ADAM TOOZE

The inequality trap: where greater inequality LOWERS a polity’s tendency to redistribute. Analyzed historically: https://t.co/zmXOUV209j

The impact on German children of the Allied blockade in WWI: severe squeeze followed by rapid recovery… https://t.co/5cmNmYdIq2

Urban growth across a period of crisis: Southeast Asian cities 1938-1949. Saigon surged with huge refugee populatio… https://t.co/SxjXOSktgt

Daring comparison of socio-econ structure of Mughal India 1600, England 1688 and Japan 1840. India FAR more unequal… https://t.co/bRqxHDFpx0

How Greece has stopped worrying and learned to like capital controls! Good for limiting tax evasion.… https://t.co/Ym4Yzm3Eoq

Precisely. Obama as incumbent tied left down. Republican primaries 2011 were a clown show. But Romney put lid on. 2… https://t.co/SG5Nt4Oun1

In the US too 2016 presidential election more clearly marked by 2008 crisis than that of 2012. @PeterMandler1 https://t.co/RVpVri0ZtM

This too needs to be remembered. Even before unification Kohl was Germany’s “great moving right show”. https://t.co/AB5qBVahZE

Did Henry VIII really lift England’s first capital controls in 1538? https://t.co/ncN5XrLZ0V

Making of a European moment: Mitterand reached for Kohl’s hand at the Verdun monument Sep 1984… https://t.co/N0c8UFs68K

BREAKING: Helmut Kohl, Germany's ex-chancellor and architect of German reunification in 1990, has died aged 87 https://t.co/p3TspFQ65g

Stagflation alert for the UK: With inflation rising and real wages stagnant Bank of Engl splits over monetary polic… https://t.co/pxbSb7h5Nb

Brexit, Trump, LePen … how we forgot about China. The fear of Jan 2016, the tail risk of a China crisis returns… https://t.co/BFO6ruiXF2

Yes the debt ceiling is still a thing! Come August the world will be worrying! Nostalgia tinged with depression fro… https://t.co/yJlEmtkLbx

Greek debt deal 2017. What do we even call this? #thisisafudge ?https://t.co/hkJINJdiKl

Good elucidation of idea of “credit stimulus” from Biggs and Mayer = counterpart to notion of fiscal stimulus… https://t.co/C1HUcWiyGX

Fascinating on history of drones @TheEconomist One thing wrong: V1 is not a drone but a cruise missile.… https://t.co/XoeMkK64tr

ALARM RINGING: Global credit impulse plunged into negative territory in recent weeks. Data from @UBS @arendkapteyn… https://t.co/K5yKjh8x9a

Wow. Unrepentant reassertion of UK “Treasury View” by Macpherson on 80th annivesary of Keynes’s General Theory… https://t.co/pkCDRrBbiy

Dornbusch: “The crisis takes a longer time coming than u think. then it happens faster than you would have thought.” https://t.co/uYvzeaVx1O

OMNIPRESENCE: US military re-envisioned as perpetual and everywhere – hubris, reality, or perpetual motion machine?… https://t.co/Xey8mM9ulv

A rather useful crib sheet on Hayden White’s alignment of employment, mode of explanation and ideology… https://t.co/nHRwh4nICP

Contrasting takes on European situation right now from Germany. Linke for Greek debt relief. SPD celebrating roamin… https://t.co/jF6hf0AXRa

Report on the impact of automation on the logistics industry which employs 580K in Southern California… https://t.co/KGHqy0T5L4

Biggest vessel in history thru Panama canal 13,000 TEU Cosco docked in Virginia in May opening new East Coast route… https://t.co/RTUA36CKi1