ADAM TOOZE

Xi on Gorbachev and the Soviet collapse: ‘Nobody was man enough to stand up and resist’ (没有一人是男儿)… https://t.co/UPZXfqPoqM

Who is not in China's One Belt One Road Initiative? … India and Japan. The Abe/Modi convergence has a solid geopoli… https://t.co/VN95gagXhX

Stressed childhoods: % of ethnic minorities facing financial, emotional personal insecurity is *2 for white kids… https://t.co/v81BtBVjPD

Global wealth & how you make money managing it: $54trn to play of which $22trn privately banked —> $163bn revenue… https://t.co/VpmYSeOGnG

Where the rich are richest: Financial wealth more concentrated in US than anywhere else in world… https://t.co/7Ht9bXyQ3e

Global wealth & how you make money managing it: $54trn to play of which $22trn privately banked —> $163bn revenue… https://t.co/JNc8EIQYXc

This is basically Kam and Kinder's now classic ethnocentrism result. https://t.co/Ki6bvpj4ef

Uneven and combined global growth 1348-1800: NL rises and falls, England starts 1600, W Euro very slow, Italy decl… https://t.co/yabaixL8PT

FT claims that 70-75% Macron parliament majority will “anchor legitimacy”. Will it? It is absurdly unrepresentative… https://t.co/jhEULmNdwD

Prison tech: One of last typewriter makers: Swintec NJ makes transparent machines for use in US jails… https://t.co/EudqKuFkh1

#TodayInHistory: German sociologist and philosopher Jürgen Habermas is born. https://t.co/K8yI8CpQvN https://t.co/TZK9ohIzkX

The explosion of copying https://t.co/x7c7g4ZXmJ One quarter of news stories reproduced online in less than 4 minutes @cepr_org

Europe’s Econ growth in antiquity and medieval period: Early data from the Maddison project… https://t.co/WHOHIaEICx

Barnier mountain walking in French alps to draw strength and energy ahead of Brexit talks starting tomorrow (sort o… https://t.co/e57OLG88bB

The Sickness of Reason (2003). Robert Longo's charcoal drawings of nuclear explosions Untitled (Hercules) https://t.co/PRzvtOClHg

Robert Longo Untitled (Destroyed Head of Lamassu, Nineveh), 2016. Charcoal on mounted paper 88 1/2 x 140 in https://t.co/rvafc2YxYC

Sales of academic books plunging, but downloads prove they have very large readership. Something has to give! https://t.co/7EGUbZfO1a

Of all books submitted to UK’s 2014 REF exercise, only c. 50 % achieved a single retail sale in 2008-2014 – RIP UPs! https://t.co/7EGUbZfO1a

52nd African Develop. Bank meet … in India … in Modi’s Gujarat. Launches with Japan the Asia Africa Growth Corrido… https://t.co/X0lXFYgGWV

Patriotic Tourism: Philippines, China and Malaysia all compete to develop Parcel and Spratley islands for tourism… https://t.co/U9iw4yWipX

@HelenHet20 We tend to assume that “knaveproof” systems constrain principally the left (which they do). But they ha… https://t.co/CxpfMYE1Tm

Precisely! Ditto the Republican hostage taking. Ditto the unrelenting pressure on Syriza. "Autonomy of the politica… https://t.co/oeMcnIeYgq

Shall we write something about it?

China’s fiscal apparatus is surprisingly weak. Out of population of 1.388 bn only c. 26 m pay income tax… https://t.co/8eTuoyJC8P

Completely agree. 2011 and 2013 in Congress & the all out siege of Syriza in 2015 are only possible because of fire… https://t.co/NcDIuw7VBi

Deutschland hat die Chance zusammen mit Frankreich die EWU zu erneuern. Wird dies genutzt? https://t.co/Ln0x3Te0os

South Korean head of Asian Infrastructure Inv Bank seeks to distance bank from Beijing. Not vehicle for OBOR!… https://t.co/sq9ie2yuBU

Reviving Indo-European links in … the Baltic. Not a headline you ever expected. By way of Sanskrit no less!… https://t.co/lGJrTcbNAR

How 19th c Egypt industrialized: remarkable praise for Muhammad Ali’s early 1800s econ development program… https://t.co/H8pqnyACLH

Facing imminent famine in Somalia, UN is scrambling to protect livestock assets for future rebuild… https://t.co/PjQ61PFDLw

As house prices recover # with neg equity falls to 3.2 m from 12.1 m in 2011. In real terms prices still 16 % down.… https://t.co/qmg3bpUNz6