ADAM TOOZE

An important reason why smallpox could be eradicated was that the vaccine was freeze dried and therefore independen… https://t.co/zYT412ramD

The boom & bust of Europe’s banking system created a spike in cross border banking claims, but, either way, as for… https://t.co/muBi18v6BL

Lira plunges: "Simsek was deputy prime minister, & the last man standing from a group of politicians who’ve been tr… https://t.co/FBKElh4gNy

Deglobalization of finance is confined basically to European megabanks shrinking their foreign operations. Great pa… https://t.co/AKVUFOSrVU

Whilst the balance of the world economy has dramatically shifted, the share of global GDP anchored to $ is as high… https://t.co/z31Bk47kK5

The surge in US car and parts imports from Mexico since the financial crisis is remarkable. Tripling of value to dw… https://t.co/i1WUZs6Xx8

“You are actually discrediting them and undermining their sovereignty, we expect you to be more polite” – OPEC’s re… https://t.co/ar5sdcFZBF

Three largest memory-chip makers Samsung, Micron Technology Inc. and SK Hynix Inc. face allegations that they rigge… https://t.co/rOQwJfJcty

Great data on the career destinations of 8500 PhD historians. https://t.co/fUGVOqZAed

New scholarship rightly celebrates the pre-1980s “Keynesianism” as a golden age, but this lit has a tendency to ass… https://t.co/VNjVh3UOIR

"Berlin is littered with shelved reports on macroeconomic imbalances.” @EuroBriefing takes up questions of Europe’s… https://t.co/GI7gcwqlxF

BlackRock and Citi announce plans to build hedge funds and alternative investment services out fo Paris. They love… https://t.co/zwcGv9jdfp

Chinese monetary policy is multi-instrument: interest rates, reserve requirements, lending goals, capital controls.… https://t.co/Ge196FJEVC

Recent easing of PBoC policy after period of contraction indicates that Chinese monetary policy still operates unde… https://t.co/1jdGDsTzJ2

When China was threatened with crisis in 2015-6 gov paid “slum dwellers” $1 trn in subsidies to buy vacant new prop… https://t.co/EiW8YlwlUH

Target2 imbalances again: we are all clear aren’t we that these are not unpaid import bills. German “claims" corres… https://t.co/ksnzPw9cL6

This isn’t 2015/2016! @gavyndavies gives reassuring take on the current balance of the Chinese economy. Growth look… https://t.co/Vhm41t0Wk2

Leveling off of remittance flows to the Philippines puts pressure on fragile balance of payments. When peso devalue… https://t.co/WQsuxjODmq

Collapsing cost of computers and the decline of routine jobs in the US. Frm paper by Frey, Berger, Chen (2018)… https://t.co/ZcDe0dPiSm

Yes: the post-2008 eurozone crisis has broadly screwed the Southern European poor, but has had differential effects… https://t.co/muBy3EhnAW

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How US imports and exports have moved together since independence. Don’t take this the wrong way, but, on this metr… https://t.co/BQrvr51Flg

@unixterminal @DEHEdgerton Nhs is one of cheapest health systems around!

Dualism isn’t quite the word, but the dispersion of productivity across the UK economy is dramatic.… https://t.co/nQwvdFhlzN

China’s growth plans envision the population and economy organized around 19 huge urban clusters, accounting for 20… https://t.co/JeOsGAwzHl

When was the UK welfare state born? In the early 1950s the share of defense in UK public spending matched that on N… https://t.co/EUmS5Woi3q

"The chancellery in Berlin is like an insurance firm with an in-house history faculty: an overriding caution mingle… https://t.co/5nJtEETQp8

These 29 companies account for 30% of all the wealth generated in stockmarket by all listed shares in the US since… https://t.co/67RPOClWVI

"Economists at Goldman Sachs predict that every percentage-point increase in labor-cost inflation will drag down S&… https://t.co/L5732JTC7r

Rather remarkable europewide media effort to out Blackrock as "the company that owns the world”.… https://t.co/nrRRRIBMSq

The shifting identification of the “silent generation” have a huge impact on the demographics of support for the De… https://t.co/68KuMfqAoo

Multi-front confrontation: what are the odds under current circumstances that Beijing will follow US demand to slas… https://t.co/HyIYyZMqV2