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Want to read just one thing on the history of the Marshall Plan? Fantastic piece by David Reynolds featured in Chartbook #115 adamtooze.substack.com/p/chartbook-11… https://t.co/zOJ5wNUs4a

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The call has gone up for a Marshall Plan for Ukraine @MESandbu ft.com/content/39912a… Chartbook #115 on the history of the Marshall Plan. adamtooze.substack.com/p/chartbook-11… https://t.co/k6pH6r5U8l

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RT @PeterMandler1: @adam_tooze I remember that Hirschman look at seminars. Terrifying. (Especially as he spoke so little.)

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Albert Hirschman looking intently at Wehrmacht general, Anton Dostler, for whom he was translating in the first of the Allies’ war crimes trials. Dostler was found guilty of ordering the killing of prisoners and was executed. ft.com/content/85786a… https://t.co/W1Hp214uJS

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Milward’s revisionism on the Marshall Plan still shapes the debate. Chartbook #115 on a debate that in light of Ukraine war suddenly seems more relevant than ever. adamtooze.substack.com/p/chartbook-11… https://t.co/YOCrYRZH0v

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When folks talk about a Marshall Plan for Ukraine they are talking about myth not historical reality. A new piece for @NewStatesman newstatesman.com/ideas/2022/04/… & Chartbook #115 chartbook https://t.co/XFJzkQA9tS

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The US has committed a cumulative US$3bn in aid to Pacific island nations, but only $31mn went to the Solomon Islands … oops! ft.com/content/fb7eed… https://t.co/necRU8sDZi

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"Saab anticipates fresh opportunities if Sweden joins Nato Country’s main defence group says membership of military alliance would open up new markets" ft.com/content/bf4c0a… https://t.co/cyRbNjk4h4

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US steps up efforts to court Solomon Islands in wake of China security deal Washington accelerates embassy reopening in South Pacific nation (closed in 1993) after it agreed a pact with Beijing ft.com/content/fb7eed… https://t.co/HpHgjkbUpN

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An immediate EU ban on Russian gas imports would dent Germany’s gross domestic product by 5 per cent this year, the Bundesbank has warned. ft.com/content/fc767a… https://t.co/znGyHKjDLs

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RT @PopularFront_: #Kurdistan: The PKK has released this footage of fighters attacking Turkish helicopters flying through Kurejaro. The Tur…

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G20, which has few formal rules was completely stymied by Russia’s continued participation and walkout by western nations. Unable to publish a communique leaving Indonesia in chair in invidious position of trying to talk up the achievements amidst acrimony ft.com/content/b17fac… https://t.co/TcLj1aIOQW

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21st-century Marshall Plan: US Treasury is lobbying private finance to increase support for Ukraine h/t @KateDavidson politico.com/newsletters/mo… On the original Marshall Plan and its implications see newstatesman.com/ideas/2022/04/… & Chartbook #115 adamtooze.substack.com/p/chartbook-11… https://t.co/1r8DQ3ZrjC

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"Defence officials describe a process whereby equipment, once authorised for dispatch, reaches Ukraine in 48 to 72 hours.” @felschwartz ft.com/content/1d9027…

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RT @JonathanBoff: Does Ukraine need a Marshall Plan? – New Statesman A1 article here from ⁦@adam_tooze⁩ : great intro to the Marshall Plan…

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RT @CraigAWhiteside: "Given this history, when people propose a new Marshall Plan to fix a contemporary problem – that is, a gigantic econo…

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This is going to be fun. Talking crypto with Fabio Panetta and Jan Svejnar! twitter.com/ColumbiaEurope…

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Revisiting the Marshall Plan Chartbook #115 adamtooze.substack.com/p/chartbook-11… Pairs with my latest for @NewStatesman on a Marshall Plan for Ukraine newstatesman.com/ideas/2022/04/… https://t.co/TFBzybmdb7

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RT @RobinBrooksIIF: Anecdotally, investment in the Euro zone has already ground to a halt & consensus at the IMF spring meetings is rapidly…

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RT @dnystedt: TSMC founder Morris Chang again pilloried TSMC's decision to build a US fab, media report, saying costs there are 50% higher…

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Marshall Plan for Ukraine? Since 1945 M.P. has come to stand for any large-scale publicly funded program that promises to transform a problem. That has little to do with the reality of the MP or the problems confronting Ukraine. Latest for @NewStatesman newstatesman.com/ideas/2022/04/… https://t.co/3VLZS8tijU

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With Putin’s revival of Cold War liberalism it is hardly surprising that the call has gone up for a Marshall Plan for Ukraine. The myth of the Marshall Plan is everywhere. But what was the historic plan? And is it a good model? My latest for @NewStatesman newstatesman.com/ideas/2022/04/… https://t.co/yLJsTbVE0I

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RT @vpalsmith33: /THREAD/ In the spirit of @adam_tooze annotated reading lists, I wrote up a "review" of @M_C_Klein and @michaelxpettis boo…

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The call is going up for a Marshall Plan for Ukraine. But the sobering fact is that the West already made Marshall Plan level commitments to Ukraine after 2014. What is needed now is far larger! My latest for @NewStatesman newstatesman.com/ideas/2022/04/… https://t.co/Br8l3GA3jv

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Did a piece for @GavJacobson & @NewStatesman on the myth and reality of the Marshall Plan and the scale of such a program in Ukraine. twitter.com/GavJacobson/st…

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RT @esaravalle: Such a good @adam_tooze piece. Agreed that reliance on myth won't help Ukraine. Fiscal foreign policy is "trench warfare" o…

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RT @GrossmeisterTse: @derLampenputzer Glaube mich daran zu erinnern, dass @adam_tooze mal von einer Museumsführung bei BMW erzählte, bei de…

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RT @stefeich: Just received my advance copy of _The Currency of Politics_! Available for preorder now, out on May 24. Thanks as ever to t…

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RT @TimMLatimer: I really don't want to reopen the projections/forecast/scenarios debate, but do want to point out, since so many utilities…

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12-16 % hit to russian gdp from financial sanctions alone. This seems like an important result because based on a model specifically designed to capture financial sanctions effects. twitter.com/IikkaKorhonen/…

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"Kazakhstan's decision to ban wheat exports is really bad news for the country’s poorer Central Asian neighbors, which get some 90 percent of their wheat imports from their northern neighbor." twitter.com/helthib/status…

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RT @ntsafos: Russia faces many hurdles in 'pivoting' to Asia as an alternative to European gas. Price is a big one: Russia is desperate, Ch…

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RT @JavierBlas: It isn't every day that the IMF goes into this detail about the commodity trading houses — and that we get a chart of the…

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RT @bopinion: As the American gas market begins to connect with the European one, the energy price problems in Europe are crossing the Atla…

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RT @shashj: Astute point by @Nigelgd1 here in the latest issue of Survival. “The war in Ukraine may be the first crisis in decades in which…

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RT @IlyaMatveev_: Andrei Belousov, deputy prime minister [this one wasn't reported in the West, but it's crucial]: economic stimulus to fig…

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