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Clash of Powers US-China Rivalry in Global Trade Governance @KristenHopewell new book could hardly be more timely! One for the bookshelf … cambridge.org/us/academic/su… https://t.co/5YUJrtYILP

Clothing might seem like a “light” industry. But its environmental impact is considerable: 2106 m tons CO2 in 2018 from production, distribution and end use

@tomwestland Where to read the counter narrative?

The surprise of the mega Asian RCEP trade deal for many of us, is symptomatic of our distraction in West. Agreement was reached in late

All the way back in the embattled autumn of 2015 Beijing was pushing the RCEP trade deal to compete with TPP. Trump pulled out of

At times of high uncertainty econometrics suggest that public investment tends to crowd in private spending. Lates @IMFNews Fiscal Monitor. imf.org/en/Publication… https://t.co/9gTWSIbcsa

“If Agbal fails to act decisively, expect the lira to fall sharply to new lows.” Following reshuffle in Turkey’s economic portfolios markets ARE now expecting

The volume of apparel and footwear being produced globally is forecast to increase by 81 % to 102m tons by 2030 on top of gigantic

The latest mantra of the @IMFNews is quality public spending. Public investment is key. Estimates for no. of jobs to be expected vary btw sectors

Good news on the vaccine is not necessarily good for the tech sector which has been a defensive play during the corona crisis. @katie_martin_fx @RobinWigg

By FAR the largest sports franchise in the giant and rapidly growing Indian market is cricket. Guess who owns the TV rights? Disney! Market gigantic

RCEP: On Sunday 15 Nov the leading Asian economies, Australia and NZ signed what is by some measure the largest trade deal in history, the

In a desperate effort to stave off worst affects of corona lockdowns, coverage of social assistance worldwide was extended to an extra 22% of population,

RCEP: On Sunday 15 Nov the leading Asian economies, Australia and NZ signed what is by some measure the largest trade deal in history, the

Pandemonium was the capital of hell in Milton’s Paradise Lost. It was made of solid gold. As imagined by John Martin, 1841. https://t.co/SakuiT8GBd

RT @CardiffGarcia: .@adam_tooze is experimenting with a new chartbook format, which "may ultimately form the backbone of a regular newslett…

RT @economics: Singapore is one of the world's most densely populated countries, intent on building up, down and out. The key to that expan…

Surely a staged photo! If so, who did it? Not a combat one thinks of In chivAlrous terms. twitter.com/c_vargasharle/…

RT @DanielZamoraV: What are the best marxist/leftist takes of Ronald Coase's theory of the firm ?

This settler vision resonates with John Locke’s pregnant phrase, “In the beginning, all the world was America.” Purdy, Jedediah. After Nature (p. 75). https://t.co/eMGV4yppWF

Publications like @IMFNews Fiscal Monitor make great twitter feed. But pinging charts out, one by one loses the coherence of the argument. In a new

RT @liminalhackney: Gorbals, 1964 by Oscar Marzaroli. https://t.co/mhmsVjuYGR

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RT @halftroll: Twitter has been evolving into a new literary form for some time. Threads have emerged as a way to tell stories and curate

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Im compiling my daily flow of tweets into a series of chartbooks. Very interesting exercise e.g. I was suddenly struck by the coincidence of Turkey’s

RT @CosmonautMag: In Yugoslavia “784,000 apartments were built from 1953 to 1984…Apartments were allotted for a lifetime and rents were f…

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“J.G. Ballard has described Kindness as narrating “my life seen through the mirror of the fiction prompted by that life.”” Great point from @thegreatkellino new

"Ballard's fiction transgresses but doesn’t transcend; it resists definition but ends up in the dictionary.” @thegreatkilleno -> lexicographers of the Collins English Dictionary thought to

"To exercise sovereignty within an international system means choosing when and how to refrain from claiming territorial jurisdiction as well as deciding to assert it."

RT @EricTopol: Yes, United States, there is actually a state with a 59.5% test positivity rate, 165 per 100,000 residents with new infectio…