What caused the Asian currency and financial crisis? This report from Jan 1998 by Corsetti, Pesenti and Roubini is really useful for anyone looking for a lucid and not excessively technical overview. Great stuff. newyorkfed.org/medialibrary/m… https://t.co/8Xi12kvNkb
"Performative belligerence is not bounded by the limits of what can be achieved. Its main function, indeed, is the denial of reality.” Fintan O’Toole utterly brilliant on Brexit. theguardian.com/commentisfree/… https://t.co/fLBGKUiab0
When a @WorldBank team of economists made first trip to China in the early 1980s they found a society primed for rapid growth, industrialized but not urbanized, educated and basically healthy but poor. Read Chartbook #28 on a miracle waiting to happen. adamtooze.substack.com/p/adam-toozes-… https://t.co/07R6ThrfGC
Northern Irish protocol “requires Johnson and his government to do something that goes against the grain of the whole Brexit project: to acknowledge that choices have costs.” Fintan O’Toole in devastating form. theguardian.com/commentisfree/… https://t.co/2NMS67kBMN
@ThorstenHild So much more to say. Lim is the key link btw China and World Bank. But I may need to do another post 🙂
A great discussion of German debt brake and the options opened up by @PhilippaSigl and colleagues in their recent paper on German fiscal policy. Yet another reason to subscribe to @M_C_Klein Overshoot. theovershoot.co/p/how-to-impro… https://t.co/bDfyAKOJ8t
22% of the German population (with and without citizenship) are migrants or children of migrants. destatis.de/DE/Service/Sta… https://t.co/BXd8hNkkbG
“Failure to agree a G-20 climate communique would be a stark warning for COP26,” @TomEvansClimate on the disappointing outcome Naples. aljazeera.com/economy/2021/7… https://t.co/raBRjg1asv
Gotta love investigative reporting that reveals hidden aluminum production in Indian smelters. Amazing stuff from Manesh c. Donia for @thecaravanindia caravanmagazine.in/business/alumi… https://t.co/w9ZkJ7NrML
€30m pa spent on lobbying EU iBlackRock & 23 groups it belongs to have the means to make their voices heard. They’ve collectively answered to 22 EU public consultations related to sustainable finance and resisted tough regulations. @ReclaimFinance reclaimfinance.org/site/en/2021/0… https://t.co/QBcn7fUUII
China: A miracle waiting to happen? In 1983 @WorldBank reported on its socialist economic development. Compared to other lic it had made huge strides in basic health care and education laying basis for rapid growth. Check out Chartbook #28 here: adamtooze.substack.com/p/adam-toozes-… https://t.co/JGhL1JEoJJ
When China rejoined @WorldBank in 1980 a team of economists were dispatched to take stock of China’s Socialist Economic Development. What did they find? Chartbook Newsletter #28 explores a remarkable snapshot of China on the cusp of economic revolution. adamtooze.substack.com https://t.co/1OnbTHTabc
RT @kevinziyizhao: @adam_tooze My 3 articles became the basis of my Master degree thesis, with the abstract here (sorry for very poor Engli…
China sanctions former US commerce secretary Wilbur Ross …at first I thought I had the wrong date, then I began to get ideas 🙂 aljazeera.com/economy/2021/7… https://t.co/EXimRsEE1e
‘The Maoist or red legacy is no cutesy epiphenomenon worthy simply of a cultural studies’ or po-mo “reading”…..” Wow this is quite an essay by Geremie R. Barmé! H/t @GavJacobson chinaheritage.net/journal/red-al… https://t.co/hi7pOJw9Er
@kevinziyizhao Very cool …. Any chance you have a copy of the report? Would love to put it out there. Documents of that period are so fascinating.
RT @NNnadramija: Un buen resumen de los logros de la China Comunista entre 1950-1979. Avanzaron con bases para un desarrollo posterior. htt…
If you enjoyed the long read in @NewStatesman on China’s 20th century struggle for economic development …. Check out the latest Chartbook Newsletter #28 which does a deep dive into the 1st @WorldBank 1983 assessment of China’s socialist development model. newstatesman.com/international/… https://t.co/YAWijGRijx
So true …. Even worse are the ideas you have at 2 am! twitter.com/DuncanWeldon/s…
China in 1983, a miracle waiting to happen? Chartbook #28 just dropped. Sign up here: adamtooze.substack.com/p/adam-toozes-… A companion to my essay in @NewStatesman on China’s long 20th century. newstatesman.com/international/… https://t.co/Rt4lyavsJY
In 1960, 960k young Chinese were enrolled in University. By 1970 thanks to the cultural revolution the number had crashed to 48k! For more astonishing data from the 1983 World Bank report, sign up for Chartbook #28 coming out at the weekend. adamtooze.substack.com https://t.co/upZraRmesq
RT @MusilTweets: German Jobs Miracle chart is striking. Q for the sociologists: To what extent is the part-time bias reflective of a growin…
China’s most significant export in 1980? Anyone …? CRUDE OIL … by a vast margin the most significant item in the balance. For more impressive data from the World Bank 1983 report sign up for Chartbook Newsletter and get the email at the weekend. adamtooze.substack.com https://t.co/9m65LEE9Rq
In 1980 26.5% of China’s exports were ….mineral fuels and oils! documents1.worldbank.org/curated/en/192… https://t.co/J5MgR4Hks1
@ShanuMathew93 @vegilasagna Excellent. Thanks for the elucidation. As a non physicist/engineer one looks at this and goes “this must be a lot more complicated than I think”.
RT @gbrew24: This from @adam_tooze is great, but this passage jumped out: beneath the rhetoric of what China might be, it's important to re…
RT @jwdwerner: Those of you with hopes for a progressive future for the United States who are pushing confrontation with China—please consi…
RT @yayitsrob: I’m not from Ohio, but the first time I visited Cleveland I was shocked that I’d never heard of the Guardians of Traffic bef…
@rosharma08 @NewStatesman @IsabellaMWeber Except one of the contributors to @jordanschnyc podcast … 🙂 fascinating that!
RT @Jderbyshire: Excellent piece by @adam_tooze on, inter alia, how China escaped shock therapy after '89. twitter.com/NewStatesman/s…
England’s relatively centralized National Health Service generates a treasure trove of data. So who is it being shared with? Fascinating @FT investigation. ft.com/content/6f9f6f… https://t.co/prYYWD03ns
How private satellites and part-time analysts found a cluster of Chinese ICBM sites under construction. bloomberg.com/news/articles/… https://t.co/KpnsI1aGMQ
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