ADAM TOOZE

Tariffs were increasingly irrelevant to G20 trade policy … at least until 2017. There was a general tendency to tar… https://t.co/QhzNRfFWJR

American transfer union: the gap in effective tax rates under highly progressive US income tax is more than 7 % bet… https://t.co/yzyqkxgM0D

If the Trump admin wanted to halve US imports it would need to shut down trade in only 72 key goods – out of the UN… https://t.co/ug3KogQvNN

The Belarus option: crashing out of EU on WTO terms would put the UK in some pretty exclusive company!… https://t.co/pG1YezKedE

The claim that we avoided Smoot-Hawley bolsters the G20/WTO narrative that faced with 2008 shock, “the system worke… https://t.co/hoaKcPl3FA

@PropertySpot it is based on UN’s MAST Classification of non-tariff measures.

"The Stalin Test" … seriously … imagine you are investing Stalin’s pension fund!?! "what would he do if he was work… https://t.co/85WKQ8Tbjz

If the Trump admin is looking for evidence to support its claim about discriminatory measures against US trade, it… https://t.co/bWS3ENB5LA

Fsscinating on the tens of thousands of Caribbean migrant workers who built the Panama canal. By Julie Greene… https://t.co/fV1jCafpBl

Right to bear arms: The origins of the 2nd Amendment lie in the “savage wars” of American colonization not the batt… https://t.co/PG7HyPpVM3

Wow we really are going to have some fun! Thanks to @qmHPT for putting this together! https://t.co/E3r5mVkqIY

Truly fantastic session of Uprising 13/13 on Foucault in Iran with Defert, Ghamari-Tabrizi and Revel… https://t.co/RnGjJwXcP8

“A budget, equipment, jet fighters and hovercraft, don’t make an army. Indeed, sometimes armaments impede the creat… https://t.co/qLSii3RHa7

Filed §1983 civil rights complaint with federal court in Birmingham, Alabama, to stop Doyle Hamm's lethal injection… https://t.co/jRcpS6gxj8

Jihadis on speed: iSIS issued its standard Chinese-made light machine guns with pouches of amphetamines… https://t.co/AuXDFVapLX

Shock of the old: 60 % of weapons used by ISIS in Syrian civil war were manufactured 1960-1989 @DEHEdgerton this is… https://t.co/wJNE9KFtzg

Casting bombs for ISIS’s “improvised” 119.5 mm mortars that are fashioned out of steel piping. Fascinating report o… https://t.co/ZKsXK2GGnr

Fact that US and Russian wealth inequality is neck and neck is one of most shocking facts confirmed by… https://t.co/YhIFCqrWlq

"If we treat a plutocracy as a democracy, democracy dies. … It is also a mistake to see this plutocracy as designed… https://t.co/GijiuELi0U

“In taking this work forward we need to do some real soul searching,” – Azevêdo sobering conclusion to a disappoint… https://t.co/W9tUwXBW4p

Etienne Balibar won the Hannah Arendt Prize in Political Thought, given by the city of Bremen. He sees that we must… https://t.co/VEqGFa8aLi

The rip-roaring story of the FBME banking network and its connections to Russian power and money – another stocking… https://t.co/ola97iaisL

If these numbers are plausible they hardly suggest that the single market is vital to economic welfare of its membe… https://t.co/a8WteXv8wf

Trump is not the only threat to trade liberalization: The EU single market is fraying from within. Great piece by… https://t.co/qrp5kp109J

How long can we outrun diminishing returns? Yield growth v. research effort for key agricultural crops… https://t.co/YskQ8KOjom

From the Manhattan project to costing Death Stars … if this isn’t xmas reading I don’t know what is @DuncanWeldon… https://t.co/bmPt6CQgy9

The window for constructive European institution-building is closing and Juncker’s desperate efforts at agenda sett… https://t.co/YGWh7aBYvU

@BuddyYakov thank you @BuddyYakov this is fascinating! I was implicitly arguing this but will now make the connecti… https://t.co/VlHGh0WRd6

We aint in Kansas any more … and we aint going back there any time soon! Fascinating from @M_C_Klein on how a futur… https://t.co/WXcz64ZXOg