ADAM TOOZE

"Social fields are as tense/exciting as a good game but as serious as reality itself – after all we know no reality independently of social

RT @Kraemer_HB: Die sehr lesenswerte Doppelbiographie "Janet Yellen and Mario Draghi Have One Last Job" von @adam_tooze erklärt viele struk…

"multilateralism-by-majority that—by according no special legitimacy to liberal norms” Ruan Zongze, a scholar at the foreign ministry’s Xi Jinping Diplomatic Research Centre, articulates Beijing’s vision

One of the many things that I learned about Draghi from @alearesu is that in his time in Frankfurt he developed a good relationship with

"China is a hard challenge for liberal democrats precisely because its tyranny in name of the majority is backed by lots of Chinese, albeit at

Last week, like many others, I was puzzling over the logic of Beijing’s sanctions on EU, future of CAI etc ip-quarterly.com/en/fragility-e… The answer from the

"Italy and EMU as a 'Vincolo Esterno': Empowering the Technocrats, Transforming the State." This by Dyson and Feathersone is great. tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.108… Without an external lever

Human resourcefulness in the face of catastrophe! twitter.com/MiddleEastEye/…

RT @PP_Rubens: Another great writer: Boris Pasternak by the Baltic at Merekule, 1910. Painted by his father Leonid Pasternak, who was born…

Ive got to say that this had me for a minute before I noticed the date stamp …. cute! twitter.com/TWT_NOW/status…

RT @PhilippaSigl: @maheb @WeristVera Was wäre, wenn es keine Schuldenbremse mehr gäbe? Würde Deutschland im Schuldenberg versinken? Oder hä…

RT @Daniel_Red_Eire: Domenico Ghirlandaio @c_vollaire https://t.co/eRq63fugMH

What a difference an election makes. From vetoing proposals to issue a new round of IMF SDRs last year, the US Treasury under Yellen is

No interest in Draghi is innocent (2). @alearesu – one of the great Draghi “followers" – is himself a man on a mission and now

@leslieehrlich @Claudia_Sahm Thanks. Glad it was helpful.

RT @DrPhilGoff: The genius we lose to our addiction to punishment is staggering. twitter.com/Prof_Andrisse/…

@pennyrelentless precisely. In Cambridge, a mainly essay-based system as far as history is concerned, you could even distinguish super-elite true “public schools” e.g. Eton from

Mario Draghi's past, present and future: This 2015 long read by @alearesu @AGarnero for @Grand_Continent great. In @ForeignPolicy I draw parallels to Janet Yellen’s trajectory.

The Italian Economy: What Next? (1995) includes pieces by: Modigliani Dornbusch Samuelson Blanchard A pivotal moment for Italy. Anyone know anything good on this debate?

How was this not mindblowingly obvious to anyone involved in education? twitter.com/epopppp/status…

Big essay about Koselleck in a big paper. Wow. Great, you think. Then you discover that K is being served up as a misunderstood victim/lost

Ethiopian airlines is positioning itself to become logistics backbone for African vaccine rollout both from COVAX and China. One for @70sBachchan reuters.com/article/uk-hea… https://t.co/nbjDWvYpI3

RT @RugeBoris: "The spectre of high-end war is now so widespread in French military thinking that the scenario has its own acronym: hem, or…

RT @morcos_pierre: #Sahel | French DoD just posted a very interesting map of Task Force #Takuba which was declared fully operational yester…

Carli's world is ours: this on Italy’s vincolo esterno strategy by @alearesu is fascinating. ilfoglio.it/economia/2016/… For more on Draghi Chartbook Newsletter #18 adamtooze.substack.com/p/chartbook-ne… For American

One year in and insofar as one can speak of a global vaccination drive it is non-Western. EU exports but largely to rich “Western” countries.

@battleforeurope Thanks @battleforeurope for this kind thread. Much appreciated. I will stand by the claim about NextGenEU however. When @EuroBriefing says macro economically irrelevant I

UAE is upgrading from being preferred partner for Sinopharm in testing and early roll out of vaccines to a major regional production hub. As @70sBachchan

Worth remembering that Mario Monti in Nov 2011 enjoyed a groundswell of support in Italy. It didn’t last! Agree with @cinvernizzi1983 that Draghi admin is

@pisaniferry In fact so much so that we should surely be asking what motivates us to write those obituaries.

RT @pisaniferry: Impressive strength. Obituaries of globalisation have been premature. twitter.com/adam_tooze/sta…

"EU would have “no hesitation” in using carbon border tax to protect its industries if bloc’s trading partners put companies in the region at a

Global trade is bouncing back fast. WTO now thinks trade fell by only 5.3% in 2020 and will grow by 8% in 2021! ft.com/content/3696f1… https://t.co/Ma8kBP8eDL

40 % of Kenya’s vegetables are exported to Britain — and around 40 % of UK tea is from Kenya, so a trade deal made

@Claudia_Sahm HI Claudia really appreciate this thread. Thanks. Very reassuring that this rings at least a bit true to you.

@Claudia_Sahm Puts me in mind of a sit com/chekov-style play. Have you seen the interview that Akerlof gave to @SPIEGEL_Wirtsch in 2003 calling for folks