ADAM TOOZE

What is middle class America? Fascinating review of the rather varied definitions adopted by recent social science… https://t.co/W5fBvpnMVI

The share of American workers and job applicants testing positive for illicit drugs came down sharply in the 1990s… https://t.co/N8xJUBBLCB

Oil, steel, aluminum, nickel, palladium, EM debt and currencies … all markets recently disrupted by US political ri… https://t.co/iso5iNqvpR

The Palo Seco power plant for San Juan is representative of decades of underinvestment and repair in Puerto Rico’s… https://t.co/J7PggFQPeY

“Green gold”? How NAFTA unleashed the Mexican avocado boom that has helped to fuel gang violence in Michoacan state… https://t.co/gWqBj3XhW2

@an10nev @johnauthers yup. that or some variant on it has been the Fed position back to taper tantrum in 2013.

“(t)here is no longer any “Washington Consensus” in Washington itself.” To measure depth of the divides… https://t.co/vdaH3TgLfl

In the EM jitters @johnauthers argues that we are seeing evidence for the power of a global credit cycle: emerging… https://t.co/hE9YFpbhhU

If the EU goes through with the reallocation of its budget the bonanza for East Europe cohesion funding is over.… https://t.co/Q9wnCYTlsK

"a company might only have issued one stock, but dozens of unique bonds. there are only 43,000 stocks in the world,… https://t.co/B8mhSuBWR7

Katsushika Hokusai Vent du sud par temps clair, de la série Trente-six vues du mont Fuji (Fugaku sanjûrokkei), c. 1… https://t.co/JJwP32igXx

The Sino-American tech war cuts both ways: if the US blocks deals, Chinese regulators can too! Toshiba’s sale of it… https://t.co/kJhlreIayT

Trump administration trade negotiators are pushing to raise autoworker wages in Mexico to minimum of $16 v. $8 curr… https://t.co/uqDhGXUbRy

A subcontinent as retail battleground: can Walmart beat Amazon to set the standard for ecommerce in India?… https://t.co/kZ9WQTQvle

Percentage of measured GDP contributed by women – imagine what this would look like if unwaged housework counted!… https://t.co/LqIxVbXPLY

Grown in China: China is by far the world’s largest investor in agronomical research. China is also building a mass… https://t.co/E49DvVn2B8

We could go on pretending that nothing was happening and simply point to the coup and its aftermath, or we could re… https://t.co/4ohHFPAmih

“There’s not much wrong with Argentina that higher rates cannot fix, but there’s not much Turkey can do that won’t… https://t.co/kOKRDnbGSg

"For much of the past year walking into the grand building across from the White House that houses the US Chamber o… https://t.co/40RtEFcwkE

Fewer foreign students are receiving visas from the US. It could be a real closing off, or it could be the result o… https://t.co/LCGdoDxW0o

“The south has plenty of water, the north much less. If possible, the north should borrow a little.” Mao Zedong – C… https://t.co/jzabXkLT8p

“Will China widen its lead?” asked analyst Edison Lee. “If Nokia and Ericsson go out of business and it’s just Huaw… https://t.co/r67U37iGd3

"It is no exaggeration to say the future of China’s economy is threatened by lack of water.” China’s northern and c… https://t.co/bt8UQT5aFP

Shell’s floating LNG factory Prelude is the largest ship ever built, displacing as much as six aircraft carriers.… https://t.co/KLg0Tw5Ptm

Astonishingly, what remains of the French island empire gives it the claim to the 2nd largest Exclusive Economic Zo… https://t.co/7FFgLi4S1j

The rich-to-poor used clothes trade was once a $4bn business, now major East African importers have announced that… https://t.co/cZV3ghl0kU

Island strategy: we talk a lot about the S. China, islands and EEZ’s, but look at how the remnants of the French Em… https://t.co/ASm6EDkvup

Three-year postdoctoral fellowship in Global Intellectual History @FU_Berlin starting Sep 1:… https://t.co/zDKSlXIlcv

On reading Das Kapital for … oh, the last 43 years. Michael Heinrich giving us a taste of the Neue Marx Lektüre in… https://t.co/AUnZlRsSDA

Thrift shock: East Africa is the hub of the global used clothes market and Rwandan effort to shut out US imports ha… https://t.co/klB2GCW5XQ

En détresse: French overseas department of Mayotte has lowest per capita income in EU at $10.6k, 84 % of pop live b… https://t.co/rcw2A2VZR5