ADAM TOOZE

The stagnation in global trade as share of GDP results from 3 divergent trends: European trade (also with ROW) cont… https://t.co/ezJvyVhhAG

In 1989 at time of Tienanmen Square massacre China’s economy made up 4% of global GDP. Today its share is 19% and r… https://t.co/u7nzQQdqyv

Excellent piece by @laraseligman on the attrition of civilian competence authority and morale in the Office of the… https://t.co/uBS6DZvOW7

After 15 years, is it possible to launch a reasoned discussion about Germany’s scanty and punitive Hartz IV “safety… https://t.co/7bbDOaPgdv

China’s Orwellian Social Credit Score Isn’t Real James Horsley in @ForeignPolicy does a good job dissecting simplis… https://t.co/aL53aaqbmT

Environment v. labour is a disastrous confrontation. The future of the planet depends on exit from coal power gener… https://t.co/6rB7GE7LjN

John Adams battling and enormous snake from a 19th century Japanese history of the American revolution. https://t.co/fasaXnMONN

The flurry of Modi government attacks on the RBI is driven, @EswarSPrasad argues by threats to clientelistic system… https://t.co/ONNflO5WVd

Born out of Finance Minister meetings and crisis-driven leadership summit in 2008, the G20 continues to operate two… https://t.co/h6qMPUttIL

Had a lot of fun debating WWI and US hegemony with Bob Kagan. Thanks to @thomaswright08 in the chair! https://t.co/10jlAxD500

Putin pays a heavy price for adventurism: Russia’s economy is 10% down today on pre-2013 trend. 1st, deviation was… https://t.co/zb9IHvzCSo

French banks have largest exposure to Italy but their claims are concentrated in private sector. @inesgraposo at… https://t.co/e0gdVkjSEb

"A dozen years ago the future of technology bounced out of a remote corner of Africa on the back of a truck, along… https://t.co/G6EZmtaisW

15 November is the anniversary day of the Berlin Africa conferences that presided over division of a continent. https://t.co/VoPkCPcdoS

Though it is true, as the @BIS_org warns, that cross border financial exposure of EM has increased. This has to be… https://t.co/9JdUnRlVN7

A counterfactual US-led One Belt One Road …. why is it so much easier to imagine a bombing campaign than an infrast… https://t.co/lR6B8YL01j

Trump is frustrated in his Quixotic effort to curb bilateral trade deficit with China by his own fiscal policy, by… https://t.co/CvzZ4fQqOA

I used to say that we now have the highest CO2 levels in our atmosphere in at least 3 million years, but now there… https://t.co/oJ8cCg65yN

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@adam_tooze And like all tales of feisty small-scale fossil fuel entrepreneurs, it's one underwritten by massive federal support.

“Collapsing decision space”: If you start worrying about hypersonic weapons skimming surface of the sea at Mach 5 t… https://t.co/DYpMQk0Q35

Fracking was once a tale of feisty small-scale entrepreneurs. No longer. Big oil is moving into the shale industry… https://t.co/lshoWdOk7S

In fact of US bluster construction of 9.5bn euro 1200 km Nord Stream 2 gas pipeline is progressing at rapid pace =… https://t.co/UAeL0B52vK

How America’s 7bn chocolate chip a year habit was launched in Massachusetts but entrenched by WWII. As an outsider… https://t.co/fgdEKN1p67

The output gap calculations being used to fine-tune Eurozone fiscal targets are a disaster. Inferred from runs of b… https://t.co/IvW7x4uQyb

We have been looking at questionable output gaps, such as Italy's, where low growth over the last decade appears to… https://t.co/tbdv1RRBRW

Increased labor force participation is one culprit for the elevated unemployment rate. However, 1) employment-to-po… https://t.co/4O8t0iu4Aj

Der Spiegel have got hold of a Franco-German paper setting out their plans for a new eurozone budget. No size speci… https://t.co/gEnFAjJMhv

Ex German Chancellor and Putin associate Gerhard Schröder to Reuters: “We should not put up with being treated like… https://t.co/viH1UEaz9A

“It is absurd that Europe pays for 80% of its energy import – worth €300 bn pa – in US dollars when only roughly 2%…

Don't think Westminster realises quite how tired the EU27 are of pandering to Britain's self-destructive neuroses.… https://t.co/o3clv9rzPr

Fantastic piece by Adam Shatz on Sartre in the Middle East: https://t.co/XemMpLVa3o via @LRB

Output capacity estimates for Greece basically track the recession induced by the Eurozone crisis. https://t.co/w0wuG0Q8bF

This is an important point. In 2008, traders mostly expected that (1) TARP would pass and (2) that markets would ta… https://t.co/FBJL31qCA5

The race to feed the world: remarkable update on long-term @faznet reportage on global agriculture and food. Highli… https://t.co/M4welAh4dP

El Nino events of 1982-3, 1997-8 and 2015-6 caused billions of dollars of damage and cost thousands of lives worldw… https://t.co/WGvHgKDdW0