ADAM TOOZE

Picture 1: The German parliament and federal government applauding a Holocaust survivor who has just addressed them… https://t.co/x9p4b7qdYx

Watching factory activity. You don’t need to rely on statistical returns. If you are @spaceknow you can use satelli… https://t.co/A9MbwXYte5

The Billion Prices Project gets a better read on actual inflation in Argentina by compiling online price data. Fasc… https://t.co/0pqLkGQvqO

Economic statistics in an age of big data. Online prices and satellite imagery promise to reveal what is really goi… https://t.co/lQA99aSiqs

It's kind of remarkable how people who treat the idea that the state has the capacity to manage railways or electri… https://t.co/Dlo8VpmacI

Falling to the bottom: Btw 2006 and 2012 % of US households with less than $15k net worth surged from 30 to 45 %. A…

The AfD as leading party of opposition is entitled to nominate three cttee chairs. For finance they picked a gold b… https://t.co/QfI0xhcleF

Remnants of infrastructural ambition – the steam locomotive graveyard at Uyuni Bolivia where salt eats away at earl… https://t.co/673O3C3zxM

How credit rationing hit! % of borrowers below credit score threshold for prime mortgages surged from 54 to 70 % 20… https://t.co/HuhJyTgANh

Revised Maddison data puts “Western offshoots” dominated by the US clearly ahead of Europe throughout their develop… https://t.co/WNbg24z7qv

The first Ostfront? Why is more not made of fact that in battles of 7 Years War that pitted Prussia v. Russia order… https://t.co/vG2q2Ulw2H

The post-2008 historiographical moment, (the return of the "history of capitalism,") has been important for showing… https://t.co/yklHDUwqaE

Revising Maddison and widening the gap between the US and the rest! This may be big news for long-run and wide-rang… https://t.co/tQS9TuowQG

Falling to the bottom: Btw 2006 and 2012 % of US households with less than $15k net worth surged from 30 to 45 %. A…

Fascinating paper by Amromin, De Nardi & Schulze from @ChicagoFed on wealth effects and consumption during the 2008… https://t.co/dr7t8EMvsh

US personal savings rate is subject to some rather surprising fluctuations, but it is now back down to pre crisis l… https://t.co/FLSaW3DH59

And: Why Has US Regional Convergence Declined? – https://t.co/tOjt6KvBkh

The big story in France (and the euro area), is investment. Up 9% in two years, and back above pre-crisis levels fo… https://t.co/kaOFa36UBf

Yield spread – borrowing for Bourbon France was a lot more expensive than it was for Hanoverian Britain Welde and W… https://t.co/VXGCAXJmHL

Great cri de coeur from @fsaraceno on why growth not debt is Italy’s BIG problem, why debt is unlikely to be the ca… https://t.co/a0UAvk7HeH

Btw 1880 and 1980 lower income states in US converged with higher income regions. Then convergence stopped. Why?… https://t.co/KMHQSLnSAA

Provision of childcare for young children in Germany has increased significantly but there is still huge unmet dema… https://t.co/VUcHDVKLTn

The @OECD PISA study finds that impact of cultural and educational disadvantage on educational outcomes varies enor… https://t.co/I4mlRXMmp5

1/3 Thaler with the bust of Tsarina Elizabeth from the first occupation of Königsberg between 1759-1762 what is now… https://t.co/X06P4Uo8oC

Fascinating retrospective on America’s housing crisis from @WSJ reporter @RyanDezember who is still caught up in it… https://t.co/totdHwIaD8

Hayek’s road to serfdom and Poland’s Great Transformation both appeared in 1944, both were reviewed by John Chamber… https://t.co/tpQETv3Ws3

The Great Generation – Born in 1886, Polanyi’s contemporaries in Budapest included Jaszi, Mannheim, Lukacs, Szilard… https://t.co/z005AcnZ6u

It’s not unusual … in the Post-Bretton Woods World a 9 % fall in the dollar in a 12 month period is hardly cause fo…

The dangers of the new auto-based mobility technologies is that they perpetuate an unsustainable system. Great by… https://t.co/b9eH3jVsk9

#Map compares homicide rates of #USA states and countries in #Europe. You are less likely to be murdered in Europe… https://t.co/Vu27Y5cK9T

Enrico Letta : «Sur la question migratoire, l’esprit européen n’existe pas» https://t.co/GKJ0TgbtvO via @libe

Frog analogies anyone? Bond yields are rising across the board. Even 5-year Bunds are out of negative territory. Wh… https://t.co/ErxlGRXdlk

The end of line for the Bundeswehr’s in house barber shops! In depth research by audit dept reveals that 500k euro… https://t.co/AdZkPwXo2u