ADAM TOOZE

A cutaway showing the establishment of a new escalator system at Piccadilly Circus Tube Station, 1927. https://t.co/k7JJ4S1PYs

The affluent Midwest is the only part of the US free from the blights both of poverty and opioid addiction v. Kentu… https://t.co/CPrtMGeH4c

America's opioid crisis is also a crisis of the poor: addiction rates are more than twice as high for those in pove… https://t.co/BaWUnjoFyY

Aufstehen – Stand Up Wagenknecht launches new cross party left initiative in Germany to break the Red-Green lock gr… https://t.co/zxocd4S7yw

The push to eliminate inequality through urbanization is being hampered through a policy know as hukou, in addition… https://t.co/RVnHOI1Uo3

Merkel’s CDU & Seehofer’s CSU at 29% = lowest level of support ever recorded with AfD and Greens benefiting.… https://t.co/66gCifvfqW

When Google exited China in 2010 it presumably imagined it would return on its own terms. It hasn’t worked out that… https://t.co/sDsYTeSuIz

"The blueprint for corporate America’s global influence in many industries has been straightforward: build scale in… https://t.co/jamzlpUJ7J

Xi’s tub-thumping has caused China’s conglomerates to focus attention on poverty alleviation. Alibaba is focusing o… https://t.co/uT3TZGMvyf

Female labour market participation is still in top 1/3 of OECD, but it has not increased since 2007 v entire rest o… https://t.co/L6N1YODKXC

Xi has vowed to lift the last 70m rural Chinese living on less than $335 out of poverty. Isolated villages in inlan… https://t.co/1c3m4l2B2U

Allowing for aging, the employment-population ratio in both Italy and the United States was essentially unchanged b… https://t.co/3YVsq1SAcG

Corporate reconfigurations revolve around China: Heineken takes a 40 % stake in China’s largest brewery CR to gain… https://t.co/CYcvSDuAIe

The opioid epidemic is a disaster above all for White Americans who exposure to the crisis is more than twice that… https://t.co/m67pfId2MC

Back to reality: turns out there really never was a Juncker-Trump “deal”. France kept ag off the table, Trump buy A… https://t.co/gIQqmRXbfm

@ThinkAdvisor Can I just say that I took myself to be repeating what I take to be common sense!

This is amazing! Sweet potato has closely related names in Mexico and Indonesia, Peru and Maori. https://t.co/lbG0L7tlI9

You know who benefits from a Sino-American auto tariff war. Not BMW or Daimler who ship SUVs from the US, but Toyot… https://t.co/J41ennlkVv

The cows are dying: In face of terrible drought Southern Iraq is further destabilized by huge hit to its pastoral e… https://t.co/DUXfDIf0z3

Whilst China has One Belt One Road for Africa and Pakistan, Japan is planning a Sovereign Wealth Fund to invest in… https://t.co/j21Cd5xKcw

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The only thinker whose ideas truly frighten me is Charles Tilly.

Still kicking myself for missing the chance to drop the name wicksell on Newsnight. … im learning! I guess I was… https://t.co/cyELAQmIt8

@adam_tooze Natural rate of interest is a bit earlier than 1920s. Wicksell wrote about it in 1898 (Interest & Prices) @BBCNewsnight

Republican party rhetoric long cultivated popular nationalism whilst pursuing business globalism. Now it reaps the… https://t.co/Qi6yCKC6SU

The US Army has almost as many black women members as white women. Black women also make up disproportionately larg… https://t.co/cmAldBKOqk

US military became all volunteer in 1973, but size of forces did not shrink until the end of Cold War and advent of… https://t.co/zxzUTDGiif

The leverage in China’s real estate sector is outsized by global standards. A key area of concern in the regime’s d… https://t.co/2kDWbaamrC

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Let history record that the UK, an economy and society built on coal, effectively ended its coal use in 2018 well a… https://t.co/c3nPOmxFHD

Cable news TV has an outsized presence in the political imaginary of the US, enhanced by Trump’s habits. But its au… https://t.co/PhIVyQA0Z4

The shifting skill profile of employment growth in the US since the 1980s is stark. In the last decade growth in hi… https://t.co/Bppzf6nePZ