August 4, 2021
RT @FuturesInfinite: Adam Tooze's Chartbook #30: Back to Afghanistan – the horror of the 1980s and the long recovery, by @adam_tooze https:…
RT @FuturesInfinite: Adam Tooze's Chartbook #30: Back to Afghanistan – the horror of the 1980s and the long recovery, by @adam_tooze https:…
With Laschet melting down, CDU tanking and Greens on a bit of a roll, the German election is looking quite hard to call! So far at least the SPD has not profited at all. twitter.com/COdendahl/stat…
RT @enricviladv: Bona peça d'@adam_tooze entrant en les complexitats de l'última revisió estratègica del BCE. "Monetary policy cannot achi…
RT @archeohistories: Mark Twain National Forest People pose in front of the 1,300-year-old, 331-foot tall – Sequoia tree known as "Mark Tw…
RT @yayitsrob: This from @adam_tooze seems like the heart of it: “On balance, Powell and his relatively conservative construal of the Fed’s…
Through 1970s, the populations of Iraq & Afghanistan were on similar trajectories. They are similar today. A huge divergence opened up between them … in the 1980s. Chartbook #29 and #30 dig deeper on the Afghan side. adamtooze.substack.com/p/adam-toozes-… https://t.co/B4BrVnufX2
The persistence of Nazi language of “performance” (Leistung) into the post 1945 period is an interesting phenomenon. But is this one of those "born in Wilhelmine/Weimar-generalized in NS" things? twitter.com/Sonntagssozio/…
@Alan_Allport @Airminded @JonathanBoff @MatrixGames_SPA @ForeignPolicy Exactly. It was about knowing the system, the implied model …
@Alan_Allport @OberstWKlink @JozefPryzma @MatrixGames_SPA @ForeignPolicy Precisely
"From India’s perspective, it was Afghanistan that was on top of the agenda. apprehensions that the US has failed to take New Delhi’s views into account” H. Pant orfonline.org/research/anton… Pakistan, Iran, Tajikistan all braced! Sign up for Chartbook #30 here: adamtooze.substack.com/p/adam-toozes-… https://t.co/Cj8vLH6ALR
@OberstWKlink @Alan_Allport @JozefPryzma @MatrixGames_SPA @ForeignPolicy And oh no … obviously need time for a more considered response but this isn’t at all convincing. Doesn’t establish the metabolism of the overall railway system in the background. Causality is back of envelop estimate of train numbers and then "for want of nail".
@Alan_Allport @JozefPryzma @MatrixGames_SPA @ForeignPolicy Wow. Thanks for cite. Gotta check that out. If you think about the numbers involved it is wildly implausible. But this is clearly something I have to read.
@Alan_Allport @JozefPryzma @MatrixGames_SPA @ForeignPolicy Hi @Alan_Allport though this claim is often made and one should obviously not dismiss it lightly, I don’t believe it to be true. The logistical demands are by standards of OKH rather small and to best of my knowledge troops always had priority.
In 1977 Afghanistan was a 15% urban, 85% rural low-income society. By 1987 44% of pop displaced. Countryside depopulated -> rural pop crashed to 23% v. 23% urban. 9% dead! Analogous disruption? Poland 1945? Cambodia in 1970s? For more: Chartbook #30. adamtooze.substack.com/p/adam-toozes-… https://t.co/cK2uAHdajn
@JozefPryzma @Alan_Allport @MatrixGames_SPA @ForeignPolicy You are right. Causality runs operations -> Holocaust not the other way around. Likewise operations -> POW/logistical constraints-> mass starvation. Overarching link is Hunger Plan which has wide-ranging implications for military planning.
After Chartbook #29 I had Afghanistan on my mind. In Chartbook #30 I dig deeper. The story just gets more and more extreme! Check it out here: adamtooze.substack.com/p/adam-toozes-… https://t.co/4wskliGQb8
“The most painful moment is yet to come” grim reading on Afghanistan this morning. ft.com/content/bc79c3… Pairs well with NEW Chartbook #30 digging deeper into Afghanistan’s demographic data and history. adamtooze.substack.com/p/adam-toozes-… https://t.co/ZqeIp29VuG
@ConradChristoph @HugoCadenas7 @PhilippHoelzing @SConrad20 @sfb_comparing Hi all, this was a get together of the history and philosophy departments, which in 1980 were being grouped together into a single combined Faculty.
@BuddyYakov @irl_neil @policytensor @njtmulder @70sBachchan @STOmarova @vebaccount @HumanityJ Kennedy challenged Carter for Democratic nomination in 1980 on ticket that included gas rationing!
Heart goes out to these people. Terrifying situation. twitter.com/70sBachchan/st…
@HGWDavie @MatrixGames_SPA @ForeignPolicy @mark4harrison Don’t have any problem with any of the above. A properly complex account would clearly take account of all of this.
RT @M_C_Klein: Fascinating essay on Libya since 2011, featuring, among other things, the unusual role played by the Libyan central bank: h…
"Sabotage, after all, is not incompatible with social distancing." You gotta hand it to Malm. He has a way with words, English words. His 2nd? 3rd? language. Malm, Andreas. How to Blow Up a Pipeline (p. 8). Verso Books. Kindle Edition. https://t.co/iVgJYkk5fD
Bielefeld in its pomp: 1980 – Koselleck (third from left), Kocka (5th) and Wehler (6th) One for @SConrad20 and @ConradChristoph aktuell.uni-bielefeld.de/chronik/new-di… Brings a rousing conclusion to Chartbook Top Links #7 Sign up here: adamtooze.substack.com/p/adam-tooze-t… https://t.co/xtNohDZb0i
@OberstWKlink @Alan_Allport @MatrixGames_SPA @ForeignPolicy @Airminded Thank you. @Alan_Allport pointed me in the same direction.
RT @LiatSpiro: @anticartelhist @adam_tooze @jamiemartin2 @BundesarchivD @shaun_EconHis But the Bundesarchiv has its industrial trade gems a…
@anticartelhist @LiatSpiro @jamiemartin2 @BundesarchivD @shaun_EconHis Might be richer material in archives of some of the key corporate players in the Maschinenbau space. Hanomag I seem to remember has a solid archive. Have you checked out the East German machine tool builders? Behind the Verbaende are always the firms.
@anticartelhist @LiatSpiro @jamiemartin2 @BundesarchivD @shaun_EconHis I did go to the VDMA archive ages ago … Frankfurt non? Or no longer? Not much there for what I was interested in – ueber-niche: industrial association statistics. Trade was pivotal for them. You are dead right.
Chatbook Top Link #7 just dropped. THAT piece by @drezner on @QuincyInst Globalization shifts gear Picasso & the moon landing And a killer photo of the Bielefeld history department in 1980. Unmissable stuff! For all the Chartbook goodies sign up here: adamtooze.substack.com https://t.co/jwul1GWrvv
@ADragoons Precisely the questions that the Wehrmacht planners ran through in early 1941!
President Bukele of El Salvador wants to drive bitcoin mining with geothermal energy from tapped volcanoes! Are we going to call it the lava standard? reuters.com/technology/el-… https://t.co/VsWavcUFpu
Is Fear of Fiat Real? In a survey by the El Salvador Chamber of Commerce and Industry, more than 90% did not want to be obliged to accept bitcoin as payment. ft.com/content/c36c45… camarasal.com/wp-content/upl… https://t.co/HmPYApmtTQ
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