ADAM TOOZE

Of the 2.7% of U.S. consumer purchases going to goods labeled “Made in China,” in 2010 only 1.2% actually represent… https://t.co/Yof9DVpkV7

This looks interesting: China's Dream: The Culture of Chinese Communism and the Secret Sources of its Power Prof Ke… https://t.co/WvZFTn0vQT

The “China shock” as seen from the demand side: share of Chinese goods rose from just over 1% to just under 2% of p… https://t.co/mWKcKXZbV1

When the World Bank/IMF score China just below Italy in terms of "government effectiveness” one imagines they must… https://t.co/cNc3PhUW7E

Germany’s Hidden Crisis. Discussing Oliver Nachtwey’s book freshly out with @VersoBooks tomorrow 7 pm at… https://t.co/zqnzZx88l0

@tbarson49 Hi Tom yup. And the table shows how dramatic the impact was in textiles for instance. It is just that it… https://t.co/dypd1qICdq

@mntklprsn62 yup and the effect on manuf employment runs through trade in manuf presumably.

When we talk about globalization and the "China shock" it is important to remember quite how small the imported and… https://t.co/mIDJIh2p8M

China has low levels of political accountability for its per capita income but scores relatively well on corruption… https://t.co/pYVAcxh6rF

Should the Havana Charter of 1948 be the model? Fascinating effort to craft an argument for a progressive post-Trum… https://t.co/sMs90tv3Mv

Is the EU going through a “Machiavellian moment”? Is une Europe qui protège its new raison d’être? @JeremyCliffe is… https://t.co/mltMVMba5B

You really get into guts of sanctions, OPEC & fracking when you distinguish sour oil from US light and sweet oil. T… https://t.co/cTv1qjlqny

@schieritz @SDullien hi Mark. take your point. But I actually think it is interesting to compare various different… https://t.co/X3MPHdtvQ2

"it is not clear whether, over the long term, America’s left should focus on keeping taxes progressive or on boosti… https://t.co/TDnPRtiirc

In "risk society” (Beck) wars of expertise are crucial: How EXXON is stonewalling EU investigations into climate ch… https://t.co/0vS0KuKKuL

US tax system is progressive not because top rates are high but because bottom rates are low + no regressive VA tax… https://t.co/X36CADUsHz

ExxonMobil lobbyists faced a European Parliament ban after the company failed to show up to a hearing on climate ch… https://t.co/wVl2sORcor

You are talking to a child-migrant english-germanish person stuck with a UK passport but living in Manhattan … prea… https://t.co/V33HOlZbWS

One really cannot return to this graph of Eurozone fiscal tightening after 2009 often enough. What strikes me this… https://t.co/VNGV1XAFng

The largest one day airborne operation of the war wasn’t on D-Day and it wasn’t part of Market Garden. It was Opera… https://t.co/31tFGk9hxG

America’s tax system is quite progressive, but its pretax inequality is huge and its welfare/benefits system is bia… https://t.co/B2suPzYbER

#Uber IPO exposes how Saudi cash drives Silicon Valley innovation, & even biggest tech comps can’t stop it. Silicon… https://t.co/yarEjijz3M

On one level, the IMF-WB meetings were about growth worries. But underneath that discussion was a – scarier – debat… https://t.co/qKm2Dwt2Gj

Where American potatoes grow. https://t.co/FWzJzlMgOy

Bad day at the office? A Franco-German compromise emerged over Brexit extension. To be expected. But why then did M… https://t.co/jTFSkWje4p

“The Europeans have gone to Europe.” Garton Ash An on political effects of EU migration. Imf found “significant neg… https://t.co/yoAiaQW1Ee

Where African international students go to study in Africa – very revealing. Nigeria does not even feature on list. https://t.co/dXUbG53ZrY

On China 'do Juncker and his team sound like Barroso and prime minister Cameron, or do they sound like President Tr… https://t.co/gs0658DLvj

“I became a total Republican playing this game,” one SimCity fan told the Los Angeles Times in 1992. “All I wanted… https://t.co/0zucdXZ1NP

Campaign against Nonsense Output Gaps (CANOO): even though real GDP has been stagnant for two decades, the IMF says… https://t.co/XdFhOIYfV2

Campaign against Nonsense Output Gaps (CANOO): on a key macro issue of our time – quasi-permanent stagnation on the… https://t.co/0inUI3npF0

It’s sort of surprising that the popular British military history of 1944/45 in Western Europe goes “D-Day, Normand… https://t.co/yjncA3lqTI

The share of middle-income class (75-200% of median income) in the US income distribution is comparable to that of… https://t.co/TcGHwDXXup

Total income of those btw 75-200% of median income has fallen from 3.9* to 2.9* those with top incomes of 200% plus… https://t.co/RVuSYFycvg

In Nairobi the UN Environmental Assembly for the first time discussed geoengineering a heat shield to slow climate… https://t.co/75kNTWBJEh