ADAM TOOZE

Impatient Liberal Market Economy: Nick Crafts diagnoses British productivity weakness in the postwar decades… https://t.co/mWTYgtRxT4

Given blue collar wages in the $ 20 per week range, the prices on these items are really striking! https://t.co/6GGuygvmG6

@prchovanec The price on that beautiful tenchcoat is c. 2-3 weeks wages for a blue-collar worker at that point!

"when the United States is serious about something we put soldiers on it. We put money on it.” Lt Gen Ben Hodges co… https://t.co/rVfir7hFJY

One of most remarkable sections in Ken Burns Vietnam doc concerned spectacular “urbanization" in S Vietnam in 1960s… https://t.co/o7WVQcdKy1

How Uk gov advisors grossly underestimated the impact on uK labour markets of 2004 E Europe accession and freedom o… https://t.co/1KPu8qceFd

ABSOLUTELY fascinating inside take on the Cameron administration’s disastrous slide to Brexit from Ivan Rogers UK’s… https://t.co/1zPEKqa5FU

Finis Germania & the Schuldkult: @fromTGA offers excellent summary of the bizarre scandal around national conservat… https://t.co/3LhacOomso

E27 banks have been particularly aggressive in cutting their derivatives exposure to the UK since Brexit vote https://t.co/5WvYhEkVH1

War as a driver of urbanization – fighting and economic pull factors drove mass migration from Vietnamese countrysi… https://t.co/CTbDOF6jGA

Urbanization as counterrevolution: Sam Huntington on the lesson of Vietnam, Foreign Affairs 1968… https://t.co/FFgdW4VAVf

@postdiscipline It’s certainly “social theory in action”!

Sam Huntington in 1968 described struggle in Vietnam as a race between a Mao-inspired rural revolution and an Ameri… https://t.co/WHwj5oYfri

Bernie Ecclestone of Formula 1, deserves his place in the rogues gallery of male moguls that emerged from the 1970s… https://t.co/TGANHsd6uS

One of most remarkable sections in Ken Burns Vietnam doc concerned spectacular “urbanization" in S Vietnam in 1960s… https://t.co/MFvkS0PEN6

The most successful submarine ever? German WWI U-Boat class UCII: in an age before effective ASW the 64 built accou… https://t.co/6NnP0OwGSi

@prospect_clark hi Tom … Im not sure frivolity is the issue here. My take is that they were core issues with regard… https://t.co/ybciXIG2nl

@prospect_clark @prospect_uk @Andrew_Adonis actually on this I find myself in agreement with @Andrew_Adonis for any… https://t.co/Dsa3CvG9Jd

@prospect_clark @JORISLUIJENDIJK Hi @prospect_clark kudos on getting the fantastic Rogers piece! What a source …

Franc-tireur? New controversy stirring over German atrocities in Belgium in 1914 and the question of civilian “inno… https://t.co/JlJ4WjP2gb

Cutting the Soli – good discussion at one of key issues that broke the Jamaica coalition talks in Berlin… https://t.co/SmDHUuVoQV

Global median per capita income rose from $ 1090 in 2003 to $2010 in 2013! https://t.co/XIecoT5ZA6

When computers were people! https://t.co/x4Ut363WMg

The German electoral stalemate may be producing uncertainty but it is also generating some great political photogra… https://t.co/re9KdXsCL6

Archaeological minis – Over millennia the agricultural revolution drove increasing inequality… https://t.co/Ie7v4V5gLY

Cumulative change in wages and jobs in retail v. rest of US economy. A beautiful visualization conveying some petty… https://t.co/cW0uhxBV3L

High yield close is ticking: $1trn comes due in next 5 years, some of which, notably retail, may more than a little… https://t.co/JKivvIdY2P

Victims of America’s retail apocalypse: where retail business loans are going bad! Pittsburgh 26.8% are non-perform… https://t.co/7fpURPuvIm