ADAM TOOZE

If there is one area where one wishes Trump trade policy well, it would be in making the argument against what rema… https://t.co/rpGHI0767X

The surge in gov subsidies for agriculture in high income countries in 1980s is an underexplored contradictions of… https://t.co/TZ8FO59h1K

For working-class Americans in work the 1980s were really the worst. Real av hourly earnings fell across entire cyc… https://t.co/q4DALRjAjM

US workers displaced from manuf do not appear to drop out of the workforce. That happens to folks in retail (more l… https://t.co/p7u7SksqdF

Trump’s CEA is working the numbers to shake the depressing consensus about the stagnation of median incomes in the… https://t.co/OlmI6LBqk9

The New Deal and WWII made the modern state in the US (and some Americans are still smarting!) – how Fed tax revenu… https://t.co/3H0ci0uAOJ

Hugely uncertain estimates of losses due to theft of trade secrets are key to Trump admin trade policy alarmism.… https://t.co/JqkiuDTest

@georgemagnus1 NO problem. At the very least one would need to distinguish stages of aging v. real existing old soc… https://t.co/jM9ea0pJ1k

Fifty years since the Kerner report on Black-White socio-economic disparity in the US the gaps are painful and in m… https://t.co/F1DmeUpcw6

Three eras of US economic history as defined by the trade balance: colonial-civil war; civil war-Vietnam; since the… https://t.co/5OUjoEZO9E

Sixty million people live near the world’s 50 largest dumpsites, most in low and lower middle-income countries.… https://t.co/tqkYfkhzvT

Why isn’t the US taxing petrol? Real revenue is same as it was in early 1990s. Of course we know the answer. But re… https://t.co/2v04h9nyQQ

Corporate net dividend payment as share of US GDP have risen since 1970s and now fluctuate at twice the level they… https://t.co/0MXLYAlBH6

Infrastructure spending would be good for blue-collar America. 60 % of workers in “infrastructure occupations” have… https://t.co/0wEzKOmtMa

"The cremator’s rule of thumb is that 100 pounds of human fat is the equivalent of 17 gallons of kerosene. If you h… https://t.co/ql5v4diNOO

@duwyn @econoclaste @OxfordEconomics @SoberLook Im not sure. Presumably oldie are no longer saving. So you would ex… https://t.co/NBjSuvixi6

In the postwar period, public capital investment actually contributed powerfully to US labour productivity growth.… https://t.co/UfVNWxoH28

“The most plausible explanation is a China Inc deal,” – on how Geely built its portfolio of motor vehicle holdings… https://t.co/zozkl55F8f

Clearly there is a disparity between road traffic and road investment in the US. But is the answer to build more ro… https://t.co/4PhJhOpyLQ

Since the mid 1980s the US population has become far less willing to move. h/t @TimothyTTaylor… https://t.co/maE6KbZT1P

Marginal propensity to consume relative to wealth has been falling in US since 2000 MPC out of income plunged post-… https://t.co/q6J6NeHFNA

For prime-age workers US labour supply is driven entirely by female participation rates (and immigration)… https://t.co/hgB6Cy3pM4

It is easy to exaggerate the degree of globalization of US economy – exports and imports TOGETHER account for 28 %… https://t.co/VyFzGBMs9c

Using Burning Glass data on nearly all US online vacancies, we (+ @joseazar @Econ_Marshall @Bledi_Taska) find that… https://t.co/cnyqUkKTng

@AshokaMody Cannot wait to read! Saw the title of the final chapter and jumped to conclusions.

Summers v. Trump’s CEA: "If Obamasclerosis theory does not fit facts of slow growth what are its likely causes?" hy… https://t.co/AgE0C3eDKO

“The modern factory job is a mid-tech job”. Computer occupations which do not require a college degree account of 9… https://t.co/r0Gk3b4i72

Systematic blame analysis confirms how differently mainstream media view eurozone crisis across Europe. Great from… https://t.co/W2Uxq9akUV

Amongst the 3000 delegates to China’s Nat Peoples Congress which will ratify lifting Xi’s term cap, the share of su… https://t.co/A3Cf9fNZnk

@BondHack @DeutscheBank FANTASTIC piece!

Mapping @DeutscheBank largest shareholder, the opaque HNA business network. Should investors "take comfort from clo… https://t.co/diU7R90ml6