ADAM TOOZE

Merkel as Godmother – System M: “value-abstinence”, “theme-shyness” and an elevation of Machtpolitik (the politics… https://t.co/EIs6S2zdpB

The origins of the “Merkel method” are not to be found in 2015 but in 2005 when Schroeder’s counterattack against h… https://t.co/PWGBwWh3h8

@adam_tooze Reminds me of the voice recording of Helmuth von Moltke the Elder, apparently the only person born in t… https://t.co/hzOjRLwo2L

Private pension fund schemes control $ 41 trillion globally with 60 % held in the US. h/t @DuncanWeldon Fascinating… https://t.co/ELNLNRj6Co

Did you know there was a photograph of Metternich? Born 1773 when Frederick the great still had ten years to rule!… https://t.co/Vtl1xTYP0l

Mortgage balances in hardest-hit crisis states of 2008 – Florida, Arizona, Nevada, and California – have still not… https://t.co/dx2VJOijZn

A gorgeous shot! USS Lake Champlain (CVS-39) at NAS Quonset Point, Rhode Island (USA), on 22 December 1963. In the… https://t.co/50jdTRbTiK

Cities and population in low-elevation coastal zones in Asia are most exposed to sea level rise and climate change.… https://t.co/jcob85BpOV

Scrambling to survive in fierce consolidation of global shipping S. Korea announces 'Five-Year Plan for the Reconst… https://t.co/lwyISFsDPA

Observationally-informed climate change models produce the grimmest predictions! This involves using satellite data… https://t.co/vTxT0wZuZN

Running it hot – Dems may fume over hypocrisy of Republicans, but as @DeanBaker13 points out we are going to find o… https://t.co/CpMp5YLJkS

@WillWargo Hi Will – I’m a conventional Scharnhorstian I fear.

@HFlassbeckEcon @newscientist do you have an alternative map you prefer? would be very interesting to compare!

Tracking immigration to Palestine/Israel since 1920s, puts the Soviet immigration shock of the 1990s in perspective… https://t.co/R1dbY2c9Pc

4 degrees is all it takes to bring about total reorganization of human life on the planet. At least according to th… https://t.co/PJ9Qm7JhmZ

Self-destruction: Latest opinion poll has SPD at 16.5 % = 1.5 % ahead of AfD = party that will have Finance Ministr… https://t.co/X0vrvoKJuh

AfD-affiliated trade union Zentrum Automobil headed by ex neonazi is making headway amongst German auto industry wo… https://t.co/TEEbHXxsVm

Shades of the NSBO? Daimler boss is worried that right-wing group Zentrum Automobil will do well in works council e… https://t.co/2XoY6FrHSK

Tax really can make a difference! Making the case for considering distribution first and growth second. The thing t… https://t.co/tKohdZmspo

Marie von Clausewitz: The Woman Behind the Making of On War – really excellent social, cultural and political histo… https://t.co/dk7XdQjPJu

Ouch!!!!! https://t.co/h75zZc5WAw

Focus on bottom quintile or even the median and between 1995 and 2010 German incomes actually declined. Explosive d… https://t.co/rLFGuRwFZO

From Kaldor’s stylized facts to Piketty’s – what flips regime is emergence of large-scale rents as measured by surg… https://t.co/WYIxBfkmjt

Remarkable surge in support for Spain's centrist-unionist @CiudadanosCs since Catalan crisis: https://t.co/Kiw2oPyUcu

Explaining $ weakness: "Change in relative growth expectations between US&Europe led to relative movements in yield… https://t.co/tFGJq1cy3z

Filip Novokmet’s thesis does Piketty for Eastern Europe. Looks Fascinating! Between communism and capitalism: essay… https://t.co/kpBZw49nP5

On the uneven (but broadly positive) effect of multinational investment on wages paid in European labour markets. O… https://t.co/Yx6sUmygai

In the summer of 2017 “Xi clearly saw something he didn’t like and he moved quickly.” – not since 1970s has China’s… https://t.co/VmlzSsblgv

A misleading analysis of Eastern Europe’s economic relationship with EU by @PikettyLeMonde has elicited this effect… https://t.co/yfrIB3gleq

1831 the medico-political emergency of liberal Europe: “(Russian) Barbarism and Cholera enter Europe. Polish people… https://t.co/dw6Nw0rFBu

"Of UN Security Council members, China has most peacekeepers in Africa. When Zimbabwe’s generals were preparing to… https://t.co/RTv9zLKRv2

Isambard Kingdom Brunel, English mechanical and civil engineer who is considered "one of the most ingenious and pro… https://t.co/1n8Lh2pZ61