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An interesting step backwards in measuring global poverty: my comments on Robert Allen's paper in the latest AER. https://t.co/EROofRiiI4

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This is my favourite thing ever. It's an amazing story from the International Geophysical Year (IGY) 1957-58. I wri… https://t.co/WrmRZcewnK

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@danfranke79 @CSIS I can’t speak for them. But I am indignant on their behalf! Le Duan is more or less absent from… https://t.co/sAGx3XY38S

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The first successful struggle against the British empire since the 1770s – Ireland’s challenge to the British Empir… https://t.co/gBpEht3End

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@danfranke79 @CSIS Thank you Daniel. Very useful pointer. Greg Daddis was my host when I was guest professor at Wes… https://t.co/C2mEB1ry8k

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@t0nyyates hi tony not 100 % on either series yet. Want to come back to this in a blog post. But the 1983 series gi… https://t.co/xJIdMOC2IP

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For those coming off a Ken Burns binge I highly recommend – Vietnam: A Television History (1983) You make an epic d… https://t.co/ZN2VER1Mfi

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After watching the Ken Burns Vietnam series (2017) I’m now rewatching the 1980s PBS series Vietnam: A Television Hi… https://t.co/F2seLYRtgo

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"the most important number you’ve never heard of” – SC-CO2 – the official estimate of the social cost of carbon. Th… https://t.co/vqFJkBvr7j

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Nobin Chandra Das (1845-1925) legendary Calcutta confectionary entrepreneur, culinary exponent of Bengali renaissan… https://t.co/pU4xnCYdmh

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Essential report by @TheEconomist on efforts by Trump’s team to gut EPA by slashing estimates of social cost of car… https://t.co/zrnfvBdvR1

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Are blue-collar wages in the US finally picking up? https://t.co/mu6npeYuMB https://t.co/NYQ8n4FPh1

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Catch-up on the cheap? Why do poor countries invest proportionally less in R&D? https://t.co/lWnjJswBzY https://t.co/bcGf8iNH46

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If you don’t know what is driving inflation, don’t act in a way that implies that you do and is biased in a conserv… https://t.co/V7t3gSMups

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God, conscience … and Kantorowicz. As ever @delong on point about the depth of the crisis in the American public sp… https://t.co/nWYh2gUUF8

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In 2015: 155,000 families = 500k adults and children accessed US homeless assistance system and long-term rent subs… https://t.co/EYspgvH7SA

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mid-century disruption: the experience of elevator operators, pin-setters, car mechanics all suggest that talk of a… https://t.co/0xHYiWkJAc

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The reorganization of agriculture defined US labour market from 1850-1950s. Fascinating from @RobAtkinsonITIF and… https://t.co/bfQGvN3WL0

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And my last Alphachat recorded while still at the FT is just out — Part 3 of the AO Hirschman trilogy with… https://t.co/S65lZ052xC

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If you EVER have the chance to stay at the Selosse hotel and taste their champagne DO IT! https://t.co/uABgoccEhF

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Recommended Links: 2 December 2017 – https://t.co/IN5GieNF68 https://t.co/UR7fTUOY79

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False Alarmism? Fascinating new paper on rates of technological change in US division of labour – data suggest a un… https://t.co/qBkvVT6ktW

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Hysteresis: Great roundup of long-rung impact of Great Recession https://t.co/IkaTnxf92r headlining the work of Dan… https://t.co/dN8KlWk3F9

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Ireland’s independence struggle set against global backdrop of WWI and aftermath – Deluge left me convinced we need… https://t.co/PAA8A19RIj

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No robots please, we’re British. Remarkable data from the OECD https://t.co/vkFbXD0pYO https://t.co/QaAqyWM6Gg

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“impassioned history” – intelligent appreciation of The Internationalists by @scottjshapiro and @oonahathaway… https://t.co/WYZR6Rhz29

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A “true cultural brand of Russia” – "a weapon for the defense of my fatherland”: the contested monument to Kalashni… https://t.co/pwRitk2LBS

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Multiple demographies: birthrates and migration divide China’s provinces and cities into multiple demographic regim… https://t.co/ROpP5FB8rS

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Do we have an adequate account of the extraordinary fluctuations in CDU support registered by polls in 2017? Could… https://t.co/9tmj4fuFnd

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The collapse in Merkel’s popularity rating in 2010 is a crucial and underestimated backdrop to the politics of the… https://t.co/zRUY87X9fk

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Constructing the idea of the Muslim World in the age of imperialism – fascinating new book by @cemilaydin86 https://t.co/mcwX6KCI7N

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@jamiemartin2 You are welcome @jamiemartin2 But now you are going to have to post a paper somewhere! h/t @nicolas_veron

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Constructing a clash of religiously defined civilizations whilst counting Empire: extraordinary map of the “moslem… https://t.co/Gju9SoxgUh

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Race theorist Lothrop Stoddard earned a history PhD from Harvard with a study of the Haiti revolution: the "first g… https://t.co/oUNfw92sTB

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Imperial affinities – Admiral Nelson with his Order of the Crescent prominently displayed – honor conferred on him… https://t.co/YYRYihy1BB

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The “ottomanization” of Europe in the 1920s. Fascinating paper today by Jamie Martin (Georgetown)… https://t.co/HM6KPeTFQd

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