ADAM TOOZE

According to @OECD estimates quoted by @gavyndavies US would suffer slightly more than Europe in a global trade war… https://t.co/jAa0R4BraG

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How to deal with bullies: "Beijing must recognise the shift in American perceptions …” Its a strange world when… https://t.co/Atkgp5FjaL

Connecting the Congo: DP World wins contract to build deep water port at mouth of Congo river at Banana – crucial f… https://t.co/4Ov34Fv5vv

Europe’s "middle class” is not shrinking in quantitative terms but at its margins the percentage at risk of poverty… https://t.co/z2Z2BvJGAZ

#MARX200: Karl Marx would have celebrated his 200th birthday in 2018. His criticism of capitalism appears even more… https://t.co/43GmqD86tK

‘For one demented summer, it was Mecca’ – the rise and fall of a Yukon gold rush town of Dawson City – classic 1957… https://t.co/ImG8UWyrBO

Effect of uncertainty about US is to shift balance btw France and Germany due to the imbalance in their military ca… https://t.co/m5pzrrkqTJ

How population drained out of the core of the old Paris. Fascinating quantitative historical geography of the Frenc… https://t.co/XfLiGhoh0v

After a surge at the top, it is mid-sized big cities in America that are growing most rapidly.… https://t.co/SyBpGgn9j1

Despite spectacular success of high-speed passenger railway in China, unfortunately road and trucks have dominated… https://t.co/iZ6FKa0DwS

Demonstration against the Kapp Putsch Berlin March 1920 – crucial example of power of mass strike in neutralizing a… https://t.co/z6dUW8yjv0

"It is literally impossible at the moment for any company to say that their cobalt supply chain is highly ethical,”… https://t.co/RWTf1dAwTS

Some forms of capital really aren’t that mobile: VW CFO: “In our industry, there is no way to make any abrupt, larg… https://t.co/Qdn4mUwXUD

The proportions are different but China’s volume of freight traffic is the largest in the world on rail, on road an… https://t.co/UGjq6kVxro

The decline of unionization in the US private sector during the 1980s and 1990s was truly spectacular. w/t… https://t.co/5gtotQbofw

Medicaid and CHIP are key to the redistributive support that the US state provides to bottom 20 % of households.… https://t.co/g2LZEhfynW

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Postwar Germany experienced dramatic inter-generational educational mobility. Since the 1970s that progress has slo… https://t.co/vrETMZfqSX

Someone has done a great map of some of the short-lived states that emerged during the Russian Civil War.… https://t.co/9BLvrbziNs

@BuddyYakov Its a risk worth taking! 😉

A stark graph from the CBO mapping means-tested benefits and taxation onto the US income distribution provides a dr… https://t.co/dibABwJawt

Wrong vocation? Drop out rates from Germany’s famous apprenticeship system are surprisingly high, 24 % for all youn… https://t.co/gsk6JCa9B5

For American households in bottom 20 % of income distribution, means-tested benefits such as medicaid, children hea… https://t.co/APkZooVBQC

Watch The Walls of the WTO, a short film by Ryan S. Jeffery and @zeithistoriker that revisits the history of twenti… https://t.co/TzCvfDxkg9

Germany’s apprenticeship system does not just build a solid “middle class” it is hierarchically structured by educa… https://t.co/crNjXP0UIF

"Together, CBO estimates, the provisions of the ACA that were in effect in 2014 boosted household income, on averag… https://t.co/R1yKBx3cWd

Move South Young People! Alternative indicator of hot spots in German labour market: the relationship between suppl… https://t.co/0737UDsmmk

One of side effects of slower and more unequal growth is that income growth for much of US population depends on tr… https://t.co/1NUU1XkGP2

The working of welfare, childcare and the labour market mean that poverty in Germany is a function of family type.… https://t.co/zrhiDlnvHv

Of the modest reduction in inequality produced by US state 50 % comes through social and health insurance, 25 % thr… https://t.co/1Azm8Jqzkd

Occupational patterns of parents with kids in Germany remain strikingly classical. Only 3 % have woman as sole brea… https://t.co/o3PPFXG0rx

Comparing OECD members it is pretty hard to deny the existence of the reality of something like the “European welfa… https://t.co/9SwREHCMAb

Whether you track into a Gymnasium or a Realschule/Hauptschule in 5/6th grade is not an absolute divide in a German… https://t.co/F2y45uLzp9