ADAM TOOZE

The more educated are more vulnerable to motivated reasoning: strategic ignorance, reality denial & self-signaling https://t.co/kw7EK2TpV6

Fascinating on how $bns remittances frm Bangladesh’s 8m expats flow into hundi system & informal import financing… https://t.co/9zWULAuygK

Tech leads push in clean power-purchase deals. But 10 % of costs of beer are electric. Ask for a sustainable pint!… https://t.co/pCFds56KVK

“Life’s hard on the LME rollercoaster if you are supporting a family” How China's overcapacity hits US workers… https://t.co/7hdUVdSnJA

Excellent from Fed’s Kashkari on why evidence of lowflation ought to trump misplaced 1960s faith in Phillips curve… https://t.co/OJw8YwMBRx

The IMF is back in Africa: 19 sub-Saharan countries have entered into programs since squeeze on EM began in 2013… https://t.co/o3A0v6xog2

Break up Amazon: Hard-hitting @rooseveltinst post on implications of Amazon’s purchase of Wholefoods grocery chain… https://t.co/ehm7jNauTV

Recovery of average house prices in the US since crisis masks huge regional disparities. Only 1/3 are back to peak… https://t.co/PHxEum22fH

How Honecker&Kohl got along: regional princes with black/white ideologies. Interesting GDR perspective… https://t.co/IOASOQdCEW

Furious commentary on latest round of extend&pretend in Greece by @yanisvaroufakis 2 % Primary surplus until 2060!… https://t.co/CAVP7B7Zl2

"we can't accept threat of illegal & extraterritorial sanctions against Euro fims”=Ger response to USv.Rus sanction… https://t.co/cdLgYQeS0p

“History is war.” interesting review by Darnton of Boucheron et al’s controversial Histoire Mondiale de la France… https://t.co/ILVKQ2nuWR

Heavy-Hitting case against Fed rationale for recent rate increase from @LHSummers 2 % is symmetrical target!… https://t.co/imjqn8kRIJ

Best English-lang Kohl write up I have found. Excellent on Kohl’s unlikely combination of provincialism+Europeanism… https://t.co/O2apW17uqI

Anyone know email for @TheEconomist Buttonwood? I have pdf to share apropos of recent 1914-globalization piece https://t.co/vI0JhAL0fW

First successful remote-controlled plane and origin of term “drone”, the de Havilland DH82B Queen Bee… https://t.co/apbL6kXicw

“Why I Dissented Again” by @neelkashkari https://t.co/11XyHkVGbX

The great unwired interior of the US: digital divide reinforces and is reinforced by divergent economic fortunes… https://t.co/dSt9mIoomQ

The inequality trap: where greater inequality LOWERS a polity’s tendency to redistribute. Analyzed historically: https://t.co/zmXOUV209j

The impact on German children of the Allied blockade in WWI: severe squeeze followed by rapid recovery… https://t.co/5cmNmYdIq2

Urban growth across a period of crisis: Southeast Asian cities 1938-1949. Saigon surged with huge refugee populatio… https://t.co/SxjXOSktgt

Daring comparison of socio-econ structure of Mughal India 1600, England 1688 and Japan 1840. India FAR more unequal… https://t.co/bRqxHDFpx0

How Greece has stopped worrying and learned to like capital controls! Good for limiting tax evasion.… https://t.co/Ym4Yzm3Eoq

Precisely. Obama as incumbent tied left down. Republican primaries 2011 were a clown show. But Romney put lid on. 2… https://t.co/SG5Nt4Oun1

In the US too 2016 presidential election more clearly marked by 2008 crisis than that of 2012. @PeterMandler1 https://t.co/RVpVri0ZtM

This too needs to be remembered. Even before unification Kohl was Germany’s “great moving right show”. https://t.co/AB5qBVahZE

Did Henry VIII really lift England’s first capital controls in 1538? https://t.co/ncN5XrLZ0V

Making of a European moment: Mitterand reached for Kohl’s hand at the Verdun monument Sep 1984… https://t.co/N0c8UFs68K