ADAM TOOZE

"We cannot return to the past, to tradition, to repetition, because these great immobile domains are the inverted image of the earth that is no

One is not born traditional; one chooses to become traditional by constant innovation. @BrunoLatourAIME We Have Never Been Modern https://t.co/2nYQEKA82B

News out of Zanzibar is deeply worrying: Police and military repression enforcing one-party rule. Has long been the bloodiest battleground of Tanzanian politics. twitter.com/fatma_karume/s…

As Peguy's Clio said, and as Michel Serres repeats, 'we are exchangers and brewers of time' (Serres and Latour, 1992) https://t.co/UWtoRi2xaR

This is an invaluable thread on the dictatorial manipulation of Tanzanian elections by ruling party CCM that should be attracting our attention. Tanzania is one

RT @BobbyMcDonagh1: Better times ahead https://t.co/usrMdA9Crz

RT @patrickfitzg_o: This is a much bigger replay of the late 80s and early 90s when the battle over the value chain between Microsoft, IBM…

RT @policytensor: What is risk society? Beck (p. 38) is absolutely devastating. @alybatt @70sBachchan @adam_tooze @leee_harris https://t.co…

RT @RobinBrooksIIF: Turkish Lira overshot our $/TRY 5.50 fair value by 30% in 2018 (lhs) and we argued loudly this overshooting was unjusti…

RT @lugaricano: @lucasguttenberg @ecb @LucreziaReichli She is arguing that you cannot simply say "oh, I prefer that the @ecb buys my debt,…

RT @DaveKeating: Absolutely true. The EU doesn't suffer from a democratic deficit, but rather an attention deficit. That's s a failure of…

RT @DaveKeating: Both Brussels and Ankara know Turkey will never be an EU member state. But in Brussels nobody wants to say it out loud.…

RT @KeineWunder: @christianbaye13 @DGybas @AndrewWattEU @BachmannRudi @bornecon @MSchularick Okay, darüber lässt sich ja streiten… Ist ab…

RT @KeineWunder: @christianbaye13 @DGybas @AndrewWattEU @BachmannRudi @bornecon @MSchularick Dekarbonisierung ist EU-Politziel, warum soll…

RT @AnselmKuesters: Thanks to the @CentreMarcBloch for organising a wonderful webinar with @adam_tooze presenting his ideas on the historic…

"President Xi Jinping’s vow last month that China will be carbon neutral by 2060 and expectations that the US election could reshape America’s energy sector

The US presidential election is hardly the only factor moving EM currency markets. But the pattern is consistent with a. General relief at possibility that

RT @nicolas_veron: This chart. theguardian.com/us-news/2020/o… https://t.co/0alWoRekzR

V interesting revisionist thread on Afrikakorps operations in 1941. twitter.com/crusaderprojec…

Why is Chinese coffee market such a big deal? In 2018 Chinese consumed c. 4-5 cups per year; for Japan it’s about 360 cups and

UAE vs Turkey: the regional rivalries pitting MBZ (Haftar, Macron, Sisi, Israel, Greece) against Erdogan (Qatar, Libyan government, Muslim brotherhood in exile, Iran?) A useful

Regional breakdown of attitudes towards Euro and ECB within EU member states from @ecb is very interesting. Bergbauer et al 2020. One for @SoberLook ecb.europa.eu/pub/economic-b…

"Turkish lira reached a new record low, trading at 8 against $ for 1st time, after Erdogan goaded European leaders & dared US to hit

This @johnauthers column on desperate effort of markets to pin down US election, Trump’s late rally & the ghosts of 2016 may not be good

“Democratic” stocks: infrastructure, renewable energy, managed healthcare and cannabis stocks, globalized firms. “Republican” basket: energy, defense, and financial stocks, as well as for-profit prison and

Excellent rebuttal to Gerald Braunberger’s profoundly regrettable intervention on ECB and green policy in the FAZ from @KeineWunder … twitter.com/KeineWunder/st…

RT @KeineWunder: Thread gelesen? Geht mir nicht um Meinung (der Text war auch nicht als Kommentar gekennzeichnet). Braunberger suggeriert,…

In Aug 2020 before the new round of shutdowns, private flying briefly rose above 2019 levels. Very wealth have a new reason to opt out

Braunberger of FAZ published a really regrettable piece skeptical of ECB turn to climate policy. faz.net/aktuell/wirtsc… Its a summa summarum of conservative objections to central

If Trump runs Biden close & we have a disputed election -> markets expect $ to rise! Why??! Won’t that be chaos? In the US?

RT @pewresearch: Around two-thirds of registered voters in the U.S. (65%) do not have a college degree, while 36% do. But the share of vote…

Of all European institutions, the parliament currently enjoys highest trust. According to @EurobarometerEU ecb.europa.eu/pub/economic-b… https://t.co/wFLEer03xa

RT @yorksranter: dammit, this should have been my year as a cardboard profiteer twitter.com/adam_tooze/sta…

RT @PatrickBasiewic: @adam_tooze I like that the IDKs have declined as well. It signals a growing engagement with innerworkings of EU/EMU,…

Faced with US tech offensive Beijing’s now prioritizes EDA software used in chip design & machines for chip fabrication = direct challenge to US EDA

The ECB has developed quite an interesting typology to differentiate skepticism towards the Euro as such from skepticism towards the ECB. The biggest surge is