ADAM TOOZE

Amazon’s workers are being treated like “fungible units of pick-and-pack potential,” said Tim Bray, a senior Amazon… https://t.co/L7CS1Ti4Jt

"America’s premature reopening makes a travesty of the idea that the pathogen is a great leveller. The US entered t… https://t.co/kEFTYkyZ98

One of the truly strange assumptions behind much German commentary on the constitutional court decision is that the… https://t.co/BarT7VoLO3

If you can follow, Voßkuhle’s delivery of ECB judgement of German Supreme Court is worth listening too. He combines… https://t.co/Mn2YuO04hM

As the unemployment rate surges in the US and the state-based insurance system reaches its limit -> Federal spendin… https://t.co/dJZFWGc8xT

The lockdown in California and New York & East Coast -> job losses in 2020 crisis are concentrated in v large metro… https://t.co/cbpaNKk72F

Poland contained the impact of COVID-19 but not the economic damage. Too exposed to the European economy and to the… https://t.co/SHSgB6jDGW

Actually seriously what do sites like khan academy teach? https://t.co/KXvaJerPeS

It would be fantastic if @DanielaGabor could do an instructional video on money …. in German!!!!!!! https://t.co/KXvaJerPeS

Thank you @davidchungpark Nice to see the video. I think the look on my face conveys better than anything the plea… https://t.co/NQEjJihcKe

When we imagined financial crises of the anthropocene as “climate Minsky moments” the driver of the crisis was the… https://t.co/zopijPWvvt

It is such a simple thought. We anticipated it with talk of "stranded assets" & "climate Minsky moments". Instead i… https://t.co/t2NOvdYgeu

VE Day is celebrated in Russia on 9th May but this is worth circulating anyway. https://t.co/CirYoGcXUS

@_John_Handel Alternative to tattooing: require all historians to write at least one "contemporary history”, prefer… https://t.co/Jc2eUWcG3q

Have only read @ecourtem’s essay so far but it is terrific: “Every form of historicism entails a reflected construc… https://t.co/MTk4gIMLiv

These folks are so invisible and yet they are the ones who run the knowledge infrastructure that allows macroeconom… https://t.co/lQ1WmWQw7T

Meet Julie Hatch Maxfield, associate commissioner for employment and unemployment statistics at the US BLS who over… https://t.co/uBZJO8bqx1

Central bank/commercial bank ownership of public debt tends to be associated either with Japan or crisis-driven mon… https://t.co/vyyPzK6gKT

Has there ever been a meeting of minds btw Hermann Mark Schwartz and @Brad_Setser ? e.g. on basis of the essay Amer… https://t.co/9jqrDQbWz0

It takes thousands of workers to put together the jobs report: data collectors who make phone calls, BLS statistici… https://t.co/EDutikKGGk

@adam_tooze "The remarkable thing about Covid-19 is that it brings the risks of the Anthropocene home to each and e… https://t.co/7mBLlUj1LH

Enjoyed @tylercowen's wide-ranging conversation with @adam_tooze. F-fwd to 59mins to hear about his fascinatingly u… https://t.co/6bYD8Nkgta

Conspiracy theories are a genre of science fiction in which most organizations are secretly run by competent people pursuing definite goals.

Of everything that I have read thus far on the unfolding socio-political implications of Covid-19, this by… https://t.co/HMhZQTLLC3

This is quite an extraordinary resource from @syllabus_tweets: a searchable archive of commentary and analysis on t… https://t.co/2bSPHHCB31

Well the St. Louis Fed just added a new Weekly Economic Index to FRED and folks, brace yourselves.… https://t.co/GHbtvo3Xts

Aaaaand your weekly reminder that since our health care system ties health insurance to work, workers aren’t just l… https://t.co/59XJsv6yxF

Regular state UI claims are definitely declining. Last week’s figure is still three times the worst week of the Gre… https://t.co/hbOUPLpfwH

Back in March, which feels like a decade ago, I took a look at which occupations were disproportionately hiring wor… https://t.co/iEGdrEL7i5

If you want to know the total number of initial claims for UI filed this week, you have to add now-available Pandem… https://t.co/ml8vHZZkjM

Tomorrow will be the most devastating #JobsDay of our lives. If predictions hold, we will learn we saw a net declin… https://t.co/ZTLt21PuLP

2020 is the first economic crisis of the anthropocene. But it is not the anthropocene as we imagined it (by way of… https://t.co/PRYGjAy1cE

In most places in “the West” government orders did not initiate the shutdown, they ratified it. Delighted to find… https://t.co/xMeR1yQfZJ

Nearly 3.2 million more unemployed. The total is +- 33 million now. I hope those who think the pandemic will be a… https://t.co/X6dKm5xwuX