ADAM TOOZE

Ranchers for renewables: partisanship, culture was & lobbying block a futuristic bipartisan energy policy in US… https://t.co/ipDzUYlNdW

Given states eading renewable energy development in the US there is no reason this shouldn’t be a bipartisan effort… https://t.co/PqlmdM2gVT

Interesting @TheEconomist report on efforts to improve irrigation Haiti’s Artibonite valley and broader picture… https://t.co/DooEdGb9WG

Perhaps as much as 19 % of Chinese farm land, 250k square km are contaminated, 35k to lethal degree… https://t.co/oW0Mvn6HLO

With urbanization and soil erosion eating into Chinese arable land contamination is huge additional challenge.… https://t.co/tvAK15Ciw9

Astonishing total of 260 million children attend school in India’s ineffective and ill-designed school system… https://t.co/RHW2aXGRA3

You’re huge: Kouchner touts Rama of Albania as the man who may give the EU some forward momentum in the Balkans… https://t.co/MuDy7LpKOT

@postdiscipline recommend the explanation in the essay itself. it’s well done there.

Building resilience: despite taper tantrums EM are subject to far less severe bouts of devaluation since 2011… https://t.co/vd8vQMFtLw

Profit share in US economy surges as both cost of capital and labour declines in relative terms and “rents" increas… https://t.co/P2yZRph5cA

Pettis on why in China econ activity is NOT = value creation & why China’s stable rate of growth is closer to 3 % https://t.co/2IS31Nppkm

Cashing in on dystopia: @Macquarie in @FTAlphaville recommending: AI, tech, prisons and possibly opiates… https://t.co/WYO1eaAcRH

Bursting a bubble: Labour costs in Ethiopia are low. Some Chinese money is flowing but manuf is not driving growth… https://t.co/3i8tBPJui2

British politics in a nutshell: Homeowners – Con 53 Lab 32 Renters – Con 31 Lab 51

Fed’s "allegiance to what’s considered “normal” harms a lot of people, black Americans in particular.” Kocherlakota! https://t.co/wAaImrG4gW

As usual it is airports, flight times and private jets that set Larry Summers going on infrastructure https://t.co/1kGnr5tQjG

AEI-Brookings looking long and hard at Paid Family Leave. I mean, does anyone else offer those kind of luxuries?… https://t.co/DPgWIcRZ6a

“full employment” in US right now? OECD data throws some light on how far the US is behind possible frontier… https://t.co/ew6ro2lj5c

Highly leveraged firms in countries most exposed to Lehman shock saw largest fall in TFP growth post-crisis… https://t.co/hMLZ4gdkJ6

India’s sterling claims as a result of WWII. Object of bitter contention. How were they unwound? Fascinating essay… https://t.co/1wJD3692uM

In 1770s cooper sheathing had huge impact on efficiency of ocean travel and slave trade: faster & lower mortality… https://t.co/gqWPomfinV

Europe’s medieval economy: Branch/correspondence network of “merchant of Prato” Marco Datini c. 1400 great paper!… https://t.co/455lx5ngdd

A dense and smart read on the Fed’s likely approach today from @TimDuy https://t.co/2Jay3rFOcF

A modest proposal for the Fed to steepen the yield curve by selling the long end where market much thinner… https://t.co/qHRYiH4Ge7

GermanOrdoliberalism engages Afrika: Weidmann’s thoughts on infrastructure and “institutions” citing @B_Eichengreen https://t.co/BzYxumbgIR

1976 ratio of US household income to cost of college was 5.2:1 today it is 2.47:1. How can inequality not increase?… https://t.co/vVCCOn0eR3

Student loan problem in the US has a major gender/race dimension. Women and minorities significantly more burdened… https://t.co/Oss4RrkhZN