ADAM TOOZE

Just as the League’s appeal is waning, the far-right Brothers of Italy — the only opposition party — enjoy more public support nationwide than any other Italian party (23 per cent in recent polls) ft.com/content/5805c3… Politico polling data: politico.eu/europe-poll-of… https://t.co/aqbSHC6SQf

When we talk about supply-chain bottlenecks, inflation etc. it is important not to forget the intermediate link of booming profit margins raked in by firms in the middle! ft.com/content/66777e… https://t.co/6yjs6fNhin

This week, the better half is in the Bahamas with a nail gun and fifty feet of pressure hose driving our recovery from hurricane Dorian. Me, I’m in a rainy NYC teaching Sidney Mintz on the historical anthropology of …. the capitalist Caribbean … hmm. https://t.co/bZcGTxsmO4

"American officials said Katherine Tai, US trade representative, would soon hold direct talks with Liu He, her Chinese counterpart, to discuss “phase 1” deal reached in January 2020 & other US trade concerns.” Dont hold your breath. ft.com/content/9bb005… https://t.co/2QandYskMz

New Japanese PM Kishida chose Univ of Tokyo/Harvard-trained Takayuki Kobayashi, a former vice-minister of defence, for the newly created post of minister for economic security. ft.com/content/7dfbd4… https://t.co/S53XA0VcVU

RT @boell_stiftung: Am Donnerstag, 07.10. um 20 Uhr spricht der Wirtschaftshistoriker @adam_tooze mit @hsc55 und Barbara Unmüßig über sein…

"Tapie became a symbol of les années fric (the money years) in 1980s Socialist-led France” ft.com/content/28aa46… https://t.co/ehsyAx21Hr

@DanielaGabor Martin Daunton has great stuff in his work on 1920s struggles over taxation on precisely this point. The widowed pensioner as the battering ram of finance capital.

RT @JonathanBoff: Going through Woodrow Wilson papers online and I’m loving the fact that in late 1916 anyway he seemed to get about one le…

RT @vpalsmith33: Why? Purpose of a uni is to fund knowledge that doesn't have immediate private sector application because it will advance…

@DanielaGabor This truly the classic line: "a small but positive real interest rate would allow small-time savers to start building a nest egg. That’s a worthy goal no matter what your politics." Seriously ….

RT @DanielaGabor: Oh look, a giant strawman called the 'Left', again roaming the pages of the FT. Keynes is rolling under his Kill the Re…

Within two tweets of each other in my feed The Z Machine & the vaccine: We can simulate the fusion reaction inside a thermonuclear bomb but we cannot put vaccines in the arms of every person on the planet. @AJBousquet @NOIweala https://t.co/o2QST4L70e

RT @sovietvisuals: "Technical Aesthetics" Soviet magazine cover, 1966 https://t.co/mlZhsXscHV

This is an incredible resource: Complete IMT Nuremberg records digitized Thank you @Stanford exhibits.stanford.edu/virtual-tribun… https://t.co/6D0FCdRq5v

@MattiKahra @ediecontooze @ezraklein Thank you. You may find the Chartbook Newsletter of interest. Sign up here: adamtooze.substack.com

Perhaps of interest @ediecontooze twitter.com/AntonJaegermm/…

RT @Sustainable2050: Aerial view of flooding in coastal towns Al Khaburah and Al Masnaah in Oman, due to tropical cyclone #Shaheen. https:…

RT @BadStairlift: @adam_tooze Sorry to be that guy but Bergson left a year before Proust arrived. Bizet's son was a classmate, and they see…

@BadStairlift Thanks. As a teacher – I wasn’t taking this too literally. I was actually thinking about the classes I’ve taught myself 😉

"We’ve got these two bright boys … Proust …. and what’s the other one? Oh yes, Bergson …. “. Just a day in the life of a Lycée teacher in 1880s Paris.. twitter.com/EtheHerring/st…

RT @geoffmanaugh: Holy crap. Malware hidden in a strand of DNA hijacks the computer that analyzes that particular gene sequence. https://t.…

RT @peelersandsheep: Royal Irish Constabulary barracks, Cahersiveen, south-west Ireland – built in the early 1870s to defend the transatlan…

RT @tracyalloway: CHINA EVERGRANDE SHARES SUSPENDED IN HONG KONG bloomberg.com/news/articles/…

RT @julian_bank: Vermögensungleichheit in Deutschland. Immer wieder aufs Neue kaum fassbar: – Den reichsten 10% gehört mehr als die Hälfte…

The line that runs from DSK to Macron is too easily underrated. twitter.com/Pr_Logos/statu…

Health inequalities in Scotland are simply staggering. twitter.com/WillBall12/sta…

RT @GeorgZachmann: Still the largest solar concentrator in the world. Up to 3000°C. "Things are good in Chevengur now. We have mobilized t…

RT @Jderbyshire: This is an excellent survey of the career of the late Jean-Luc Nancy, which rightly emphasises the influence on him of Gér…

RT @jrwdevisser: Very good podcast, I always learn something from listening to @adam_tooze twitter.com/DavidZipper/st…

RT @DavidZipper: Weekend factoid: Prior to World War II, Germany had 125 mi/hr train service between Hamburg and Berlin. Today, Amtrak's A…

RT @maxkrahe: I love it when a book opens with an absolute banger: https://t.co/Oa2Didj4LT

At the Columbia-Princeton game this afternoon! It’s rocking… Ivy League football might be my sweet spot 😉 https://t.co/5Oo0T6wwUp

@Jderbyshire He did a whole series of talks with the usual suspects. @BrankoMilan I think as well. Plus a regular series of seminars with our German colleagues.

@izakaminska @haajmen @tomashirstecon @DanielaGabor @Shahinvallee Yup. This is a multi-level game. Thats what an intelligent media system requires: readers, writers & editors who play competently & constructively at every level. I’m surprised you don’t welcome it. I mean, look, your readers really care! Why turn this into a matter of rights?

@izakaminska @tomashirstecon @DanielaGabor @Shahinvallee The "divine right" of editors …..