
American hubris
The US is addicted to greatness – and haunted by its loss. Great powers, both past and present, are haunted by three interconnected preoccupations: they
The US is addicted to greatness – and haunted by its loss. Great powers, both past and present, are haunted by three interconnected preoccupations: they
Natural gas has made Qatar among the wealthiest countries in the world. On this episode, Adam and Cameron discuss whether global warming and other factors
Chartbook: Top Links #129 EU debt, Islamic finance, Illustrious corpses & Chekov as barfly adamtooze.substack.com/p/top-links-12…
RT @_TimBarker: Thanks to @jacobin for running my letter in response to their inflation issue https://t.co/gATBCDhBWT
How convulsive structural change shapes subjectivities. A personal memoir of the automotive revolution in Europe in the 60s and 70s. Chartbook Newsletter #178. adamtooze.substack.com/p/chartbook-17… https://t.co/GtLin6IAHM
The spread of car culture around the world btw 1950s and 1970s was inspired by nothing short of a revolution: a fourfold increase in automobile
RT @Roger__McCarthy: @adam_tooze Something I noticed reading WW2 period memoirs was just how many people mentioned in them survived the war…
@joesmith323 Then as now, understanding corporate strategies is crucial if you want to properly evaluate the effect of protectionist measures like Imperial preference or the
In the 1970s/80s the crisis in the European and US auto industry around the problematique of "mass production" triggered the last big debate about industrial
@Brad_Setser Thanks Brad much appreciated!
Looking back it seems to me that you were lucky in Eur by 1980s if you did not know someone who knew someone who was
Witnesses to the automobile revolution. How a bunch of data triggered a flood of personal memories. I literally went to sleep dreaming of car crashes.
@BobbyGulotty @yuanjiazh thankj you.
RT @yarbatman: So @adam_tooze and cars is a great combo. But a tiny quibble with the claim that Soviet auto production was of a “smaller
RT @PhillipsPOBrien: The kind of thing that might not get the coverage, but really matters
RT @Brad_Setser: I have spent almost twenty years of my life looking at China's balance of payments data in one way or another. Right n…
RT @lugaricano: 18 months after the first emissions of NextGenEU debt, the market does not consider European Debt as a safe asset. Today @G…
@policytensor Depends on how quickly their hospital system is overwhelmed?
RT @vivianwubeijing: Talented Chinese netizens use this graphic (no idea who drew it though) to illustrate what the state gov has done in…
RT @70sBachchan: 25/ This thread was on how Pentagon thinks of climate. TOY ACTION FIGURE version below. TLDR no cuts to fossils, no redep…
RT @70sBachchan: Pentagon just unclassified its Climate report to the National Security Council. Department of Defense wants you to know…
RT @irl_neil: latest chartbook is nice. on the personal relationship to fordism as civilization. As the son of a former autoworker (my moth…
RT @JosephPolitano: Hey everyone! Honored to say I was made one of @Money 's 50 change makers (get it, money, changemakers?) this year for…
RT @McwilliamsBen: 🚨 In November, the EU saved enough gas (-23%) to hypothetically fill both Nord Stream 1 and the never-used Nord Stream 2…
RT @RebekahGShirley: So just to clarify, the US big launched a voluntary carbon market scheme to dissuade Global South countries from devel…
RT @ArsCrypta: @Andrey4Mir Harry Jamesovich… I implore you for the sake of God tel me what I am… a cretin of the worst sort… even
RT @Reuters: European energy firms dominate landmark California offshore wind auction reut.rs/3VSdjmI https://t.co/k0ebECmVPy
RT @stephensemler: I estimate that Biden’s FY2023 Pentagon budget will transfer ~$452 billion to private companies, based on my analysis of…
RT @HenzeTimon: Auch hier noch mal offiziell: Seit kurzem bin ich wieder Teil des Teams beim @DezernatZ. Zusammen mit @janeksteitz und @ver…
Occasionally you come across a statistical chart that casts a part of your personal history in a new light, data that places your inner life
Chartbook: Chartbook #178 Witnesses to the automobile revolution adamtooze.substack.com/p/chartbook-17…
@Damianrod23 @GerpisaA THANK you these are amazing!
@BobbyGulotty wow. thank you that is amazing … precisely this kind of stuffis what im looking for. was this discontinued?
@ctkalish @andresvernon thank you both. The OICA data are the ones that are nationally based. Nothing on manufacturers there. Will check out your other suggestions.
RT @khalafroula: So many great entries for the FT Business Book of the year 2022 and a fabulous shortlist. Finally we have the winner: C…
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