Books by J. Adam Tooze

Arrived in my pile there is William D. Nordhaus, The Spirit of Green: The Economics of Collisions and Contagions in a Crowded World , and in September Adam Tooze is publishing Shutdown: How Covid Shook the World’s Economy , and also for September there is Gregg Easterbrook’s Blue Age: How the US Navy Created Global Prosperity — And Why We’re in Danger of Losing It .

Due out in August .

1. Adam Tooze, The Deluge: The Great War and the Remaking of World Order, 1916-1931 .  This one also starts slow but after about 13% becomes fascinating, especially about the internal politics in Germany and Russia, circa 1917-1918.