ADAM TOOZE

Older societies tend to have lower rates of inflation. One can think of various channels of causation – economic, p… https://t.co/qZjRvLYhCC

Smell a rat? The trajectory of hospital services pricing in the US is just crazy. 6-7 % p.a. in the early 2000s.… https://t.co/ehfUs2xOlu

The surge of student debt in the US since the 1990s is staggering. Not something one can repeat too often.… https://t.co/sEi1k5MPNH

Three things are for sure. It is going to be brilliant, controversial and depressing. Ashoka Mody’s critical histor… https://t.co/PCIHwyPxjR

French coverage of eurozone crisis was marked by lack of criticism of EU institutions. Great from @Bruegel_org… https://t.co/vMNP0Zf59q

Size and market power matters. How the mass of US firms breaks into the strong and the weak. h/t @FD and Lapthorne… https://t.co/elOCx6PrPt

Banking union is not enough. "A bolder, more sweeping approach is needed. A modern vision of the eurozone needs to… https://t.co/ClZA17I8Oy

Peak Zombie: According to @DeutscheBank the % of firms unable to cover interest costs out of operating profits was… https://t.co/TsPGxqku4A

Systematic quantitative analysis suggests that German media coverage of eurozone crisis had a huge blindspot! They… https://t.co/8ckTHxhbum

Once the development frontier, China’s Northeast region, formerly known as Manchuria, is now a serious drag on the… https://t.co/TwOWIQrC7M

"Don’t put the blame on me: How different countries blamed different actors for the Eurozone crisis" – interesting… https://t.co/fS6Nmt2KeV

After a period of spectacular structural change, composition of Chinese’s exports has stabilized since 2007-2008… https://t.co/ZxqOcTbFkX

“The development of glass by the Phoenicians and the introduction of potatoes in Europe were more important than th… https://t.co/p3JyhJK3w7

Btw late 60s and early 1980s investment in public non-res structures in the US halved and since 2010 has halved aga… https://t.co/L2STtWUaID

@mucha_carlos no thanks! Looks great …..

China’s national growth may be slowing down, but in the Northeast region it is collapsing! Jilin, Liaoning Heilongj… https://t.co/RXFTBNuIoY

Do we have US data showing saving rates broken down by wealth level? Juxtaposing wealth gains and falling savings r… https://t.co/ndVGoAlnqj

@pragmatico100 OECD has some I seem to remember.

The left behind: there is a huge gap in early childhood educational performance btw China’s cities and rural areas… https://t.co/X4gsrIlJs0

China TFP #2: using simpler input measures and not breaking out the effects of structural or ownership change you g… https://t.co/XA8FB2VdZU

Hannah Arendt’s library card for the Bibliotheque Nationale de France. .@laBnF thanks to @_Amonet__ #WorldBookDay https://t.co/ShTeOQVlyH

China may have triumphed in poverty eradication but its tax and benefit system have remarkably little impact on inc… https://t.co/5LcAMZBsNq

China has effectively eliminated extreme poverty. But population at risk of moderate poverty at PPP US$3.10 remains… https://t.co/ewIlrH5v5D

“The development of glass by the Phoenicians and the introduction of potatoes in Europe were more important than th… https://t.co/aoBhXlz0CN

Rebooting secular stagnation! Once you allow for cyclical rebound (using Okun’s law), the trend growth line of US e… https://t.co/x2SYHQ8KgA

The Austrian foreign Minister Ottokar von Czernin (l.) and his German counterpart Richard von Kühlmann at Brest-Lit… https://t.co/ZsY1gYOPKi

A prussian aristocratic family at war – extraordinary reconstruction of the role played by family of von Blumenthal… https://t.co/f7WNdS8GBP

At time of American civil war 79 % of US urban population was in North East and Western states, a mere 10 % in the…