ADAM TOOZE

RT @LaetitiaLenel: Aby Warburgs Bilderatlas Mnemosyne im @HKW_Berlin zu sehen, ist bewegend und anregend. Seine Suche nach nicht-linearen D…

RT @MarcDavenant: Senior citizen in condemned slum housing, Birmingham in 1971 by Nick Hedges. One of his five themes for this series was ‘…

RT @MarcDavenant: Glasgow in 1970 by Nick Hedges. “Mr and Mrs G lived with their 4 children in a ground floor tenement flat. Their bedroom…

Paranoia around Bill Gates is grotesque and defamatory. But his foundation does have outsized influence on global public health agenda. Challenge is to transform QAnon-style

RT @rupert_russell: "We imagined that an effective inoculation would be a cause of celebration. It may turn out to be a symbol of global in…

@IPE_thoughts @SDullien @GustavAHorn @socialeurope @AchimTruger @mischrodi @CanselK @NowaboFM @MartinGreive Well, in the piece, I am actually talking about Southern Europe!

The stakes are now clear: to create a political economy fit for the demands of the anthropocenic era to come. An effort to make sense

RT @dpnolan: @adam_tooze @ForeignPolicy @EdwardGLuce @tedfertik That’s a really great article. The analysis of the role played by the Gates…

Afrobeat: Immigrants from sub-Saharan Africa in USA shot from 265,000 in 1990 to 2m in 2018 (375,000 Nigerians). 2001-2011 African-born population of England/Wales: 800,000 to

@WillemKadijk @nytimes @TheEconomist I actually did.

A while back I did an essay about U. Beck’s concept of “risk society”. In this new piece for @ForeignPolicy I analyze the vaccine race

Striking and pleasing parallels btw these reviews of Yergin’s The New Map One in @nytimes other (anonymous) in @TheEconomist Delighted that references to “The Climate

The World Is Winning—and Losing—the Vaccine Race Immunization to COVID-19 is supposed to solve our problems—but may trigger even bigger ones. A NEW piece for

Propagandizing for phosphate fertilizers in 1940s Tennessee: Global Fertiliser use has more than quadrupled since the 1970s and will continue rising as the population expands.

The pandemic has shone a harsh light on China’s threadbare social safety-net. During the depths of China’s lockdown, just 3% of the roughly 80m people

@Ben_Davison1 Hang on … we must be at cross purposes. Agree: German system works. Market income inequality is slightly worse in Germany. The tax system

Furniture seats made in 1778 by Georges Jacob (master in 1765) and Jean Baptiste Rode (1735-1799) for the Comte d’Artois (1757-1836) in Louis Seize style.

This week Hong Kong’s monetary authority was battling to preserve its peg v. $. Was it fighting off belligerent Americans? Speculators who had pledge to

RT @CKemfert: Es ist ein ein bemerkenswertes Buch zu dem dringend notwendigen Wandel der Wirtschaftswissenschaften erschienen, herausgegebe…

How would Joe Biden change America’s trade policy? Less than America’s trade partners might hope. Promotes “made in America”. Pushing industrial policy. Taking strong line

RT @MaxCRoser: In countries that achieved strong economic growth over the last decades, governments have vastly larger budgets. In the poo…

The gender gap in admission to higher education in the UK is remarkable: 40% of 18 year old women v. 30% of young men. And

This podcast on global political economy, history – Wages/Nazi Germany, Carl Schmitt, Kellogg-Briand – China was really fun. With @jordanschnyc @M_C_Klein link.chtbl.com/03A8u0lz https://t.co/9eks6GbMYI

One medium- long-term thing to worry about is investment under COVID-uncertainty. It is not looking good! economist.com/finance-and-ec… Reminded me of this piece from back in

Wildfires, hurricanes and vanishing sea ice: the climate crisis is here Scientists warn extreme, weather-related events around the world show the economic and social costs

Worst day for global economy during covid-19 pandemic was Good Friday. On April 10th lockdowns were at their most severe crushing activity. Global gdp that

After a year of drought, world’s largest tropical wetland, Brazil’s Pantanal, has been burning for week. Largest fire since records began. Blackened, starving jaguars wander

Scaled to 2019 GDP, America’s 1960s moonshot cost $702.3 bn = c. same as initial cost of F35 program, order of magnitude larger than corona

RT @simongerman600: This World #History Timeline shows the main superpowers and dynasties over the last 5000 years. Gorgeous piece of work.…

This was a really enjoyable conversation with @jordanschnyc and @M_C_Klein about history, the rise of China, Wages and Deluge. twitter.com/jordanschnyc/s…

RT @LAReviewofBooks: Yes, we do! —> @LARBchina

RT @GustavAHorn: Europes main problem is lack of demand, says @adam_tooze on @socialeurope . Therefor a fiscal boost is recommended. .https…

Gotta love the fact that @LAReviewofBooks has a “China channel”. chinachannel.org https://t.co/puEGyWFVkC

Based on huge amount of orders the received for masks printed with the words “Black Lives Matter”, Yiwu vendors knew that protests were significant –

November 1944, Lungling, Yunnan — After the Chinese Expeditionary Y-Force drove the Japanese out of the occupied Lungling, American and Chinese soldiers, guided by their