ADAM TOOZE

If the public finances of tiny Greece had the world holdings its breath for years, just imagine what the debt bomb… https://t.co/kfQbGZ6cDq

How did the Indian Army hold together in WWII in the face of staggering early defeats and the greatest nationalist… https://t.co/s9as39cnC6

The strange death of "death taxes”: excellent piece by @TheEconomist on the rollback of inheritance taxes… https://t.co/cgI2wOhK4P

"scandale geologique” – the concentration of cobalt and other minerals integrates Congo’s artisanal miners into a g… https://t.co/Bjd69mlQZE

Quit India 1942 from Chittaprasad Bhattacharya’s banned book Hungry Bengal https://t.co/17NbVLkwNb… https://t.co/oxPFABN7br

"Join the army and see the world: Indian soldiers take in Roman ruins in North Africa.” WWII from Barkawi’s fascina… https://t.co/hsfXfHBZ1d

"The rent from buy-to-let properties, which we estimate at £55bn-65bn ($73bn-87bn) a year, is equivalent to the sal… https://t.co/vB680Y7iK6

@infinite_milos a doddle by comparison!

“In the past there was always another central bank that would step up and pick up the baton from someone scaling ba… https://t.co/mOHPaDa1Pv

"In the Korean War, the US Army decided that a vocabulary of around one hundred words was sufficient to allow US an… https://t.co/NY4RVOsl4R

According to @BLS_gov and @TheEconomist there are 51,200 people employed as coal miners in the US v. 785k in 1920.… https://t.co/NpBxa8Htoe

From obligation to option: marriage is no longer fate but a lifestyle choice in much of W Europe. Great graph from… https://t.co/5ptOLEc5tM

A million? A billion? A trillion you say? A much younger Mario Draghi doing a pretty good Dr Evil rendition!… https://t.co/r48WQp1ifT

Glencore’s expansion plans for its Kantanga mining complex will make it the dominant global supplier of cobalt… https://t.co/TuJP9IsZzZ

Hans Joas always worth a read – see my https://t.co/C5Z2swiTnV. Thanks to @adam_tooze for posting this! https://t.co/2k2RachTkh

"As Abrams (1988, 76) suggests in abstract terms the state is a ‘message of domination’ – an artefact ‘attributing… https://t.co/JrxQuuSLo3

"A state without public debt is either doing too little for the future or demanding too much from the present.” Lor… https://t.co/avN8F6SZi1

Counterflow’s of globalization: US farms face competition from global rivals like Brazil, who are equipped with hig… https://t.co/eB1k45wN6Q

America’s export-orientated agriculture is one of the key obstacles to Trump’s protectionist turn. But its position… https://t.co/vaXvfRUAR9

“She believed there was a danger of repeating Winston Churchill’s historic error of fixing the parity of the £ at t… https://t.co/ntImn9u1lT

Going to avoid a “here are loads of things I liked in 2017” list. But this was my favourite book I read this year.… https://t.co/cHTyMpIwuT

Stunting: The effects of malnutrition on brain development in a (small) sample of Bangladeshi children… https://t.co/U8ZAdUgeMv

“We’re going to have to learn the table manners of sitting at a bigger table” – how America’s farmers are adjusting… https://t.co/AK4pFhdIg0

It isn’t years of schooling but skills (as measured by tests) that are strongly correlated with GDP growth… https://t.co/acZziKtIGi

@CivicCritic @CharnelHouseMov @rosswolfe is @rosswolfe behind the genius @CharnelHouseMov ?

VKhUTEMAS: The “Soviet Bauhaus” marvellous blogpost on innovative Soviet architectural studio recycled from Archite… https://t.co/C3nmaD005E