ADAM TOOZE

How the 1866 transatlantic telegraph connection narrowed and stabilized that gap between New York and Liverpool cot… https://t.co/RtquqfIdAV

Great introduction to thought of French philosopher-historian-social theorist Marcel Gauchet by Michael C. Behrent.… https://t.co/lPF6nIK9LQ

A statue of Saddam Hussein in front of the burning National Olympic Committee in Baghdad in 2003. Credit Tyler Hick… https://t.co/UNYhH2TD7m

Bourtаnge, Netherlаnds. Built in 1593 (during the Eighty Years' War), this is a great example of a Star Fort. https://t.co/88OMeCtm3j

Slowdown at the top: UK economy has a long tail of low productivity firms, but the slowdown in productivity growth… https://t.co/Uo9UCOBKKU

Divergence in labour productivity btw top 100 global firms and rest since early 200s is stark.… https://t.co/ZNjzUCXhv5

How the recovery in financial markets brought the net worth of US households back from crisis of 2008: Nice data se… https://t.co/lcFwoI1m9T

"Originally published in Puck magazine in 1883, “The Protectors of Our Industries” shows Cyrus Field, Jay Gould, Co… https://t.co/J8wnLmFTnA

When did sustained growth start in the UK. New data by Humphries and Weisdorf correcting problems in wage series st… https://t.co/CAf8jjKxws

Habermas: "The Second Sex by Simone de Bouvoir struck a political chord far more than Sartre’s Being and Nothingnes… https://t.co/iLS2YnOwqn

Volatility is non-neutral: How aggregate volatility reduces employment, human capital, and thereby output. Shocks t… https://t.co/IHJmK3irLt

The divergence of prime age labour market participation btw US and other key OECD economies is striking.… https://t.co/AYSs4bXDPS

Habermas on his polemics with Foucault and Derrida in the early 1980s: "Admittedly, I should have done a better job… https://t.co/j2ODP528at

Habermas on the Heidegger shock of the early 1950s: "it was impossible to know that he … had written anti-Semitic… https://t.co/I9At3ajcsJ

It was the gesture of “absolute modernity” that hooked me. … I was confronted above all by someone who overturned… https://t.co/efAgTFHlo3

“The SNCF is about regional cohesion, epic social battles, it’s emotional,” – @ChassNews as informative as ever on… https://t.co/Zi1oh7fA0y

@arindube @nielsandeweg These are clarifying. Striking the way cons commentators, not just in the US but in Germany… https://t.co/xy10dIeN5z

Still industrializing: Many parts of Spain and Germany saw increase in share of manuf workers 1991-2011 v Portugal,… https://t.co/tvDytXK358

What in the US was a China/NAFTA shock, in the EU was a China-EEurope shock. Huge surge in imports over 20 year per… https://t.co/ePFC3Mj4lu

What a Nixed Energy Project Reveals About Vietnam’s South China Sea Calculus. Informative essay on tussle btw Vietn… https://t.co/DwAJ4n3t0S

With German labour market running hot the apprenticeship system is being debated. 25.8% break off training. But man… https://t.co/CnZIfW1L7v

In Bavaria CSU is “expropriating” AfD themes v rest of Germany where Merkel & Annegret-Kramp Karrenbauer are holdin… https://t.co/zoNHj9WUqZ

How the onset of strategic bombing in 1943 shifted the Luftwaffe’s balance. Share of fighters in West surged from 2… https://t.co/IpCtdlt1iq

Remarkable group portrait of AfD members of Bundestag Defense Policy Cttee: combination of lobbyists and former Bun… https://t.co/a06Wz67FpJ

The last post by the brilliant @M_C_Klein from @FTAlphaville and it is @BennSteil on the Marshall Plan. @M_C_Klein… https://t.co/zSXIXP37Tc

"Pro-Europeans” once thought of the EU as a kind of model for the rest of the world. Led by Merkel, they are now ab… https://t.co/yb1Jneha9u

“India is a structurally different country today than what it was back in 2013 . . . fundamentally stronger and les… https://t.co/K4rBYyaeef

“Not so much a “Europe qui protege” as a “Europe qui surveille et punit”.” What will actually emerge from Franco-Ge… https://t.co/D6GuBNs4qV

Worrying about Mehmet Simsek: How long will the Turkish Deputy PM who is seen as voice of market orthodoxy in the E… https://t.co/2UIDV05nOz

"The transformation of the ESM into a European Monetary Fund may be the final, logical step in process of remaking… https://t.co/IvQ8eCNNQQ