ADAM TOOZE

In 1985 the US forced Japan to accept a 50% revaluatin of the Yen, a boom and bust ensued followed by lost decades.… https://t.co/brR5vSzqXT

"As big as its world-leading car market is, China has decided that 486 aspiring electric-vehicle companies are too… https://t.co/SQKsjDl11Z

Contrary to predictions, global unemployment is falling towards levels not seen since the 1980s sparking anxieties… https://t.co/4JL5pguAFh

“lights-off factories” – Foxconn’s name for massively automated factories with a minimum of human labour. Interesti… https://t.co/nwWDyQSa8T

The shift v. labour: Hard to exaggerate the significance of this trend: Since 1970 there has been a 40 percent fall… https://t.co/qvmcZ5KUXw

I don’t agree with everything @OwenJones84 says or writes – far from it in fact – but this is absolutely bang-on. A… https://t.co/foiHsXl9ke

Susan Strange, analyste précoce de l’instabilité financière (@ChrisChavagneux) https://t.co/PwYyDkY7VV via @AlterEco_

“It is nearly impossible to replicate the ecosystem we have in China quickly. The first problem is that there is no… https://t.co/jhGC4rZYAU

"Klotzen – nicht kleckern.” Typed this famous maxim of operational art into google and out popped this 1951 review… https://t.co/66jDDGV2OL

You can't get Russian newspapers' Ivan Golunov solidarity front pages for love or money in Moscow today. Some peopl… https://t.co/LazQAvJyRz

Germany’s approaches to exiting coal AND eurozone reform are characterized by an incremental “realism” and “pragmat… https://t.co/UPReWgtrDO

The shale oil/gas basins of the US whose expansion is currently scheduled to derail any possible decarbonization ef… https://t.co/0mU1SoGjnq

Does the gap btw environmental rhetoric and reality gape wider anywhere than in Germany on coal and climate change?… https://t.co/qri6iYJdW9

A past future? Share of nuclear power in electricity generation across advanced and developing economies. From an… https://t.co/8b0PrKfhuP

I did a column on Europe's (and Germany’s) coal problem. Thanks due to @sandbagorguk @CANEurope for their excellent… https://t.co/oWBrwNGKKp

Zimbabwe’s Real-Time Gross-Settlement Dollars, aka rtgs-dollars or “zollars” are plunging in value: typically infor… https://t.co/SpRngXdQag

No future: working-age population of rural Eastern Germany faces steep decline. These are also some of the areas wi… https://t.co/Twq9LUCYEF

The nuclear fade is driven by economics. #Flamanville and #Hinkley Point have done more damage to the industry’s p… https://t.co/ery4X9ghLC

A past future? In advanced economies today nuclear is still the largest low carbon source of electricity.… https://t.co/FAXzBqTEaz

How central bank bond purchases have been skewed towards carbon-intensive sectors. In this case ECB corporate secto… https://t.co/pRiyBhvIQQ

France and Norway are the major contributors of climate finance for highly exposed Caribbean states. @SEIresearch… https://t.co/TzFxnx7DQE

OK so if the gender breakdown of PhDs didn't surprise you, how about this one instead. As Marion Fourcade has argue… https://t.co/3aSKtJPEkl

Logistics, logistics, logistics. Look at how involved supply was. https://t.co/5xJaQGeWfZ

The Fed "is coming round to the view that it can ignore the inflationary risks from higher tariffs and cut policy r… https://t.co/SaPRfDl9eA

@THAToneil @JosephEStiglitz not even close!

"The climate crisis is our 3rd world war.” @JosephEStiglitz I understand the politics of world war analogies. But i… https://t.co/QvulqmscNh

Wisconsin taxpayers will not see a positive return on their $3bn tax subsidy to Foxconn until 2042. IF everything… https://t.co/8QH0aMUah3

These renewable energy projects underway in 2016 were designed to reduce the carbon footprint of the US military, o… https://t.co/rDSp3tvcgn

“Site selectors”: America’s lack of rules against local subsidies to inward investors pits states against each othe… https://t.co/4qrgh2LeWd

Our world. Euro-American links are important, but North America predominates. By value imports of vehicles from Mex… https://t.co/OZ4oNoUHmZ

@adam_tooze Chapter 84 of the Harmonized Schedule (tariff classifications) covers everything from nuclear reactors… https://t.co/UNDtqPNxrl

You dont get a meaningful view of Mexican vehicle industry if you start analysis in cyclical low of 2009. Long-term… https://t.co/shgrzDhdUD

Can anyone elucidate the importance of "nuclear reactors" to Mexican-American trade. This has got to be some weird… https://t.co/YCfkkXIGBq

Since 2008 EM ex-China have been relying on extensive growth: capital accumulation and labour mobilization not TFP.… https://t.co/PWCRSM1t54

If there is a productivity problem in AE, there is certainly one in EM ex-China too. @IIF via @SoberLook