ADAM TOOZE

You discover fun things on Wikipedia, like Andre Gunder Frank's dissertation at U of Chicago was on Ukrainian agric… https://t.co/uHFoqz3M92

The spread of literacy and literature was highly uneven across Europe 1300-1799. Data from de Pleijt and Van Zande… https://t.co/GKJXK20YPj

1650 is the breakpoint for GDP per capita: Six centuries of British economic growth. Latest estimates by Crafts and… https://t.co/9CNW4Yspx1

Looking for something else on the Osprey website and had a look at the recently published stuff. Can’t help but fee… https://t.co/5tNK7yyxQO

Fascinated by this interview with Habermas 7 November 2008 on his return from Yale where he’d been lecturing on pos… https://t.co/oIGlFNNhwB

Amongst risks factors globally malnutrition and inadequate clean water now ranks surprisingly low. Talk about risk… https://t.co/Orm88rsl3J

The zone of dust, sand, salt, smoke and particulate pollution extends across sub-Saharan Africa to Asia.… https://t.co/QdzrZ6ZdaV

How human capital breaks down by gender, region and income level. There are gender disparities everywhere but it is… https://t.co/ZQeyamkvgC

Twentieth century "demographic transitions” were astonishingly rapid – For fertility to fall from 6 to 3 children p… https://t.co/Bs1DjwlWsr

Afropessimism? Estimates of regional trends in wealth per capita show alarming disparities between Sub-Saharan Afri… https://t.co/J1MTEBBjrO

Whereas the funding of America’s twin deficits (trade and budget) used to be simple – foreign official reserve mana… https://t.co/kC0GA9Zvrn

Watching stock price movements in Zuckerberg’s "online-surveillance and advertising group” – I’m really enjoying th… https://t.co/46bVKz848F

Only one Chinese photographer among WPP nominees this year, but it's a beautiful one. Two elderly brothers glued to… https://t.co/AAh6KsX13n

After the elephant curve we have the SHARK GRAPH, US wealth inequality embellished by @FD at @FTAlphaville… https://t.co/StkdX2B4M4

Watching stock price movements in Zuckerberg’s "online-surveillance and advertising group” – I’m really enjoying th… https://t.co/yT50KJMaQJ

Travails of US Steel are a storm in a teacup, this is not! Btw 2000 and 2013 China’s growth (and a bit in other EM)… https://t.co/enrQWc6EdG

Puzzled that Italian bond markets are not reacting more nervously to political events. ECB purchases and shrinking… https://t.co/BTyl59h452

The volume of unpaid domestic labour is huge and the imbalances are no less so. Obvious but impressive when mapped… https://t.co/Yksig5PlxF

National fossil fuel wealth with per capita estimates. Striking how large the estimate for China is and how close i… https://t.co/akf0Pyatfw

Read an extract from our next title, Economic Science Fictions, in latest @RedPeppermag https://t.co/8gk5wBZexq ….… https://t.co/KlVA7Fm0Fk

The convergence of EM societies like Tunisia to low fertility regime is remarkable. @MaxRoser @OurWorldInData… https://t.co/YKVZ32hUzj

Afropessimism? Estimates of regional trends in wealth per capita show alarming disparities between Sub-Saharan Afri… https://t.co/9JQp6L4FjN

@Noahpinion wow … a grim scenario indeed. But for that you would need crisis-induced exchange controls (tariffs don… https://t.co/r7XSaWxP6Z

Twentieth century "demographic transitions” were astonishingly rapid – For fertility to fall from 6 to 3 children p… https://t.co/5eGWKYSUgD

The great flywheel of household wealth is spinning again in the US economy, driving growth and inequality. Housing… https://t.co/fGOHlb0dUj

Tariffs for steel and aluminum makers make for photoshoots, but they are irrelevant to US capitalism. They generate… https://t.co/DVqHpiQaes

"If I may but live to lead our armies in such a war, the devil may come afterward and fetch away my old carcass.” H… https://t.co/tzfzi3lZpG

Americans are no cashing out home equity for consumptive purposes to the same degree that they were before the cris… https://t.co/vI9AgGKw8c

This should be fun! Archives of the group that evaluated the American superpower’s weapons systems are about to be… https://t.co/srFgw0aacu