ADAM TOOZE

The gender gap in admission to higher education in the UK is remarkable: 40% of 18 year old women v. 30% of young men. And

This podcast on global political economy, history – Wages/Nazi Germany, Carl Schmitt, Kellogg-Briand – China was really fun. With @jordanschnyc @M_C_Klein link.chtbl.com/03A8u0lz https://t.co/9eks6GbMYI

One medium- long-term thing to worry about is investment under COVID-uncertainty. It is not looking good! economist.com/finance-and-ec… Reminded me of this piece from back in

Wildfires, hurricanes and vanishing sea ice: the climate crisis is here Scientists warn extreme, weather-related events around the world show the economic and social costs

Worst day for global economy during covid-19 pandemic was Good Friday. On April 10th lockdowns were at their most severe crushing activity. Global gdp that

After a year of drought, world’s largest tropical wetland, Brazil’s Pantanal, has been burning for week. Largest fire since records began. Blackened, starving jaguars wander

Scaled to 2019 GDP, America’s 1960s moonshot cost $702.3 bn = c. same as initial cost of F35 program, order of magnitude larger than corona

RT @simongerman600: This World #History Timeline shows the main superpowers and dynasties over the last 5000 years. Gorgeous piece of work.…

This was a really enjoyable conversation with @jordanschnyc and @M_C_Klein about history, the rise of China, Wages and Deluge. twitter.com/jordanschnyc/s…

RT @LAReviewofBooks: Yes, we do! —> @LARBchina

RT @GustavAHorn: Europes main problem is lack of demand, says @adam_tooze on @socialeurope . Therefor a fiscal boost is recommended. .https…

Gotta love the fact that @LAReviewofBooks has a “China channel”. chinachannel.org https://t.co/puEGyWFVkC

Based on huge amount of orders the received for masks printed with the words “Black Lives Matter”, Yiwu vendors knew that protests were significant –

November 1944, Lungling, Yunnan — After the Chinese Expeditionary Y-Force drove the Japanese out of the occupied Lungling, American and Chinese soldiers, guided by their

"To name Marxism on scale of "century", 3 conditions: 1. theoretical research object is a typical sample of world, 2. theoretical results have world historical

"If Your Wrists Are Ever Zip-Tied Together, There’s One Simple Way To Escape In Seconds” … just in case this ever comes in handy! 😉

Technosphere and Co-evolution Seminar, Anthropocene Campus 2014, Haus der Kulturen der Welt, Berlin. @HKW_Berlin mpiwg-berlin.mpg.de/research/proje… https://t.co/gwNTNr4oU9

Total fish stocks in the South China Sea have dropped by 70-95% since the 1950s, according to @CSIS while catch rates have declined by 66-75%

"On 9 July 1926, Generalissimo Chiang Kai-shek was installed as commander of the NRA. Speaking at Guangdong Provincial People's Stadium, he announced the Northern Expedition

"In late 2019, I was asked whether I might contribute a short introduction to Thai translation of Arendt’s essay “Personal Responsibility under Dictatorship” explaining why

RT @Brad_Setser: A useful fact to know, when thinking about the global economy … Asian life insurers have invested more abroad (mostly i…

Alarming report this on the rise of acute food insecurity in 2020. Most serious in DRC, Burkina Faso, The Sudan and N. Nigeria due to

"A portrait of Chiang Kai-shek on being appointed commander of the Nationalist Revolutionary Army”. I must admit, Im taken aback by the charisma of this

"If record heat & wildfires weren’t a clear enough sign that climate is changing, then consider this: Wall Street is about to start trading futures

The DRC is emerging as the country with the world’s largest food crisis: About 21.8 million people in the nation are acutely food insecure new

RT @DanAlexander21: 1/ The Qatar Investment Authority, a sovereign wealth fund that acts as an arm of the Qatari government, has been renti…

In May 1924, KMT & CCP members gathered at Sun Yat-sen's residence in Shanghai, to commemorate 3rd anniversary of his office as extraordinary president of

300k seafarers are currently trapped at sea. Big part of problem is fragmentation of ownership, control and operation. GREAT graphic from important piece by @oanhha

According to economic historian Jan de Vries, 10 sailors died for every 47 tons of Asian cargo shipped to Europe by the Dutch East India

The Socialist Youth League of China in Paris, 1924. Zhou Enlai (1) and Deng Xiaoping (2). thinkchina.sg/photo-story-di… https://t.co/ueFlpNM86S

Nearly 20% of world’s 1.6 million seafarers are stranded at sea and at the mercy of employers and shifting quarantine requirements to get them home.

EM & frontier economies are recovering at different speeds from corona shock. Scoring 75 economies, Bloomberg finds Asia leads. Latin America is still struggling to

16-year-old Sichuan youth Deng Xiaoping, in Paris to work and study in 1921. He joined CCP in France, where he met Zhou Enlai. After he

The U.S. is emerging as an early favorite in the all-out showdown to rekindle inflation in the world’s major economies -> debt market inflation expectations

On or around this day in September 2020 we topped 30 million confirmed coronavirus cases worldwide. Deaths heading towards 1 million. bloomberg.com/news/articles/… https://t.co/9NNVGG1Ph9