ADAM TOOZE

Female labour market participation is still in top 1/3 of OECD, but it has not increased since 2007 v entire rest o… https://t.co/L6N1YODKXC

Xi has vowed to lift the last 70m rural Chinese living on less than $335 out of poverty. Isolated villages in inlan… https://t.co/1c3m4l2B2U

Allowing for aging, the employment-population ratio in both Italy and the United States was essentially unchanged b… https://t.co/3YVsq1SAcG

Corporate reconfigurations revolve around China: Heineken takes a 40 % stake in China’s largest brewery CR to gain… https://t.co/CYcvSDuAIe

The opioid epidemic is a disaster above all for White Americans who exposure to the crisis is more than twice that… https://t.co/m67pfId2MC

Back to reality: turns out there really never was a Juncker-Trump “deal”. France kept ag off the table, Trump buy A… https://t.co/gIQqmRXbfm

@ThinkAdvisor Can I just say that I took myself to be repeating what I take to be common sense!

This is amazing! Sweet potato has closely related names in Mexico and Indonesia, Peru and Maori. https://t.co/lbG0L7tlI9

You know who benefits from a Sino-American auto tariff war. Not BMW or Daimler who ship SUVs from the US, but Toyot… https://t.co/J41ennlkVv

The cows are dying: In face of terrible drought Southern Iraq is further destabilized by huge hit to its pastoral e… https://t.co/DUXfDIf0z3

Whilst China has One Belt One Road for Africa and Pakistan, Japan is planning a Sovereign Wealth Fund to invest in… https://t.co/j21Cd5xKcw

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The only thinker whose ideas truly frighten me is Charles Tilly.

Still kicking myself for missing the chance to drop the name wicksell on Newsnight. … im learning! I guess I was… https://t.co/cyELAQmIt8

@adam_tooze Natural rate of interest is a bit earlier than 1920s. Wicksell wrote about it in 1898 (Interest & Prices) @BBCNewsnight

Republican party rhetoric long cultivated popular nationalism whilst pursuing business globalism. Now it reaps the… https://t.co/Qi6yCKC6SU

The US Army has almost as many black women members as white women. Black women also make up disproportionately larg… https://t.co/cmAldBKOqk

US military became all volunteer in 1973, but size of forces did not shrink until the end of Cold War and advent of… https://t.co/zxzUTDGiif

The leverage in China’s real estate sector is outsized by global standards. A key area of concern in the regime’s d… https://t.co/2kDWbaamrC

@oneandonlymr0 @SoberLook @MoodysInvSvc @DEHEdgerton will advertise two dates in London and Edinburgh shortly.

Let history record that the UK, an economy and society built on coal, effectively ended its coal use in 2018 well a… https://t.co/c3nPOmxFHD

Cable news TV has an outsized presence in the political imaginary of the US, enhanced by Trump’s habits. But its au… https://t.co/PhIVyQA0Z4

The shifting skill profile of employment growth in the US since the 1980s is stark. In the last decade growth in hi… https://t.co/Bppzf6nePZ

"Students from China’s top universities are flouting government restrictions to support workers detained for trying… https://t.co/MIe0kD4jUy

Climate-change heat wave exposes legacies of World War II on the Elbe river … https://t.co/6VRgfy60im

The decade we almost stopped climate change: remarkable long read by Nathanie Rich on the politics and science of c… https://t.co/PWWWKCrZW1

“Trump’s attacking a world order of which Germany is the foremost beneficiary”, portraying Germany as a “post-migra… https://t.co/REdFz59S87

What do Tungsten, Gallium, Indium and Cobalt do in your phone? Fascinating piece by @hyweljones… https://t.co/0CWR5ayydB

Once upon a time, tech was a sector that generated healthy profits from small balance sheets. No longer. Tech inves… https://t.co/RUBUCBGzxP

The shock of 2008-2012 caused European banks to shift money into their US branches v. Japanese who continue to use… https://t.co/lboFKzrRKq

Btw 2007 and 2017 global dollar assets of Japanese banks increased 88 % v. 42% decline in balance sheets European b… https://t.co/Wi20Z2prSM

The relationship btw yield curve inversion and recessions may look like a natural relationship but it in fact persi… https://t.co/TNxoqvArjH

Still more than a hundred people dying every hour – more than from malaria, ebola, dengue and yellow fever combined… https://t.co/c2pfbUVd7v

The success of containing the global AIDS pandemic with ARV treatment is remarkable, but it still only reaches 21.7… https://t.co/cQcsUlX1rh