ADAM TOOZE

Remnants of infrastructural ambition – the steam locomotive graveyard at Uyuni Bolivia where salt eats away at earl… https://t.co/673O3C3zxM

How credit rationing hit! % of borrowers below credit score threshold for prime mortgages surged from 54 to 70 % 20… https://t.co/HuhJyTgANh

Revised Maddison data puts “Western offshoots” dominated by the US clearly ahead of Europe throughout their develop… https://t.co/WNbg24z7qv

The first Ostfront? Why is more not made of fact that in battles of 7 Years War that pitted Prussia v. Russia order… https://t.co/vG2q2Ulw2H

The post-2008 historiographical moment, (the return of the "history of capitalism,") has been important for showing… https://t.co/yklHDUwqaE

Revising Maddison and widening the gap between the US and the rest! This may be big news for long-run and wide-rang… https://t.co/tQS9TuowQG

Falling to the bottom: Btw 2006 and 2012 % of US households with less than $15k net worth surged from 30 to 45 %. A… https://t.co/0VrZMjJ2IJ

Fascinating paper by Amromin, De Nardi & Schulze from @ChicagoFed on wealth effects and consumption during the 2008… https://t.co/dr7t8EMvsh

US personal savings rate is subject to some rather surprising fluctuations, but it is now back down to pre crisis l… https://t.co/FLSaW3DH59

And: Why Has US Regional Convergence Declined? – https://t.co/tOjt6KvBkh

The big story in France (and the euro area), is investment. Up 9% in two years, and back above pre-crisis levels fo… https://t.co/kaOFa36UBf

Yield spread – borrowing for Bourbon France was a lot more expensive than it was for Hanoverian Britain Welde and W… https://t.co/VXGCAXJmHL

Great cri de coeur from @fsaraceno on why growth not debt is Italy’s BIG problem, why debt is unlikely to be the ca… https://t.co/a0UAvk7HeH

Btw 1880 and 1980 lower income states in US converged with higher income regions. Then convergence stopped. Why?… https://t.co/KMHQSLnSAA

Provision of childcare for young children in Germany has increased significantly but there is still huge unmet dema… https://t.co/VUcHDVKLTn

The @OECD PISA study finds that impact of cultural and educational disadvantage on educational outcomes varies enor… https://t.co/I4mlRXMmp5

1/3 Thaler with the bust of Tsarina Elizabeth from the first occupation of Königsberg between 1759-1762 what is now… https://t.co/X06P4Uo8oC

Fascinating retrospective on America’s housing crisis from @WSJ reporter @RyanDezember who is still caught up in it… https://t.co/totdHwIaD8

Hayek’s road to serfdom and Poland’s Great Transformation both appeared in 1944, both were reviewed by John Chamber… https://t.co/tpQETv3Ws3

The Great Generation – Born in 1886, Polanyi’s contemporaries in Budapest included Jaszi, Mannheim, Lukacs, Szilard… https://t.co/z005AcnZ6u

It’s not unusual … in the Post-Bretton Woods World a 9 % fall in the dollar in a 12 month period is hardly cause fo… https://t.co/oOWmfMAsrQ

The dangers of the new auto-based mobility technologies is that they perpetuate an unsustainable system. Great by… https://t.co/b9eH3jVsk9

#Map compares homicide rates of #USA states and countries in #Europe. You are less likely to be murdered in Europe… https://t.co/Vu27Y5cK9T

Enrico Letta : «Sur la question migratoire, l’esprit européen n’existe pas» https://t.co/GKJ0TgbtvO via @libe

Frog analogies anyone? Bond yields are rising across the board. Even 5-year Bunds are out of negative territory. Wh… https://t.co/ErxlGRXdlk

The end of line for the Bundeswehr’s in house barber shops! In depth research by audit dept reveals that 500k euro… https://t.co/AdZkPwXo2u

Stranded in a food desert – Americans without cars living further than 1 mile from a supermarket. Cant help wonderi… https://t.co/yKeTF0OsMF

Extraordinary mapping of the offshore holding interests of Commerce Secretary Wilbur Ross https://t.co/hPtcU2FbVY… https://t.co/I4tLci0WLi

A day to revisit Spiegel’s inside report on Ikea and the legend of the honest furniture company @DerSPIEGEL… https://t.co/qGRavIITd1

According to IG Metall its average member earns 64k euros per annum. Looking for a new agenda the TU prioritizes no… https://t.co/F9AGNVS990

Ultima Ratio Regum: How the intensity of artillery fire increased over the course of the 18th century MacLennan War… https://t.co/VRB2RMUbof

Prussian bombardment of Prague began on 30 May 1757: 60 heavy mortars and guns fired 60,000 shot over 12 days befor… https://t.co/Iyj4PC3NlR

Bernard Belloto painted Dresden’s Kreuzkirche before and after bombardment by Frederick the Great’s guns in 1760.… https://t.co/IfwokVxETP

Immanuel Kant lecturing to Russian officers during the occupation of Königsberg 1759-1762 Painting at Kant Museum,… https://t.co/CwjjmhDak1