ADAM TOOZE

Holy crap: Google successfully pressured @SlaughterAM to fire critics who called it a monopoly from New America https://t.co/z9jarRwWZQ

Fiscal redistribution in the US 1913-2014: Reagan&GWBush interrupt trend towards progressivity according to Lindert… https://t.co/lmbIcTqbb7

Astonishing change in the broiler chicken as a growth organism: faster, bigger, cheaper – half as much feed per ib… https://t.co/hlHlhi7UXa

Morale in Brit Army 1944-5 proxied by sickness, exhaustion, desertion, AWOL & self-inflicted wounds… https://t.co/bvDtgjwhG2

Very interesting on the teaching of American civil war history in the 1950s when Trump went to school… https://t.co/OmfMX4ySCY

Where hard Brexit is likely to hurt. Latest estimates of City of London’s dependence on EU business from @IMFNews… https://t.co/9sc4hwENk9

Until mid-1970s, North matched South in per capita output, education, and productivity. A 1969 UN report saw “no chance whatsoever… /3

#Brexit Britain poorly educated & insufficiently skilled, no wonder many people feel they lack control over their l… https://t.co/uEAuOZE2By

International students worth £25bn to universities & local economies across UK. Theresa May still wants less of them https://t.co/hJYTLsBBLc

The remarkable thing here is the low level of South Korean GDP per cap until the 1970s https://t.co/khDFZNieUW

Fair assessment. Who knew the Ayatollahs tweet! https://t.co/qBVNmDG9cY

In Heinrich August Winkler, Schäuble's Germany has found its court historian. Great piece by @adam_tooze in the @LRB https://t.co/K8VSt5KNwn

(shut down) US debt ceiling: the situation in terms of funding gap, chart Barclays @FuW_News https://t.co/iKsn7q6X4o https://t.co/y3WUgj6uKv

Conference Report – When East meets West: The Second World War in Global Perspective https://t.co/ZwKbU4PmHh https://t.co/oF7UD9pidT

@daniel_todman @Alan_Allport @jonathanfennell @JonathanBoff that is where I was going to go in response to Alan. It… https://t.co/UsBrfvgOGy

“A permissive undisciplined society. You are going to blow up” Shah of Iran on Britain 1974 after OPEC I! Remarkabl… https://t.co/3gtkGpZLZw

As e.g. of mulit-layered English nostalgia this takes some beating Rifles Local Boy 2005 referencing WWII & the Jam… https://t.co/Kp2XyCV0lK

@DuncanWeldon or like calling tunes from a pub band!

@ulyssecolonna In a hopeless strategic situation germans could build almost insurmountable tactical strength.

@ulyssecolonna yup the light weaponry figures are really striking. follows up on the MG42 point.

Good on Böckenförde’s chestnut that "free secular state lives from conditions it cannot itself guarantee” JWMüller… https://t.co/PJNkDuUZ9c