ADAM TOOZE

Cambridge History of the Second World War out in affordable paperback! To co-edit and co-wite with Michael Geyer wa… https://t.co/UCQS2GjdPz

Cecil B. DeMille’s 1920s rendition of ancient Egypt discovered under sand dunes of California one hundred years lat… https://t.co/rP3QhmOD8M

The sandwich that conquered the world – In spring of 1980 M&@ launched the first prepackaged sandwiches. It is now… https://t.co/fXbmaLpDh8

The UK is its own 2nd largest source of FDI: How the Dutch tax shelter regime distorts the national accounts https://t.co/RBpIeS7pQu

Acyclical component in prices (mainly healthcare) accounts in large part for anemic inflation in the US… https://t.co/ZpRWDehz8R

Growing focus on Africa a distinctive feature of German foreign policy under Merkel: https://t.co/AW47UTDktn

Tail wagging the dog: coal mining employment in the EU. A tiny problem causing disproportionate headaches.… https://t.co/Rdc2RDgeSD

Four random evening reads. (Three of them that I read this week, one that I’m about to reread).

Luxemburg, Kautsky, Schifrin, Hilferding, Heinmann, Borkenau, Rosenberg, Schumacher, Schmid, Reuter, Fraenkel, Löwe… https://t.co/RFfsC0hb4I

Europe/Germany’s dirty secret: 45 % of electricity generation comes from highly polluting coal!… https://t.co/fI3ch5WKaQ

FoxNews has the impact it does not just because of its reach but because its audience has fewer other new sources… https://t.co/D3wAzYCTth

Toqueville’s Revenge. State, Society and Economy in Contemporary France by J.D. Levy – looking forward to reading t… https://t.co/UL9lZegygM

The latest from the MI5 files: including Profumo’s Nazi spy connection and the watch put o Kingsley Amis… https://t.co/pu5lXEKXHu

The great divergence: productivity and incomes of the bottom 90 % – only Canada avoids divergence… https://t.co/2iiQwxENw0

"Exchange rates affect the economy not only through a trade channel but also through a financial channel. The finan… https://t.co/U3Pswt0x9l

If you want to understand the challenges facing UK industrial strategy, spend a moment considering these maps, from… https://t.co/wwIE6ZEUBR

"The global economy is not just a group of islands, but a set of nodes connected by a dense network of financial cl… https://t.co/P4vMXpJwOq

Global production of coconuts is stagnating at around 16 m tons. Plantations in India, Philippines and Indonesia ar… https://t.co/bzGYrNNHza

Assembly in Mexico of core Asian components including the large glass LCD panel, is key to the flat screen TV trans… https://t.co/d3lxoMTtV1

This is the world’s last commercial sailing ship, The Pamir, rounding Cape Horn for the last time in 1949. https://t.co/3aNASosWIL

@ronanfitz22 August 2018

As a lifelong follower, one of the things I find puzzling about Eichengreen’s interpretation of recent financial hi… https://t.co/4NCQJLt1lw

Hanging with the $: 2008 shift out of GSEs into Treasuries: nice graph from @B_Eichengreen Exorbitant Privilege On… https://t.co/J9MIKHjt8U

The euro has replaced not $ but pound sterling as core partner currency of $. Are there implications for renminbi a… https://t.co/ITY7V012qA

@deepwatrcreatur @csissoko this is a paraphrase of Mehrling 2015

$ that dominates is Euro$ = private liability of global banks not the public liability of a central bank. And fact… https://t.co/AGSKEyxRdP

Giovanni Botero’s The Reason of State (CUP). 1589 set out after Machiavelli to reconcile power and morality in a ne… https://t.co/YdjU4yS8my