ADAM TOOZE

Fascinating framing of the debate about China’s future in terms of de Tocqueville. https://t.co/jLraFoPYvE

Europ. Investment Banks Had Tough Quarter, Deutsche Bank Says … putting their own troubles in context http://t.co/F3xruh3Ihg

I thought for a second Hopper had painted Putin. https://t.co/RwJArrI1Ia

As if “currency war” was the point rather than the rhetorical cudgel with which conservatives beat QE https://t.co/EIa9njaEHs

The euro zone's two largest economies, #Germany and #France, grew by 0.4% and 0% respectively in April-June http://t.co/llXF3RMx1e

investment flow to em lower than in crisis. EM suffering first net outflow of capital since 1980s http://t.co/MyhI5JNvAK via @FT

more interesting than the alarming title suggests: interaction between low fee slum private schools and elite lycée https://t.co/NeKF39kzyL

Bloomberg weighs up EM slide against tiny uptick in US consumer sentiment and calls it 50/50 https://t.co/a0zVhLbPfD

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“If political parties were startups” … they would work like dogs, 99 % would fail, most would have one member etc etcnhttp://t.co/crOOlZphDE

hi Megan any idea when we might get you down to Columbia? No reply to email.

2000-2010/11 healthcare workers emigrating to OECD from countries with shortage of health workers increased by 80 %nhttp://t.co/6x7VkpFXzu

German Lab Min Nahles from the SPD-Left defends minimum wage as protecting refugees from exploitation http://t.co/uh51gjE8Xx via @faznet

FAZ happy to report Econ Advisry Councl member Schnabel criticizing Labour minister for defending min wage 4 refugeesnhttp://t.co/37TbQ2KkxC

Hans-Werner Sinn recommending that German minimum wage be cut to allow integration of refugees into labour market!nhttp://t.co/KgDjJX7urR

In a world of 59.5 m displaced people the ueber-wealthy EU receives less than 2 % as asylum applicants and it causes a crisis. Shameful.

MANTRA FOR THE DAY: history matters, but which history? https://t.co/WbVkkBQhMa

Title of FT’s new series: AMBITIOUS WEALTH …. https://t.co/reUm3vepTZ

The Landesbank saga. A useful reminder not to trust the stereotypes about "German" business efficiency. http://t.co/cSI5bsjwWt

In 2014 out of a global displaced person population of 59.5 m the EU received 600,000 asylum applications i.e. 1 %. https://t.co/YIyCncBf26

Of the 2 m Syrian refugees in Turkey only 260,000 are living in camps. The rest are fending for themselves. https://t.co/YIyCncBf26

Europe’s “crisis” has been triggered by 5 % of the Syrian refugee flow! There is clearly something wrong with Europe https://t.co/YIyCncBf26

And now the unstable emotional and moralistic cycle unfolds: refugees dubbed ungrateful for complaining about food. https://t.co/1QaUAbaaH1

Hannah Arendt on our human existence conditioned by a practical relationship to the world:

On the morning of Feb 13, 1960 the first French nuclear bomb exploded at Reggane in the Sahara. De Gaulle: “Hurrah for France!"

The rhetoric of modern expertise subordinates hermeneutics to logistics – "what does it mean?" to "how does it work?".

euro’s share of global reserves falls from 28 to 20.5 % 2009-2015 https://t.co/l4qW26FMrv

lagarde-ian of the galaxy … love the title https://t.co/RvYp1qsguz

Passing on a fortune isn’t as easy as it seems … how to prepare your heirs. https://t.co/dJnjLfFSVI