April 29, 2021· 53 min

What Adam Tooze Learned About the World Last Year

Orality
Model
50%

Speaker Breakdown

HostJoe Weisenthal(1,975 words)
M:93%
HostTracy Alloway(1,044 words)
M:28%
GuestAdam Tooze(6,707 words)
M:28%

Oral Indicators

Agonistic42%
literally, completely, obviously
Engagement68%
you, our, your
Memory Aids100%
listen, now, like
Repetition100%
know (140x), it's (92x), think (88x)
Parallelism95%
And I'm Tracy Alloway...., So I feel like it's kinda time..., And I think the consensus back...
Sound Patterns41%
43 question(s), alliteration: "markets move", alliteration: "barclays brief"
Formulaic Phrases4%
the fact of the matter, i mean

Literate Indicators

Hedging8%
probably, perhaps, could
Passive Voice7%
was compressed, being tested, were involved
Abstract Nouns25%
investment, recommendation, business
Subordination7%
since, because, though
Sentence Length57%
Avg: 19.1 words/sentence
Word Complexity49%
investment, analyze, anticipate
Academic Markers0%
Impersonal Style32%
712 personal pronouns found
Descriptive Style100%
literally, completely, obviously

Description

There's probably nobody better at synthesizing massive events like Columbia professor Adam Tooze. His book Crashed, which came out in 2018, was probably the definitive take on the Great Financial Crisis. Later this year he has another book coming out on the Coronavirus crisis, and the political and economic lessons therein. On this Odd Lots, we speak with him about the extraordinary year, what it's meant for the U.S., China, Europe, etc., and the change in the economic landscape. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.