Adam Tooze on a Short Economic History of the United States | Ones and Tooze Ep. 249

The Declaration of Independence, which founded the United States as an independent nation, was written in 1776—the same year that Adam Smith published The Wealth of Nations, the most prominent early treatise on international capitalism. Whether that represents a coincidence remains an ongoing debate. What’s clear, however, is that over the past two and a half centuries, the United States emerged as a slave economy, a free labor economy, a debtor nation, a creditor nation, and ultimately a powerful empire. Adam and Cameron discuss. 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 FP’s hit podcast, Tooze and FP deputy editor Cameron Abadi 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. ---------- Listen to more episodes of Ones and Tooze: https://foreignpolicy.com/podcasts/on... https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast... https://open.spotify.com/show/44pekaw... Follow Ones and Tooze: X - https://x.com/OnesandToozePod Follow Adam - https://x.com/adam_tooze Follow Cam - https://x.com/CameronAbadi Subscribe to all of Foreign Policy’s podcasts at https://foreignpolicy.com/podcasts/ or wherever you get your podcasts Visit http://foreignpolicy.com/ to read the latest global news and analysis from FP. Follow Foreign Policy: X -   / foreignpolicy   Instagram -   / foreignpolicymag   Facebook -   / foreign.policy.magazine   LinkedIn -   / foreign-policy-magazine   TikTok -   / foreignpolicymagazine