RT @sovietvisuals: Rehearsal before performance. Photo by Patrick Murphy, Moscow, USSR, 1984 https://t.co/gXAnLEL5Fn
How to Map a “Monster”? Reviewing Yergin’s “The New Map” for @nytimes leave me wondering about problem I was wrestling with in @guardian : how
RT @MaxCRoser: More important than the rate of tests is whether testing is appropriate for the size of the outbreak in a country – this
RT @HarveyMurenow: @adam_tooze Also Linda Clarke's recently republished book: taylorfrancis.com/books/97802033…
RT @MacroCharts: Incredible stat from Bloomberg: "This year’s gap between $SPX best/worst sectors is unusually wide. TECH is up +27% and i…
If you buy an EM equity index. you are buying a portfolio dominated, 42%, by Chinese equity. In 2000 share would have been 5%. thedailyshot.com/2020/09/14/res…
More than 1,200 Indians died from coronavirus in the past day -> death toll 82,000. Confirmed infections = 5m, adding 90k per day. Schools remain
The last twenty years of growth in EME has not been simply a story of piling up capital. There WAS modest TFP growth too. These
RT @Aidan_Regan: Interested in European political economy? This is the syllabus to my updated Autumn 2020 course. docs.google.com/document/d/16q……
The 10yr spread between China and the US hit a multi-year high. Expect this to drive continuing flow of foreign funds into China’s bond markets
Productivity isn’t everything, but in the long run it is almost everything. Paul Krugman (1990) And even before COVID the last 10 years had not
Keck and Lakoff’s books grew out of the same research project on biosecurity at Berkeley, initiated in the wake of 9/11: Avian Reservoirs: Virus Hunters
"Doing the job that liberalism is no longer able to …" That passage from @davies_will still rattling around in my head. twitter.com/adam_tooze/sta…
The EV transition is happening! In Euro Area hybrids now account for 30% of new passenger car registrations. Diesel share has plunged from 70% to
Industrial opal “noodling” equipment … ie sifting old mine workings for precious stones that were missed. passportandpixels.com/digging-opals-… https://t.co/ECKLSCVYOy
Global copper prices currently reflect China’s demand. Well off peaks. But Green energy transition requires electrification -> massive surge in copper demand that will require
Minus 0.0005%: In September 2020 the UK was selling 6-month Treasury bills at negative yields for first time. @business via @SoberLook bloomberg.com/news/articles/… https://t.co/iEC3gfkUhm
That dude is being lowered down that shaft: Opal mining in Australia is a hands on business! passportandpixels.com/digging-opals-… https://t.co/7EbJYAbkIC
Right now it is less useful to be speculating about end of $ hegemony than it is to figure out how patchwork of new central
Considering its enduring size and obvious importance, the construction industry is one of the industries for which we lack a large in-depth historical literature. Was
RT @SCMPNews: A huge chunk of ice – nearly twice the size of Manhattan – has broken off the Arctic's largest remaining ice shelf https://t.…
In July 63% of Eurozone CPI components were declining MoM. thedailyshot.com/2020/09/14/res… https://t.co/cCd9COrvfn
At height of lockdown, Indian industrial production was down 57%. @SoberLook thedailyshot.com/2020/09/14/res… https://t.co/oCUKmZR7bc
RT @maxinefowe: Following Covid-19, the global economy is likely to be faced with #deflation rather than #inflation. A problem that calls f…
RT @RajaKorman: @adam_tooze Re: more recent controversies—In some ways France’s fiscal & c/a behavior and the size of its GSIBs suggests it…
RT @TheEconomist: If schools in Latin America stay closed for seven months from March this year, and governments fail to compensate, lifeti…
@AlanSmithee1987 They should seek solace in reading folks to the left of center. Much less candy coating there!
With no one working from the office, prices of mens suits are plunging in the US. @SoberLook https://t.co/zKOzlHV6bQ
RT @LuShultz: @adam_tooze "In the short period b/w 1848 and 1875, the world was conquered by a relatively small army composed not of soldie…
RT @GretchenTG: Just so I'm being honest. #SciMomJourneys https://t.co/4yZMKtVxwP
RT @RajaKorman: @adam_tooze The piece retweeted above contains this amazing chart. https://t.co/bRVWTVmm02
Review of: The New Map: Energy, Climate, and the Clash of NationsBy Daniel Yergin In the 1990s Daniel Yergin emerged as one of the great
RT @tedfertik: This one really made me do a double take. It is not every day that the Peterson Institute shows up on my feed
RT @global_thoughts: “The US is an increasingly anxious, prickly and incoherent hegemon,” writes CGT Member @adam_tooze in a recent piece r…
2020 is going to be be highly significant not just with regard to China v US but China v India as well. @OECD graphic caricatures
Eric Hobsbawm made 1st public appearance at major academic event in 1950 at Intl Congress of Historical Sciences in Paris. He denounced Colin Clark’s work
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