Special: Adam Tooze on Inflation and the Cost-of-Living Crisis
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🗓️ 14 October 2022
⏱️ 50 minutes
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On the occasion of Jacobin's "Inflation" issue release party, Samir Sonti interviewed historian Adam Tooze at the Mayday Space in Brooklyn. This is audio from that recent live conversation. Samir and Adam discuss the causes, threats, and nuances of inflation, as well as ways to combat the cost-of-living crisis in such a way that puts the needs of people before capital.
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| 0:00.0 | Hello everyone, thanks for coming out to our issue release party. My name is Micah |
| 0:09.2 | U-Trick. I'm an editor here at Jacobin. I'm very glad to have a full house of folks |
| 0:15.1 | here at the Mayday Space. So our new issue, which is the reason we're gathered here, is |
| 0:20.8 | on inflation. So I'm going to introduce Samir Santi. Samir has a lead editorial in the new |
| 0:27.0 | issue of Jacobin as well as, yeah, as well as him being an assistant professor at the CUNY |
| 0:38.3 | School of Labor and Urban Studies and is working on a book on inflation. And I will let him |
| 0:46.0 | introduce Adam. So thanks so much. Thanks Micah. Thanks everyone. And it's good to see so many |
| 0:56.2 | people here today in spite of the weather. It was a little worried about that. But better than |
| 1:00.7 | the past few days, I guess. Well, anyway, I'm super excited to be here with Adam Toos, who is, |
| 1:07.8 | as I'm sure many of you know, I believe it's the Shelby Column Davis professor of history at |
| 1:13.7 | Columbia and the director of the Institute for European Studies, the European Institute, as well |
| 1:21.8 | as the author of a number of books that are really must reads, I think, to understand the world we |
| 1:27.2 | live in. Most recently, and I don't have the after the colon's off the top of my head, but shut down, |
| 1:32.4 | which is about the sort of the political economy of the pandemic crashed. I think probably the definitive |
| 1:38.8 | study of the 2008 crisis and it's sort of aftershocks that got us to just before the pandemic, |
| 1:45.6 | and a terrific book, maybe the best book that I've ever read on World War One, The Deluge, |
| 1:51.8 | as well as a couple classic books on German political economy. The sort of, I mean, one after |
| 1:59.6 | another, like the definitive, the definitive, the definitive, which is maybe a little bit gassing |
| 2:03.3 | out of them up too much for this, but the definitive book on the the political economy of the |
| 2:07.8 | third Reich and then a very underrated book on statistics and the German state in the interwar period, |
| 2:15.4 | which I believe was his first. So with all that said, Adam, I'm super excited to talk to you. |
| 2:20.1 | Thanks so much for being here. The issue that we're here to talk about is called inflation, so the |
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