ADAM TOOZE

Red-Green-Red squeaks to a majority in Brandenburg. Important and surprising German state election result should no… https://t.co/htU4EakaFm

@adam_tooze @davidfickling This is because the main thing that is carried by rail in China is coal. Rail freight vo… https://t.co/xdWLuDI72I

China’s high tech passenger rail service attracts a lot of attention. But its freight system has experienced less s… https://t.co/MF1pEirovB

It takes about 15 g of diesel to move 1 metric ton of freight 1 km along U.S. railways v. a freight ship which cons…

Investment of c. $6 trn is needed to build the infrastructure that electric cars need such as charging stations and… https://t.co/yQZiVtBa89

Malaysia deserves more attention as a remarkable growth story, catapulting it to a similar level of per capita inco… https://t.co/iJCbuquBjy

It’s hardly an accident that the traffic jams in Tehran, Bangkok, Ho Chi Minh City and Jakarta have become so legen… https://t.co/1815sqQ2K5

Global Gridlock Los Angeles is the only city in the U.S. or Western Europe to make it into the top 15 most-congeste… https://t.co/ZVTSGVLNQw

China has called on local government to stimulate the car market. But reaction is uncertain. for reasons of congest… https://t.co/mZYXIgJgSt

In early 2000s non-banks took lead in US business lending and despite 2008 they have not given it up! @yardeni via… https://t.co/m8p8mvmymx

The price of bulk Rieseling in France has surged by 75% since 2008. https://t.co/Fs71YCfwor

If on Skye, the museum at Armadale castle on the Kingdom of the Isles, the Clan Donald and the Scotish history is H… https://t.co/jAxbiSV1pg

The Irish potato famine of the 1840s is the stuff of legend. But it was a crop failure that blighted much of Europe… https://t.co/xXpsJb8zDp

Yield-chasing Japanese retail investors have piled into … of all things … turkish lira. It is a trade that could ea… https://t.co/0WWUPknlfC

The poverty of education even for prime age men in the Sahel region is remarkable. https://t.co/LYAPkKJMY9 via… https://t.co/DnoimTSwRf

Oh! Apparently part of the WW2 economics doc has made Pick of the Week on Radio 4 this evening at 18.15. Which is e… https://t.co/HxDovIbzuW

The contraction of China’s credit impulse in 2018-9 is far more severe than that suffered in 2008-9 or 2015-6.… https://t.co/9lIa63lDha

By 2100 1/2 of babies born worldwide are expected to be born in Africa. Nigeria is expected to have 864 million bir… https://t.co/GtZ8TImFiU

In the early 2000s Poland’s unemployment rate was over 20%. Today it is 1/4 of that. The fall since 2013 has been r… https://t.co/cyInTNEk5f

You might enjoy this @Intetyst by @williamnhutton on the UK constitutional crisis. https://t.co/UbJMidC2N9

From 2007 to 2017, France’s Vineyard Area shrank by almost 80,000 hectares and has moved to the north-east. Massive… https://t.co/o85g0d0vQQ

Amazing range in average vineyard yields in France. Champagne not only has the most expensive grapes, it also has t… https://t.co/BtSXVUkL9Z

RIP Immanuel Wallerstein, one of the great intellectuals of our era, a social theorist who lived a deep commitment… https://t.co/r6sNKTNZ6j

@Intetyst @APHClarkson @williamnhutton Dear @Intetyst Not posing the monarchy question was simply a way of avoiding… https://t.co/5q6I2RKvx8

Fascinating data that corrects simple PPP GDP per capita numbers. https://t.co/2CvPKEvnCW

Why one of these two figures is actually a head of state and why that matters. With h/t to @APHClarkson &… https://t.co/ReGO69iYqU

Where is a politician when you need one? The Anglo-Italian comparison makes it painfully obvious why Britain’s cons… https://t.co/e3nhZDxOUX

Which sign will win? @GChamedes study of the Vatican’s international political activity and its anti-communist camp… https://t.co/ipC4BMeuLm

Prof David Howarth of Cambridge digs DEEP into the toolbox in his discussion of options for the UK parliament to re… https://t.co/1bIgW37hUW

This by @JAGrant on the constitutional crisis in the UK triggered by Johnson’s attempt to prorogue parliament and f… https://t.co/TmHdGKzqA3