ADAM TOOZE

"Germany has never been further from a left-wing Chancellor than it is today." Hard-hitting report on state of germ… https://t.co/fKRc3jLAHh

"Germany has never been further from a left-wing Chancellor than it is today." Hard-hitting report on state of germ… https://t.co/sD8azapSLT

Crowbar, publicity stunt or liability in urban warfare? – @faznet enquiries about the role that Leopard 2 tanks may… https://t.co/9skod4Iut9

US is the only country in the world that invoices almost all its own trade in its own currency. h/t Gita Gopinath… https://t.co/EFMsdVfzzm

The International Price System – US may not be source of world’s imports and exports but huge share of world trade… https://t.co/WVAJkFZrkJ

Why might AfD’s budget man Boehringer want to return gold to Germany? Because he hopes that “FRG-leadership clique… https://t.co/cwvlOWploH

@foxyforecaster I don’t know much about the amazon algorithm. You don’t think it is telling?

Striking linearity of both gobal population and grain production over last half century. From @faznet… https://t.co/HFZYSMq4DW

“Why the ECB does forbidden things” @PhilipPlickert of @faznet articulates German line: Karlsruhe, proportionality,… https://t.co/sA5oexTLwc

What is tone done? exchange btw Badiou & Gauchet is lucid but also unoriginal: turns out they agree on a Hobsbawmia… https://t.co/h7Ho7BNTrc

What Amazon tells you! Future AfD chair of Germany’s budget cttee is author of nationalist campaign to bring German… https://t.co/fhoIyijh4N

Günther Franz – Nazi historian, appointed to Strasburg Uni in 1940 when it was “regermanized”, promoted peasant his… https://t.co/ajY9Mnzla5

“From No to Yes by 20xx once …” Germany’s acting Finance Minister indicates there may be a phased program for comm… https://t.co/QMXQauslbh

The Bundestag is about to have as chair of its powerful budget cttee AfD’s Peter Boehringer previously known for hi… https://t.co/9jxSDCmOtq

One small segment of US opinion has a vastly outsized voice in economic policy discussion – market skeptic conserva… https://t.co/BabX37Yc8E

The United States erred … the Trump administration fundamentally reevaluates the cornerstone of globalization since… https://t.co/tQrWQ2tzZF

And the longer-run picture remains one of stagnation in productivity growth post-crisis. Changing this trajectory i… https://t.co/baJzY8TrRs

US coal mining jobs up in 2017. That that is even a headline is a sign of the times. We are talking about 50k worke… https://t.co/sLBfznuqXn

Annus mirabilis: 1966 saw the publication of Lacan's Écrits, Foucault's The Order of Things, Althusser's Reading Ca… https://t.co/uCiEKDfi1D

Reversing previous trends wages have grown faster than profits in the US since 2012 @jasonfurman h/t @PIIE… https://t.co/woLgqWqrOo

I'm putting together a military history of PowerPoint and looking for early adopters, G6ers, operations bubbas and… https://t.co/z8wrleVUDa

Germany has the highest inequality of wealth in the Eurozone: 45 super-rich possess as much wealth as half the Germ… https://t.co/vpEgI1Un6w

The militarization of 18th century Europe eclipsed the older Spanish and Ottoman empires Karaman and Pamuk JEH (201… https://t.co/nw6pnC4BTN

Malthusian price cycle broken: relative prices of manuf to wheat stabilized in England in mid 1600s. Voigtländer&Vo… https://t.co/yDz7nAcIxf

UK documents on Yemen policy 1964: “It is not that we are frightened of oil being cut off .. but the profitability… https://t.co/BS02NGBMMC

The Atlantic advantage: how tax revenue per capita in England and Netherlands surged ahead 1500-1800 Karaman and Pa… https://t.co/oA8O4ivGrc

Urbanization rate in Europe probably overtook that of China around 1400. Voigtländer&Voth (2012)… https://t.co/4T5G9VOGTU

Growth mechanics from @jasonfurman You need a huge increase in corporate capital to raise GDP by much h/t @PIIE… https://t.co/nRbVvvQej1

It’s been a while… a mini-good-weekend-reads thread.

SPD hits new poll low (again). https://t.co/MuIIhDKNVW