ADAM TOOZE

Gotta say I am loving the new Bad Plus line-up of Reid Anderson and Dave King with Orrin Evans. Delighted to discover two new albums

The Weather Forecasting Factory with 64k human computers as proposed by Lewis Fry Richardson in 1922 and imagined by Stephen Conlin. A director Standing on

Felix Exner’s rotating-dishpan model of general circulation, photographed from above, 1923. Tongues of cold water radiate out from ice at the center and form vortices

First map of global temperatures based on Humboldt’s concept of isotherms, ca. 1823. Based on data from 58 weather stations. By 1864 there were 2000

“sentenced to Chernivtsi, pardoned to Graz, promoted to Vienna.” Theodor Mommsen’s memorable quip about a successful academic career in the Habsburg Empire: Coen, Deborah R..

"Karl Kraus agreed that the Habsburg capital Vienna was a laboratory, namely, an “experimental station for the end of the world.”” i.e. »Versuchsstation des Weltuntergangs«

@FabiusMayland @DanielaGabor Province, city, local governments. Power utilities. Coal mines and miners. Folks who have lent them money.

RT @olivergraf: «There are several hundred large and profitable corporations whose entire business model will be upended by rapid and deep…

RT @climate: The rainforests are vanishing at a rate of 1.5 acres per second. Here’s what it will take to stop the destruction before they’…

G. on issue of analytical continuity with Crashed: I'm a pluralist. Macrofinance matters. In a 2008-style implosion it may dominate. But I dont see why

F. the various strategic option for giant asset managers, in shaping green financial regime, creating new markets, managing risks in political terms, all of which

E. As I say: "like the communist regime in Beijing, “big money” in the West is beginning to take a strategic view … for Western

A. Its a great idea and one @DanielaGabor is already pursuing herself. B. I'm by no means committed to "methodological nationalism". Xi's speaks on behalf

C. In the piece I suggest that G40 format may be needed but then go on to say "imagining a forum is one thing, the

D. China has BRI. But EU lacks any equivalent. Germany's "Marshall Plan for Africa" was empty. EU could use pricing power -> that makes private

After Xi's carbon neutrality announcement what now? In a @ForeignPolicy piece I pose question with regard to other big EM, which are currently driving most

RT @picharbonnier: Qui aurait dit il y a 20 ans, ou même 10, que BL serait sur les plateaux télé ? Les arrangements entre le

Pick you data source on the US Main Street economy and they are all saying that the recovery is a Swoosh not a V-shape. Both

@RM7409 @DeutscheBank @SoberLook Its predecessors included, for instance, the kingdom of Sardinia which borrowed at a certain interest rate … it is perfectly reasonable and

@DanielaGabor @forfinancewatch I would describe this as a crash test of the state-centric framing. Eu hardly nationalist. But yes this was not an essay that

RT @DanielaGabor: @adam_tooze @forfinancewatch wonder if seeing climate as a new frontier of financial accumulation (via 'nature as an asse…

@DanielaGabor @forfinancewatch Only asked @DanielaGabor because Im really struggling to see disagreement here. My logic chain: China has BRI. EU? "Marshall Plan for Africa”. Zero.

RT @jfkirkegaard: @adam_tooze @DeutscheBank @SoberLook It’s settled – @ECB really does have more (monetary) divisions than the Pope…..

Can Xi’s carbon neutrality commitment be generalized to world of EM? What would be levers? China has BRI. EU blanches at mere thought. Carbon taxes?

RT @heimbergecon: Very interesting piece by @adam_tooze on past, present and future of climate policy: "What both Western and Chinese clima…

@ILupobianco @DeutscheBank @SoberLook There is a @BoE_Research that takes the data back to the medieval period in similar style. In the Italian case it must

This was a fascinating conversation. Thank you @lugaricano twitter.com/lugaricano/sta…

@DanielaGabor "There are signs that, like the communist regime in Beijing, “big money” in the West is beginning to take a strategic view.” Or did

@DanielaGabor HI @DanielaGabor did you have chance to read it? I explicitly referred to possible role for “big money”. I actually analogize btw them and

RT @fredshaia: New words from @adam_tooze underscore the need for an international Climate Club of countries that would collectively commit…

RT @simplescholar: @TehRaio @adam_tooze I’d see as a function of the gap b/w VC fund size in the US vs Europe. The three RoW unis

Looking at this table I could not help wondering whether they actually covered Unis outside N America and Israel. I mean where are Oxford, Cambridge,

RT @MaxCRoser: $170 billion are a bit more than one percent of $16 trillion twitter.com/jmhorp/status/…

RT @_ArnaudS_: Consistently impressed by how often @OurWorldInData manages to have a detailed writeup and clear charts about some niggling…