2019Lionel Gelber Prize.[17]
Since September 2021, Tooze hosts the podcast,Ones and Tooze, together with Cameron Abadi, a deputy editor atForeign Policy.[25] Episodes typically last 30-60 minutes and are published weekly on Fridays.
Tooze is a grandson of the British civil servant and Soviet spy,Arthur Wynn and his wife, Peggy Moxon. Tooze's 2006 book,The Wages of Destruction, is dedicated to them.[26]
Crashed: How a Decade of Financial Crises Changed the World, London: Allen Lane and New York: Viking, August 2018.[30]ISBN9781846140365 Translated in German, French, Dutch, Italian, Spanish, Portuguese, Chinese, Russian and Greek.
Shutdown: How Covid Shook the World's Economy, Allen Lane, Sep 7 2021.[31]
As editor
Cambridge History of World War II. Volume 3 withMichael Geyer, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2015.[32]
Normalität und Fragilität: Demokratie nach dem Ersten Weltkrieg with Tim B. Müller,[33] Hamburg: Hamburger Editionen, 2015.[34]
Additional, ongoing series of original articles written on his website after the publication ofCrashed, entitledFraming Crashed.[38]
"Whose century?",London Review of Books, vol. 42, no. 15 (30 July 2020), pp. 9–13. Tooze closes (p. 13): "Can [the US] fashion a domestic political bargain to enable the US to become what it currently is not: a competent and co-operative partner in the management of the collective risks of theAnthropocene. This is what theGreen New Deal promised. After the shock ofCOVID-19 it is more urgent than ever."
^Mentioned inCrashed, Acknowledgments, pp. 9–10 "... debts I owe to two teachers ... Wynne Godley was a mentor and teacher of a very different kind. Spontaneously warm and generous in spirit, he took me under his cape in my first year at King’s and introduced me, and a group of my contemporaries, to what, at the time, was a highly idiosyncratic brand of economics."
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