ADAM TOOZE

The UK treasury has advertised the vacancy to replace Mark Carney at the Bank of England. If interested, the closin… https://t.co/0YLNlCfjHz

Worldwide 32-50 billion t of aggregate (sand/gravel) are extracted pa. In 2012 enough concrete was poured to build… https://t.co/k6Hbpw8ag8

Der Teil am Kapitalismus, der aus schnöd materialistischen Interessen die "natürliche" Geschlechterrollen & andere… https://t.co/GkOsjSiCLy

Why does the US have no “national champion” in 5G wireless networks to compete with Huawei or even Ericsson and Nok… https://t.co/qCy0AfPMnv

Apr 27 1902 – Tiemoko Kouyaté born. A West African communist, organiser & propagandist. Edited "La Race nègre". Exe… https://t.co/LGctl0IqRw

Failure to act on climate change -> high carbon equilibria -> risk of catastrophic climatic change -> belated & una… https://t.co/L4zs5xzYxk

The polarizing logic of high and low carbon equilibria is driven in this @bankofengland model by strategic compleme… https://t.co/RyvWbaNFxk

“If he is really close to those vvvips, he cannot tell you.” Fascinating overview of Chinese think tanks and their… https://t.co/aQxDzZUOPN

This levelheaded overview of the risks associated with US corporate debt by @TheEconomist offers an excellent summa… https://t.co/WtuTK9uT0K

Turkey’s choice: two SS-400 batteries complete with radar and command center for $2.5bn or 140 Patriots for $3.5bn… https://t.co/wGtLIbb0jr

Shareholder values: The stock options revolution in executive compensation -> in America btw 1980 and 2013 there is… https://t.co/3euk8zigPJ

Low skilled American workers in big employers used to enjoy a significant wage premium. Since the 1980s this has ev… https://t.co/5pAHHs5w8E

Roughly 1/3 in rise in earnings inequality in US since 1980 is attributable to growing inequality within firms. Thi… https://t.co/L2PQFPYReI

Roughly 2/3 of the increase in inequality in annual earnings in US after 1981 was explained by growing differences… https://t.co/5WtgpNpZTy

A lot of the best Brexit journalists seem so burned out that I'm tempted to propose an ESRC funding scheme that get… https://t.co/ZaiVdb1qci

Microsoft-Exxon Amazon-Haliburton&Shell Google-Total How big data and big oil are forming strategic alliances for a… https://t.co/KrwLMwHVSS

The crisis in US coal has been driven by price shifts and regulatory change: Since 2011, three of the top five US c… https://t.co/klN5IZMRFB

“We are saying to clients this whole silly demarcation of developed markets and emerging markets needs to end”… https://t.co/RXJLSn9Cue

The investment required for a Global Green New Deal to deliver stability at 2o temperature increase are a staggerin… https://t.co/FyYZQ9uHao

"“Every central bank I met last year asked how do I get out of dollars,” said Briscoe of UBS Asset Management. “Mor… https://t.co/NNpJiKMKai

@LucioMM1 the criterion for inclusion is a trade flow of 1% of gdp.

How global trade has been reconfigured around China since the 1990s (mapping flows of 1% of world GDP)… https://t.co/3USRrfBdlk

VW’s CEO Diess commits to massive shift into EV. As @TheEconomist this isnt just an issue of sustainability. EV req… https://t.co/kMbnYeUNiQ

Share of global FX reserves in relation to share of GDP -> highlights how sterling and swiss franc fell out of favo… https://t.co/nxlUbvav5B

The deepening of global trade measured as the increasing intensity of bilateral trade relations from the early 1990… https://t.co/DoqBheWrqj

Judged by co-movement of currencies, China’s de facto currency bloc is closer in size to the dollar zone than is ge… https://t.co/BWAsNnAkL5

A different (Big) Mac Index: If you are going to buy an Apple product somewhere in the world, dont make it an EM. P… https://t.co/rIOj9QjVVy

If “one reason for the dollar’s historic dominance” was the "US-Saudi settlement in the 1970s to invoice oil in pet… https://t.co/2MMLIWNZ8I

It is in the last decade that investment in renewable energy sources has finally surged with solar increasingly dom… https://t.co/WvwW2BsEqV

“Cristina is not a tail risk any more” – Kirchner & prospect of further Argentinian default spooks markets driving… https://t.co/o3WzyUaR2g

Fascinating chapter in the IMF’s April 2019 WEO on the falling price of capital goods since the 1990s and how it ha… https://t.co/BbpLI6NgnH

The next front in Eurozone geofinance? Officials said Berlin would frown on any bid by UniCredit, for Commerzbank.… https://t.co/RDpuUIbG0s

When you put together tariff rates, costs of container shipping, time and distance of travel it is not surprising t… https://t.co/RF6ggBOn5t

Sino-US tensions = "unavoidable concomitant of ongoing shift in relative power. Question is: can they be contained… https://t.co/ZbaEw2uMdQ