ADAM TOOZE

Pushed by energy-intensive exports China’s energy consumption has been surging above trend. @SoberLook thedailyshot.com/2021/10/11/sep… https://t.co/AqXV72Wvim

How are "natural experiments" made? Chartbook #45 on David Card’s work on immigration, wages and the Mariel boat lift. adamtooze.substack.com/p/chartbook-45… https://t.co/K2JckQQb85

RT @Afrogermanreprt: Do yourselves a favor and read @adam_tooze’s excellent blog connecting Cuban immigration in the 80s with the recent No…

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The backstop behind the Chinese real estate sector and financial system is the government balance sheet. Hardly a doom-loop, but a noticeable blip in Chinese sovereign debt yields. thedailyshot.com/2021/10/11/sep… https://t.co/dSCvhGhiVZ

"Greenium decline”: Spreads on green corporate bonds versus a business’s conventional debt have narrowed to less than 1 basis point, down from 9 basis points in 2020. ft.com/content/16b2d9… https://t.co/V8BTCQ7kn0

In 2019, new homes made up more than three-quarters of home sales in China, versus less than 12% in the U.S. wsj.com/articles/beyon… https://t.co/nJ6dqZgDmd

Domestic miners account for more than 90% of coal use in China but high prices, rising demand following the Covid-19 pandemic and conflicting energy policies have led to shortages and surging imports despite Australia ban. ft.com/content/ff4f83… https://t.co/Bl6f3a8eza

Since 1995 Japan has increased its workforce by 5 m whilst its working-age population has declined by 13 m. (If I read this graph right) thedailyshot.com/2021/10/11/sep… https://t.co/6XxPvMfuZI

“There is an inaccurate campaign that’s saying we’re seeing the first crisis caused by clean energy and that this can become a barrier for further policy action to address climate change. But this is definitely not true,” @fbirol ft.com/content/644e39… https://t.co/6UBy6vSeYy

Rising energy costs are a problem for European industry. But we should be precise about who feels the pressure. It is in the main precisely the sectors that need to accelerate decarbonization. thedailyshot.com/2021/10/11/sep… https://t.co/K27AgmCl8I

Birol of @IEA said that while projected investment in oil and gas was now aligned with the changes needed to reach net zero emissions of greenhouse gases by 2050, public spending on renewable power was only at a third of the future levels required. ft.com/content/644e39… https://t.co/NB2bkCRvPC

RT @davies_will: SUVs are a curse. An especially depressing stat is that their rise has cancelled out ALL the emissions gains of electric c…

The oil component of Germany’s energy balance has been a constant. The electricity mix has not. The energy transition in coming decades needs to encompass both. thedailyshot.com/2021/10/11/sep… https://t.co/NVUw0pjKIy

RT @FTusa284: Slightly ashamed that I missed the publication of this: publications.parliament.uk/pa/cm5802/cmse… Important as the first sentence states: "The…

Since 2017-8, Germany’s trade surplus has been contracting. thedailyshot.com/2021/10/11/sep… https://t.co/A1C4qFKm5n

RT @M_C_Klein: "The Moroccan car industry now directly employs some 220,000 people" ft.com/content/7a8498… <– some striking data in her…

@StevePrediletto @CatJarman In fact America’s libraries are, relatively speaking, rather a strong suit ….

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@vpalsmith33 @GeoffPMann @ezraklein Yeah. You are right. I often simply forget what I put up on the website. I am planning to recuperate and reactualizes it all. As I did with the chartbook today ….

RT @CyrilPedia: 'How then do we get from Mariel as a violent emblem of America’s toxic relations with Cuba and the Caribbean, to the Sverig…

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@vpalsmith33 @GeoffPMann I laid it out in a giant set of slides I did on Keynes in 2013 and will at some point “publish". It was against the backdrop of that sketch that I responded to @GeoffPMann with as much enthusiasm as I did.

RT @GavinJKelly1: That’s a doozy of a post by @adam_tooze on natural experiments & the Nobel. With walk on parts for Bill Clinton, Scarface…

Funny thing about “natural experiments” in economics is that they often grow out of arbitrary administrative rules or overdetermined historical contexts that produce “exogenous” shocks. Chartbook #45 on Card, migration, 1980s Miami and Mariel. adamtooze.substack.com/p/chartbook-45… https://t.co/W6XlbFd3MH

RT @paroles_la: Il n'y a plus de Compagnon de la Libération. Hubert Germain est mort. Adieu Monsieur. La flamme de la Résistance ne doit pa…

@enricviladv I really didn’t mean it to be read as criticism of microeconomics. This is an example of reductio ad absurdum not of best practice or what folks do in micro in general.

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RT @Nahiraziaye: When Afghanistan was free I was a lawyer defending the rights of innocent people in the courts of Afghanistan, but now I a…

RT @PaulPage: The IMF’s latest World Economic Outlook report says the top policy priority is to vaccinate an adequate number of people in e…

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Miami in the 1980s Scarface Cuba A Clinton scandal Governmentality I swear, the Card Econ Nobel Prize story has it all. Don’t believe me? Check out the newsletter, Chartbook #45 adamtooze.substack.com/p/chartbook-45… https://t.co/eIvOGXsKf6

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