ADAM TOOZE

In 2015 sanctions on Russia cut trade by $114bn according to @kielinstitute. Russia suffered 61 %. EU took $40bn hi… https://t.co/n4lYZhiG2H

Dennis Showalter’s The Wars of German Unification – what a fantastic account of the conflicts around Prussian army… https://t.co/kiLKecADJi

European revolutionary soldier: Wilhelm Rüstow, Prussian lieutenant who went over to revolution in 1848, sentenced… https://t.co/iYuYk621wx

Where inventors grow up in the US: patent rates by childhood commuting zone Bell, Chetty, Jaravel, Petkova van Reen… https://t.co/0dFbA0Ewuv

Standardizing for math scores kids from high income backgrounds are much more likely to file patents NBER Working P… https://t.co/GfRWgehhgJ

End of a thousand year Empire: final page of abdication notice by last Holy Roman Emperor Franz II 6 August 1806 at… https://t.co/OHnEmfgCY0

Lost Einsteins: The myth of the inventor is key to America’s ruling rags to riches ideology. But whether you ever f… https://t.co/6K2JC29jiP

The better off go to College the poor don’t -> link between college attendance rates and parental income rank in th… https://t.co/0hL54zovUv

Given its global extent, decline in labour share unlikely to be explicable by way of national stories. Technologica… https://t.co/5d1j8jE7oL

Who are the inventors? Folks from families in the top 1 % file patents at rates 10times those who come from median… https://t.co/y9HbEr1SVS

It took decades of tinkering to perfect but a John Deere cotton stripper is classic example of slow motion radical… https://t.co/ljrkYao2eb

Home ownership rates vary very considerably across capitalist democracies with the US and UK close to bottom w/t… https://t.co/VL7fi5XMg5

Centerist, Christian or everything to the right of the left? The argument over the future of Germany’s CDU and Merk… https://t.co/OIE0SFXvfJ

21st century US manufacturing data are dominated by two stories: the shocking deceleration after 2001 and the remar… https://t.co/GdbbbH8Twg

Fascinating data from @TheEconomist on extent of disadvantage suffered by Dalits (16.6%) and Advasis (9%) of India’… https://t.co/WJUTacfdlo

The global dominance of E Asian shipyards is remarkable – S Korea, Japan and China are the only significant global… https://t.co/C2nGLf0drP

Maize destroying army worm from US was first spotted in Nigeria In January 2016 it has now spread across African co… https://t.co/fgPHjWr1O5

Tendency of Trump security policy to blur the line between economics and geopolitics worries @AdamPosen "in world… https://t.co/RFxPhyH6z9

Today in 1940 Manstein buttonholed Hitler over cocktails to sell him the Sichelschnitt plan for the invasion of Fra… https://t.co/Q5Af0ta1I4

The Post-American world economy – @AdamPosen excellent in @ForeignAffairs US Strategic posture: "breaks down wall b… https://t.co/IdfMr8U6sN

There are weird anomalies in BEA output figures for US computing industry. Why does the quality adjusted price inde… https://t.co/yuPagbiVEz

Reno Tahoe Industrial Center – 104,000 acre tech/industrial park spawned by a brothel owner In Nevada is perhaps th… https://t.co/BgJZ9xrEfK

Its unprecedented for the US to be forecasting a deficit of its current scale given the relatively healthy state of… https://t.co/TXQhTSolhE

Germany’s gaping current account surplus is driven by both swing of gov account from deficit to surplus and even la… https://t.co/OfDO5pRFkp

"Eine Riesenphotographie, die auf einer kanadischen Kriegsbilderausstellung zu sehen ist:", in: Berliner Illustrirt… https://t.co/rsycE83oD1

Just 15 of the biggest ships emit more oxides of nitrogen and sulphur than all of the world's cars put together https://t.co/WuJGpSyatb

The US is holding the WTO hostage. But for what? Nice summary of post-Davos perplexity from @HeathaT @eshelouise… https://t.co/fe2gULwrmW

Forgotten London: 3-masted ship 'Penang' in Millwall docks looms over Totnes Cottages on the Barnfield Estate. 1932… https://t.co/qOgagCfewf

Despite Republican fiscal splurge bond vigilantes refuse to show up. @M_C_Klein excellent as ever on why that sugge… https://t.co/nJYpfmUX7k

@1954swilliamson @ITIFdc check out the paper linked. It has to do with the scale of the adjustment made for tech change.

EM forex fixed income holdings provided a crucial buffer during 2014-2015 selloff @OxfordEconomics… https://t.co/b9UhL8Blaf