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While everyone claims "China is colonizing Africa", most are unaware that France has controlled the monetary policy… https://t.co/NkGQOEi15J

This volume looks really interesting: Green Capitalism? Business and the Environment in the Twentieth Century: incl… https://t.co/eEFdefqcxK

Patent for Ur six-pack plastic holder 1957: Ougljesa Jules Poupitch “apertured sheet or web of resilient stretchabl… https://t.co/2yF1tCUOVT

The first appearance of the phrase “six-pack” with regards to beer in the Chicago Tribune is a 1952 ad for Budweise… https://t.co/o7fWWPCG96

It’s a just a jump to the left, and a twist to the right! A wire mesh or “chicken wire” making machine! https://t.co/H3VeDeJips

@BartvanHorck thank you! happy new year. A

Chris Clark’s Time and Power (appearing in english in 2019 with @PrincetonUPress) comes recommended by @DIEZEIT… https://t.co/dFZWy819Ss

Bagram air base, America’s largest facility in war in Afghanistan, generates 70t of trash per day (sic). Used to be… https://t.co/LC5fVkBQKA

Engines of an early 20th century ocean liner like Titanic burned 600 tons of coal per day. 176 men worked around th… https://t.co/vcmsbhgxu8

The dualism in Europe’s labour markets is stark between inside workers who enjoy good protections and those on non-… https://t.co/VW7QVDUDwK

Is it a geopolitical chess piece, a mobile power source, or a “Chernoby on ice”? – Russia’s Siberia-bound nuclear b… https://t.co/umVzsKOx0o

China’s private debt bubble is the biggest in the history of capitalism. https://t.co/jbi6YGucXj @ProfSteveKeen https://t.co/mqqu2iAq8T

THE EUROPEAN COMMISSION WANTS TO BUILD A STRONG BATTERY INDUSTRY THAT CAN COMPETE WITH ASIA, BUT HAS IT ENTERED THE… https://t.co/4UYcnFJ8O8

In testimony to Senate Armed Services Cttee, Navy Sec R. Spencer announced rewrite of US Arctic strategy. Asked why… https://t.co/Ul91GisoVa

Poverty rates rose for all EU workers but particularly for those on temporary contracts. And the labour market is p… https://t.co/eiO5vVUbc4

CONGRATULATIONS to @srinathraghava3 on being picked by Ramachandra Guha for this list of up and coming Indian intel… https://t.co/OEEAiE9CTT

“Now that China is fighting this trade war with the US, we’ve been killed by state policy,” on the plight of jobsee… https://t.co/p3EUI3Ihep

In 2013 the Ndrangheta mafia based in Calabria was estimated to have a turnover of €53bn study by @Demoskopika clai… https://t.co/qtIexhVQKd

Debt brake in action: Bremen and Schleswig-Holstein are last German states to be borrowing at all. After 2020 no ne… https://t.co/dKoerNoeUt

Since 2000 China has built 70% of the new coal fired power generation capacity added globally.… https://t.co/T3FNsoWA8D

100 years ago Woodrow Wilson arrives in the UK as part of his triumphant European tour en route to Versailles. It w… https://t.co/u1bHQ9hTVl

The giant Kuibyshev hydro powerstation on the Volga that began operating in 1955 after crash construction program w… https://t.co/9qMnKpfTD2

Stalinist collectivization in the 1930s was sweeping in scope, but the Great Stalin Plan for the Transformation of… https://t.co/OfHnBlHa9S

Roger Owen = one of reasons why economic history of Egypt is so damn good! RIP. A History of the Middle East Econom… https://t.co/jodMhkLILp

Josephon’s Industrialized Nature and the idea of “brute force technologies” is fascinating about the Cold War compe… https://t.co/ylQEyc9WqD

America Aviation Clothing Board est September 1917 distributed the original aviation jacket = first to adopt the zi… https://t.co/KQshaLyter

ronds-points: questions on the metaphysics of the traffic roundabout raised by france’s gilets jaunes protests. Dem… https://t.co/ffLbnbmwVu

I have been thinking about this as well. Trump never understood the political risk he was taking claiming ‘ownershi… https://t.co/SiOJLXCULO

In 2017 the global market for zippers was worth c. $13bn. 40% of production is controlled by one Japanese firm YKK.… https://t.co/demLEGjnSN

Stagnating China car market -> serious overcapacity issues. China now has enough factories to build 43 million cars… https://t.co/MElPYfn2zi

William Phelps Eno’s redesigned Columbus circle in NYC of 1905 was the first modern traffic roundabout to implement… https://t.co/M00sMmJHeW

Delayed payment of wages continues to be a major issue for workers in former Soviet bloc Europe including members o… https://t.co/NeI73BNZdZ

Good knock about boxing day fun from the econosphere … https://t.co/PMs8FrNUeB

Visionary urbanist Eugène Hénard (1843-1923) was one of the fathers of the modern roundabout.… https://t.co/6XGeTiEVG6