ADAM TOOZE

“About 31% of non-working men at age 30 (in US) are not employed either because they are in prison or have been in… https://t.co/0Nhrlqxhn5

Democratic Republic of Congo is estimated to be sitting on $24 trillion of untapped mineral resources, including ke… https://t.co/wg77wL07Sb

James Schlesinger – Heir to McNamara: "“Everything about him spelled “defense intellectual” – the slightly jaded se… https://t.co/KvHPB11h7p

"African-Americans made up about 35 percent of all children raised in the bottom 1 percent of the income distributi… https://t.co/ocxReSPsIK

Compounding multiple disadvantages the marriage rate for black men and women in dramatically lower than that for Wh… https://t.co/7CxLKV6Gyi

@DuncanWeldon It is like @DEHEdgerton shock of the old point, but extending to humans. One thing that always blows… https://t.co/jFK5Scxbx2

“The sons of black families in top 1 % have the same chance of being incarcerated as those of white families earnin… https://t.co/S4RTAHyqfn

Problems of commodification: "Some believe water's emergence as an asset class is just getting started. Suez boss J… https://t.co/pEbDoJhDT4

Only places in America where black men come close to matching income prospects of white men are settings where ther… https://t.co/b1XSvOCEtH

Black white inequality dynamics are dominated by gender. Black girls achieve marginally better outcomes than white… https://t.co/ePQ3qhDqAX

"Some 4 billion people live with severe water scarcity at least one month of the year and half a billion do so all… https://t.co/NTV1Af224G

"about 31% of non-working men at age 30 in US are not employed either because they are in prison or have been in th… https://t.co/A3bZJ0Edgj

In 2003 the cost to sequence an individual human's genome was estimated at $50m. By 2006 that was down to $ 20-25m.… https://t.co/DvoqStuLfF

Extraordinary data on 2.9 m Americans imprisoned 2009-2013 from Looney and Turner: half report no earnings 4 years… https://t.co/zmp8wLYFC6

China doesn’t just have 40 % of installed global supercomputer capacity. It doesn’t just have the fastest machines.… https://t.co/uHzO4N0p9Z

“failed economic theories” peddled by “dinosaurs”. He concluded: “We are going to do the exact opposite.” – in flou… https://t.co/cod1WsriXn

Btw 2001 and 2007 the cost of genome sequencing was following Moore’s law which is spectacular enough. Then it got… https://t.co/1nhbCqkm9F

In 2000 in US unemp rate was 6.1 % , child poverty rate was 13.6 %, population was 12.9 % black and 11.9 % “other,”…

America's Political Economy: Essential new work on intergenerational inequality in the US – how race, gender … -… https://t.co/VbpdEvJnVw

If tech not aluminum/steel is the future of industrial policy and trade policy then China is rapidly establishing a… https://t.co/LcRb3JTXb3

Earnings of American caught up in the great incarceration of the last few decades are largely invariant with regard… https://t.co/QRZQsxA5Mv

"Boys (in the US) who grew up in families in the bottom tenth of the income distribution are about 20 times more li… https://t.co/OKp8Rt4MoT

"This trade war is indeed easy to win. It is going to be the equivalent of the fool’s mate in chess: the game could… https://t.co/er3WqPwxXR

#OTD 1945, two bombs struck USS Franklin (CV-13), resulting in severe damage and the loss of over 800 sailors. Incr… https://t.co/UGN9ItHwnK

“there is no societal acceptance of Hartz IV” – Berlin’s mayor Müller joins campaign to replace core element of Age… https://t.co/jVyKDWovwH

This article (https://t.co/xZQ5Hf7Ij1) is critically important in its implications, but for now just have to say:… https://t.co/GwLUINTIkO

@adam_tooze Thanks, Adam. My friend @RyanSJeffery and I actually made a film about the building, "The Walls of the… https://t.co/RzLzGrZhPR

Zimmermann telegram Jan 1917: transmitted by way of US embassy in Berlin and German embassy in Washington to Mexico… https://t.co/OHBYkMECOI

The passengers on the “sealed train” including Lenin and Zinoviev signed a legal waiver stating that they understoo… https://t.co/koJg5PY3jO

On 9 April 1917 Lenin boarded the “sealed train” at Zurich en route to Petrograd. He was heckled on the platform. T… https://t.co/DK4kaF84LN

Remarkable portrait of Alexander Kerensky (1881-1970) trudovik socialist, “strongman” of the Russia’s provisional g… https://t.co/efqtCXQMWt

In the nick of time: the huge surge in US Army Expeditionary Force in Europe to peak of 1.971 m in November 1918. S… https://t.co/KbkUktltr7

27 Aug 1916 in an intervention that many thought would decide WWI, Romania joins Entente. Its army of 500,000 march… https://t.co/zpGvtbuOQp