Episode · Conversations with Tyler · 2020-05-06
Tyler Cowen & Adam Tooze: books mentioned on Conversations with Tyler
Adam Tooze on our Financial Past and Future
Adam Tooze is best known for his highly-regarded books on the economic history of Nazi Germany, the remaking of the global economic and political order starting in World War I, and his account of how the economic effects of the 2008 financial crisis rippled across the globe for a decade to follow.
Adam Tooze criticized The Economic Consequences of the Peace by John Maynard Keynes. Tyler Cowen discussed The Wages of Destruction by J. Adam Tooze.
Books mentioned, in the order they came up
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The Economic Consequences of the Peace
The Economic Consequences of the Peace by John Maynard Keynes is a foundational 1919 text that critiques the punitive reparations imposed on Germany by the Treaty of Versailles and warns of the disastrous economic repercussions for Europe.
Critiqued“I regard the economic consequences of the peace as a disastrous book. Um, because it essentially um, it enhanced the and gave arguments to the German nationalists”
Where to get it
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The Wages of Destruction
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Discussed“Robert Gordon in his review of your book Wages of Destruction argues that you've underestimated German prosperity in the 1930s.”
Where to get it
Other mentions in this episode (4) — ad reads, self-promotion and passing references, never counted
“I say if you want if you want a one-line answer, it's it's the Weimar Republic's survival is dependent, you know, the certainly the argument I would make in in deluge, the distinctive argument that I'm making is it it it does depend critically on the ability of the United States”
“And what Wages of Destruction was trying to do is to say, "Okay, let's write a history of the Third Reich on against the backdrop of assuming that this makes a difference.”
“So what what Wages of Destruction was doing was trying to unpick those anachronistic assumptions about the obvious dominance of the German economy”
“Yeah, I I'm I'm a revisionist on World War I as is clear from Deluge, I think.”