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RT @RobinBrooksIIF: Female prime-age labor participation: 2001 – 2021 1. Spain: +22.1 ppts 2. Greece: +13.6 ppts 3. Netherlands: +10.9 ppts…

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RT @GustavAHorn: Die brutale List der Geschichte. Die @fdp wird die Schuldenbremse aufgeben müssen, wenn sie fiskalpolitisch vernünftig r…

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How significant is the Renminbi devaluation? It is on course for steepest monthly fall as China’s economy slows ft.com/content/7a2c9e… https://t.co/O0tG8z8CQT

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@Paul_Kreitman @ClintonGodart @EthanMarkLeiden @astanley711 @bryandaniellowe @Ben_Uchiyama @RBJapanHistory Tbh as far as Nazi Germany is concerned fascism was always niche a. because of its associations with Marxist theory and b. Its implication of comparability, which is problematic with regard to Holocaust. Racial war rather than total war is an important category.

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RT @DeborahACohen: Join Chris Tomlinson and me for a conversation about the Last Call gang @TwainHouse, Tuesday, May 3rd, 7pm EST. Info. o…

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RT @NewLeftEViews: Still the most entertaining arena of clientelistic co-option in the corporate world, emblematic of Italy's moribund soci…

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RT @hora_de_ganar: @MrBlonde_macro Thx for this. Great stuff as always. Are you more biased to '18 versus the '70s experience? There was a…

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RT @jrhopkin: Can’t stop thinking about this snippet from Chartbook #117 @adam_tooze https://t.co/DWLY3Q4SYN

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@WalterScheidel Couldn’t agree more. Which is why Fabien Dell’s work, which take us through 1940 strike me as so interesting.

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West Germany’s postwar Burden Equalization wealth tax led to larger reduction in top 1 % wealths share than war damage. But it was also structured so as to be payable out of income and thus left structure of privilege intact. Chartbook #117 adamtooze.substack.com/p/chartbook-11… https://t.co/Aqv9zMwAaB

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Did World War II redistribute German wealth? To answer that question you can follow the story of families like Quandts and Flicks with @davidthejong in Nazi Billionaires. Or use statistical data which shows that war less impactful than postwar wealth tax. adamtooze.substack.com/p/chartbook-11… https://t.co/JNhekvS7kE

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@BonheurSuis @davidthejong @CharlyBartels @MSchularick thanks.

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RT @BonheurSuis: If U r from 🇮🇳🇧🇷🇵🇭🇹🇷etc, then, today’s @adam_tooze ‘s blog is A MUST READ! He references David de Jong’s study of ultra w…

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The new book Nazi Billionaires by @davidthejong led me into some fascinating reading on the history of German wealth. Star of show is 2020 paper by Albers, @CharlyBartels @MSchularick which features this great table on Prussian wealth-holding in 1913. adamtooze.substack.com/p/chartbook-11… https://t.co/wd7hyoVoO8

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RT @EffieDiek: „The result is a culture of apparent transparency but de facto ignorance or even denial.“ Important context and crux questi…

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How did European wealth make it through the age of extremes? Chartbook #117 pairs two different ways of answering this question. @davidthejong engaging history of Nazi billionaires and statistical work by Albers @MSchularick @CharlyBartels & Fabien Dell adamtooze.substack.com/p/chartbook-11… https://t.co/1rhloirBP6

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@CraigRApplegate @davidthejong Unfortunately there was a technical glitch.

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RT @azraisakovic: Les milliardaires nazis _- les Quandt, les Flick, les von Finck, les Porsche-Piëch et les Oetker et leur enchevêtrement…

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RT @Mark3Ds: @adam_tooze #Balochistan Liberation Army (#BLA) going hard after Chinese in #Pakistan-i province, #PRC outraged (to lash back…

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In Nazi Billionaires @davidthejong highlights the persistence of German wealth across caesura of 1945. How typical was this? I dig into new research by Albers @MSchularick @CharlyBartels to get some answers. Chartbook #117 adamtooze.substack.com/p/chartbook-11… https://t.co/vHxPV7PNpP

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RT @arielbeery: Important reading by @adam_tooze in this Yom HaShoa And a reminder that the consequences of the Nazi capture of power live…

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RT @3eintelligence: Very interesting conference 3-4 May on the finance sector's challenges of the #EUGreenDeal @fw_recherche @boell_eu @zoe…

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In 1933 what German business bought into with their backing for Hitler’s regime was an end to democracy and crushing of the left. They got more than they bargained for. But they made out anyway. Chartbook #117 on @davidthejong new book on Nazi Billionaires adamtooze.substack.com/p/chartbook-11… https://t.co/f1LhxbKafO

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RT @AimeTim: "The imbrication of caplitalism and the Nazi dictatorship". Essential reading. And you must subscribe to this substack. https…

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RT @DeborahACohen: "To guard against any further erosion at the hands of democracy, the wealthy placed a bet on Hitler and between 1933 and…

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Every generation needs to write a new history of the imbrication of capitalism and the Nazi dictatorship. With his new book Nazi Billionaires @davidthejong has given us a history for the era after Occupy and @PikettyLeMonde Chartbook #117 just dropped adamtooze.substack.com/p/chartbook-11… https://t.co/W4YKGAepzJ

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“Private enterprise cannot be maintained in the age of democracy” Who said that you wonder? Read Chartbook #117 One on the political economy of the Third Reich for @elonmusk apropos of @davidthejong new book on Nazi billionaires adamtooze.substack.com/p/chartbook-11… https://t.co/n1sV2O0rcg

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Nazi billionaires. @davidthejong new book harpercollins.com/products/nazi-… Set me thinking about wealth inequality and history in Chartbook #117 adamtooze.substack.com/p/chartbook-11… H/t to work by @MSchularick et al https://t.co/F7iKvevpzd

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RT @JennyGnther: Auch das neue Chartbook von @adam_tooze zu Nazi Milliardären lieber nicht verpassen. adamtooze.substack.com/p/chartbook-11…

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“You absolutely need to see some of these profit pictures turn around for the decarbonization goals to be achievable,” On the profit squeeze in wind turbines afflicting major Western producers bloomberg.com/news/articles/… https://t.co/3uyoFyF2wY

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RT @matjaz_nahtigal: Chartbook #115: The Marshall Plan Revisited, by @adam_tooze adamtooze.substack.com/p/chartbook-11… Many interesting insights about t…

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A day when twitter resounds with enthusiasm for the work of the one and only Mike Sonenscher goes down as a VERY good day in my book. twitter.com/GavJacobson/st…

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RT @HelenCRobertson: Russia will halt gas flows to Poland on Wednesday in a major escalation in the fight between Moscow and Europe over cr…

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RT @KiyyaBaloch: This is the fifth rebellion in #Balochistan, and the current one is the longest, which broke out in early 2000. Still, it’…

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@thwbottelier @AntonJaegermm @DEHEdgerton "Machine tools and mass production in the armaments boom: Germany and the United States, 1929-44" CRISTIANO ANDREA RISTUCCIA and ADAM TOOZE The Econ Hist Rev Vol. 66, No. 4 (NOV 2013), pp. 953-974 A labour of love! Shows some amazing action in multi spindle automatics in the US.

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RT @Tom_M_Shields: Good read – @adam_tooze on the current crypto craze, competitiveness, and parallels with the '07/'08 crisis. V interesti…

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