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Adam Tooze is a columnist at Foreign Policy and a history professor and director of the European Institute at Columbia University. His latest book is Shutdown: How Covid Shook the World's Economy, and he is currently working on a history of the climate crisis.
Cameron Abadi is a deputy editor at Foreign Policy. He previously worked at the New Republic and Foreign Affairs and as a correspondent in Germany and Iran. His writing has appeared in Bloomberg Businessweek, the New Yorker, the New Republic, and Der Spiegel.
Editors: Cameron Abadi and Adam Tooze Lead producer: Laura Rosbrow-Telem
Managing editors: Dan Ephron and Rob Sachs Additional support from: Claudia Teti
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