ADAM TOOZE

Sisi’s regime in Egypt is building a giant new capital in the desert. It doesn’t yet have a name. But ti is equippe… https://t.co/xXW0vfh6Cq

Indian broadband internet subscriptions in India have exploded from 125m to 512m in only 3 years. It is a fiercely… https://t.co/P34tPGJQ5b

Fabulous report on the history and vicissitudes of China’s bicycle industry from French import, to bicycle nation,… https://t.co/2rcjfeNMOS

Since 2008 Greece’s gdp per capita performance is worse than that of Ukraine and Sudan. Cyprus and Italy have falle… https://t.co/WTOhDZ9sFl

Strange to find Max Weber’s "Politics as a Vocation” discussed in @TheEconomist. They overestimate his realism and… https://t.co/MsQLnqacSM

The divergent returns to exceptional high school entry qualifications produced in the UK by different universities… https://t.co/JsbS8WJYpd

The divergent orientation of students and courses cross the hierarchy of UK universities is becoming increasingly s… https://t.co/buU28HCoWt

In the years of Thatcher and Reagan there were parallels in development of US and UK inequality. But thereafter one… https://t.co/YRh5pYxAvw

India’s "informal economy, accounts for nine in ten jobs and perhaps 45% of gdP”. It makes official economic statis… https://t.co/5KjOmm4nxK

Chinese reported happiness plunged in early 2000s as unemployment surged as part of SOE restructuring and iron rice… https://t.co/4TYYOP583Z

Despite its spectacular economic success China ranks 86th in world happiness rankings. If one takes intertemporal c… https://t.co/XfkTjYSiIy

Canada Pension Plan Investment Board (cppib), manages C$454bn in pension funds for 20m of Canada’s citizens. It doe… https://t.co/aSwBWVsnfZ

The first Chinese translation of US declaration of independence in 1901 rendered “life, liberty and pursuit of happ… https://t.co/LXvW6jdrmd

The map of Libya’s Western oil infrastructure helps to explain why conflict is spreading North South from Tripoli a… https://t.co/ksACY3Yoa7

At Anaklia Georgia on the eastern End of Black Sea, Georgian European, American and AIIB money is constructing a po… https://t.co/2WA7NulUcV

In 2007 the big 3 US banks held 20% of deposits. Now they have 32%. Bigger regionals formed through mergers should… https://t.co/WhNs0nRPgV

Reduction in barriers to occupational choice facing women & blacks in US can explain 15 to 20 % of aggregate wage g… https://t.co/fO5BCpSzsy

BHP finds that mixed gender mining teams are far more punctual, easier on equipment and half as dangerous. Fascinat… https://t.co/F1K3YaXPt5

The recovery (under foreign ownership and management) of the UK as a car assembly location after the crisis of the… https://t.co/mY9VK98bOF

On the “Ifo clock”, the German economy is trundling through the slowdown towards the recession quadrant, Citi shows. https://t.co/CGSsZ9h0K2

Campaign against Nonsense Output Gaps (CANOO): the Euro periphery has had to rely on internal deval – price & wage… https://t.co/yp2h06hnJw

good. would be great if it continued to move, and was near balance in 2019 (if not in a small deficit) while Germa… https://t.co/EQzoQArR9B

@adam_tooze @AmyKazmin @sdbernard Striking difference in pollution levels between China's & India's coal thermal pl… https://t.co/BGMZX0COxp

Driven by surging demand in China and India, Global lipstick sales are exploding. L’Oreal now sells more to Asia th… https://t.co/a1DuDgH0w3

Everyone wants Russia’s lethal S-400 AA system. But how to pay for it, given sanctions? India and Russia have appar… https://t.co/yoEQpgc8gi

As US blocks oil exports and China worries about getting its $50bn back, India has emerged as major buyer of Venezu… https://t.co/DVY28eiVXi

When Eurozone growth looked like it might be gaining some momentum back in 2017 it had a lot to do with export dema… https://t.co/J6olM84uIE

“When uncertainty rises, but demand is still robust, it makes sense for businesses to meet demand by expanding thei… https://t.co/G0VWkhnvDb

The track of US v. global Purchasing Managers Indices since 2009 is a really telling as to significance of slowdown… https://t.co/Vx6rkuzs2F

America’s economy in the 19th and early 20th century may have been the most dramatic growth engine ever seen, but i… https://t.co/I5YO40Dtcs

@YiorgosVa They are pretty much all linked. Anything in particular you are looking for?

Not to mention the history of capitalism folks … https://t.co/cUM7fXsGNH

Exactly 80 years ago today, almost 20,000 people attended a Nazi rally at New York City’s old Madison Square Garden… https://t.co/53zcJlAa7q

Compare the picture for Spain with the US, where core inflation is roughly where you would expect for current level… https://t.co/ajXw4KPrOR