ADAM TOOZE

The EU’s merchandise trade surplus is largely offset by its very large import bill for oil and petroleum.… https://t.co/LUYzqKvw74

Black Country: map of intensity of coal use across Britain from the 1907 census of production. One for @DEHEdgerton… https://t.co/bYq6Ci5Btz

Germany’s blue-collar right-wing disturbs the DGB: In Bavaria’s Landtag elections 14.5% trade union members voted… https://t.co/Qwb3gvlsdh

(TH): Kritik an #HartzIV kommt ein wenig weiter in der Politik an. Dank Ausdauer Verbände, Initiativen, Betroffene… https://t.co/Xkh0JvIS84

The balance of global GDP has irrevocably shifted to the EM. But the expansion of dollar-borrowing has "effectively… https://t.co/ZHQyRar2sm

@adam_tooze @NickCohen4 @bfcarlson I visited that same museum in October and had similar thoughts. In one room ther… https://t.co/XAW2bYM7oV

This thread by @bfcarlson on politics of Chinese art exhibitions is FANTASTiC. https://t.co/q3LCOQ9ize

"British history is one of radical discontinuity, and not quite what it is supposed to be.” @DEHEdgerton shreds the… https://t.co/6yI7tvFxnx

Imagine if the EU had truly common embassy and consular service, it could be present in every major city in the US.… https://t.co/VIJO7sMdNT

And if I might add another to this #twitterstorians conversation look at the fantastic piece by @DEHEdgerton in tod… https://t.co/dePiP8zFvN

The idea of deep continuity in British history is absurd. We’ve always been in flux Read this great piece by… https://t.co/iDhgZL3elq

Rough rule of thumb as to the orders of magnitude of our extraordinary world: global population grows by 80 m peopl… https://t.co/rYyB0i1KjY

Are Danish embassies particularly swanky? Certainly its spending per capita on its diplomatic missions is the highe… https://t.co/VPJMpXmQhr

The price of sovereignty: There are half a million Germans for every one of its embassies v. 18,000 Maltese. Diplom… https://t.co/i30g3sXoaO

VW’s next five year Investment plan raises commitment to E-mobility and digital to 44bn euro from 34bn in last plan… https://t.co/jl3PllMwtc

@ggargiulo3 @Frances_Coppola I understand that the economists understand their limitations. But I doubt the politic… https://t.co/q9o121pR1s

One of the difficulties in strong-arming Italy by EU means alone is that it is a net contributor EVEN to common ag… https://t.co/I9r3HQXmPg

@weltfuchs for excerpting tomorrow!

"Mattis has studied the early 19th-century military theorist Carl von Clausewitz, who argues that the best victorie… https://t.co/pZqpLziqE3

@jjkirton @g7_rg @g20org @GloGovProj @caitebyrne @TristenNaylor @brittaneywarren The late 1970s G7 agenda is mind-b… https://t.co/z5TfhIHxFa

The fact that Common Agricultural Policy still constitutes 45% of EU spending ought to be an embarrassment! But thi… https://t.co/LXPi365TbK

Hard to exaggerate how excellent is the coverage of the Chess championship by “Jerry” of chessnetwork… https://t.co/jAAjepot3v

More than 20,000 people are based at the US Army’s Aberdeen Proving Ground, a 72,000-acre research complex. That is… https://t.co/0kM8WQZ2S4

Eurozone’s unprecedentedly large trade surplus has been widely commented on. In 2011-12 recession it was only drive… https://t.co/rXFtIJrjuS

Rebuid the Bundeswehr, but how? Von der Leyen wants incentives for recruitment. Finance Minister Scholz wants longe… https://t.co/LADgXNhYiN

Investing in Germany: Bundesbahn management are asking for doubling of maintenance and repair budget from Berlin to… https://t.co/mz1UH6ol2L

0\ I am starting a new, possibly never-ending, thread on history of mostly-economic thought places in Berlin. I als… https://t.co/Z77df5su0j

ZAG – the Zentral Arbeitsgemeinschaft agreement signed between Stinnes and Legien, employers and TU on 15 November… https://t.co/UoWror1b3X

Given diminishing marginal returns to research funding would it not make sense to try to spend research resources m… https://t.co/BHZfZVlnAx

How Keynes diversified the endowment portfolio of King’s College out of real estate, making him one of the earliest… https://t.co/aQxESTVCGV

In 2017, polls found that almost 90% of Americans did not know that there was a scientific consensus on global warm… https://t.co/kQINQcACDW

The stagnation in global trade as share of GDP results from 3 divergent trends: European trade (also with ROW) cont… https://t.co/ezJvyVhhAG

In 1989 at time of Tienanmen Square massacre China’s economy made up 4% of global GDP. Today its share is 19% and r… https://t.co/u7nzQQdqyv

Excellent piece by @laraseligman on the attrition of civilian competence authority and morale in the Office of the… https://t.co/uBS6DZvOW7

After 15 years, is it possible to launch a reasoned discussion about Germany’s scanty and punitive Hartz IV “safety… https://t.co/7bbDOaPgdv