ADAM TOOZE

Global copper prices currently reflect China’s demand. Well off peaks. But Green energy transition requires electrification -> massive surge in copper demand that will require

Minus 0.0005%: In September 2020 the UK was selling 6-month Treasury bills at negative yields for first time. @business via @SoberLook bloomberg.com/news/articles/… https://t.co/iEC3gfkUhm

That dude is being lowered down that shaft: Opal mining in Australia is a hands on business! passportandpixels.com/digging-opals-… https://t.co/7EbJYAbkIC

Right now it is less useful to be speculating about end of $ hegemony than it is to figure out how patchwork of new central

Considering its enduring size and obvious importance, the construction industry is one of the industries for which we lack a large in-depth historical literature. Was

RT @SCMPNews: A huge chunk of ice – nearly twice the size of Manhattan – has broken off the Arctic's largest remaining ice shelf https://t.…

In July 63% of Eurozone CPI components were declining MoM. thedailyshot.com/2020/09/14/res… https://t.co/cCd9COrvfn

At height of lockdown, Indian industrial production was down 57%. @SoberLook thedailyshot.com/2020/09/14/res… https://t.co/oCUKmZR7bc

RT @maxinefowe: Following Covid-19, the global economy is likely to be faced with #deflation rather than #inflation. A problem that calls f…

RT @RajaKorman: @adam_tooze Re: more recent controversies—In some ways France’s fiscal & c/a behavior and the size of its GSIBs suggests it…

RT @TheEconomist: If schools in Latin America stay closed for seven months from March this year, and governments fail to compensate, lifeti…

@AlanSmithee1987 They should seek solace in reading folks to the left of center. Much less candy coating there!

With no one working from the office, prices of mens suits are plunging in the US. @SoberLook https://t.co/zKOzlHV6bQ

RT @LuShultz: @adam_tooze "In the short period b/w 1848 and 1875, the world was conquered by a relatively small army composed not of soldie…

RT @GretchenTG: Just so I'm being honest. #SciMomJourneys https://t.co/4yZMKtVxwP

RT @RajaKorman: @adam_tooze The piece retweeted above contains this amazing chart. https://t.co/bRVWTVmm02

RT @tedfertik: This one really made me do a double take. It is not every day that the Peterson Institute shows up on my feed

RT @global_thoughts: “The US is an increasingly anxious, prickly and incoherent hegemon,” writes CGT Member @adam_tooze in a recent piece r…

2020 is going to be be highly significant not just with regard to China v US but China v India as well. @OECD graphic caricatures

Eric Hobsbawm made 1st public appearance at major academic event in 1950 at Intl Congress of Historical Sciences in Paris. He denounced Colin Clark’s work

@MacaesBruno And as practioner(s) of that craft it raises questions for all of us 😉

Arriving in 1933 as an orphaned migrant, Hobsbawm acquired “a large and vulgar patriotism for England, which he considered in weak moments as his spiritual

RT @MacroPru: Exchange Rates and Domestic Credit—Can #Macroprudential Policy Reduce the Link? @IMFNews imf.org/en/Publication… https://t.co…

@MacaesBruno I think it is a document of its moment. As such, I actually recommend it. I meant the line about the mirror seriously.

Do we have a map? Reading Daniel Yergin’s latest left me feeling somewhat introspective about the possibilities of “grand narrative” in the current moment. I

In the Opal Fields of Australia, the line between Mad Max (left) and actual industrial relics (right) is pretty thin! passportandpixels.com/digging-opals-… https://t.co/r0mJiodDlR

Historians could usefully borrow vocabulary from mining: Fossicking = searching for gold for non-commercial purposes in abandoned workings Noodling: sifting through rejected mullock heaps for

Avian Reservoirs: Virus Hunters and Birdwatchers in Chinese Sentinel Posts (Experimental Futures) Frederick Keck Looking forward to reading this!!!!! amazon.com/gp/product/147… https://t.co/fNjMQZOT2y

Historians could usefully borrow vocabulary from mining: Fossicking = searching for gold for non-commercial purposes in abandoned workings Noddling: sifting through rejected mullock heaps for

RT @GaraviniG: @adam_tooze on Daniel Yergin's latest energy book: "The result is a history without a center". Hard to write coherently in…

RT @Columbia_MF: « Crise » : tel est donc le nom généralement admis pour ce que nous sommes en train de vivre… Join @etiennebalibar ,

In August 2020 consumption in China finally inched above 2019 levels. Strong growth for smartphones, cosmetics, cars! bloomberg.com/news/articles/… https://t.co/ET8WoHoFuD

"a cluey reader fossicking through the details of Avian reservoirs” I just learned two new words in a single sentence! Cluey – obvious, but new

In 1826, amidst turmoil of early industrial revolution in Britain, the theologian and economist Thomas Chalmers recommended political economy as ‘a sedative to all sorts

Grand historical narratives were an important strand in braid of "actually existing neoliberalism”. No storyteller was more important than Daniel Yergin (The Prize, Commanding Heights).