ADAM TOOZE

RT @CER_QMUL: Join us on Tuesday 1 June (16:00-17:30pm BST) for our event on 'Lessons from the Eurozone crisis: EMU limitations and nationa…

Global Public Investment – I like the agenda of this group. Does anyone know whether anything has become of it? A report was promised for early 2021. globalpublicinvestment.org https://t.co/Co3Tn3lkF8

RT @tanita_tikaram: Louis Lozowick (1892-1973) ' Birth of a Skyscraper ' 1930 ❤️ https://t.co/VxCpz2wUOn

When a talk-show host once portentously asked what qualities Merkel associated with Germany, she dryly answered, “Well-sealed windows.” @ConStelz has Merkel down to a T! foreignaffairs.com/articles/europ… https://t.co/o5H2wBFXVG

“It’s like working next to a nuclear power plant. It just runs, and runs, and runs.” @ConStelz piece on Angela Merkel’s mode of governance is worth your time! foreignaffairs.com/articles/europ… https://t.co/ufTgRDH36U

If China wants to have any chance of being compatible with a 1.5 degree world by 2060, it needs to take coal out of its energy mix in the 2030s. @CarbonBrief reading of Duan et al 2021 consistent with “silent consensus” diagnosed by @EmberClimate for AE. carbonbrief.org/chinas-2060-cl… https://t.co/8S8ZDpEORj

If Draghi’s Italian government can deliver this growth path, NextGenEU will go down as a success. It isnt revolution but it would be a big step in the right direction. Failing to deliver it would compound decades of profound disappointment. ft.com/content/28c329… https://t.co/dqzMOR98W0

To be consistent with a world of only 1.5 degree warming, China would need to cut emissions by 90%, energy consumption by 39% and invest heavily in CCS. Great @CarbonBrief discussion of important Duan et al 2021 paper. carbonbrief.org/chinas-2060-cl… https://t.co/FTZwNb89xN

Moving to net zero may not hurt as much as we think Technical challenge is huge, but result need not feel like a revolution. It is failure that will upend normality catastrophically. ft.com/content/a5318c… Delighted to agree with @MESandbu on this. socialeurope.eu/europes-decarb… https://t.co/HCVM5QPGnr

Environmentalists Decry Campaign of ‘Intimidation’ By Irish Politicians And Agri-Industry Over New Cheese Factory. Yup its the new frontier of climate pol Econ. Seriously: Expanding Ireland’s dairy industry DOES put the country’s climate goals at risk. desmog.com/2021/04/15/env… https://t.co/Ko2hz3AkAu

2020 was terrible for young people but the collapse in employment for those 15-24 after 2008 in Italy and Spain still stands out as Europe’s true disaster of early 21st century. ft.com/content/efc4de… https://t.co/H9t0AV3e1e

In light of flux in German politics we need an update on Joachim Jachnow’s great “What’s become of the German Greens?” Piece of 2013 from @NewLeftReview newleftreview.org/issues/ii81/ar… https://t.co/LrACopk5uK

At an April 21 summit on semiconductor resilience, Pres Biden quoted a bipartisan letter from senators and House members warning that CP was “aggressively planning to reorient and dominate the semiconductor supply chain”. He promised to respond In kind. ft.com/content/7ddb6c… https://t.co/yMJ66TPepv

@Esang_Ekarika Do you disagree with the analysis of the article I link to?

"The Covid-19 pandemic has unleashed more nationalist feelings worldwide causing countries to increase their military spending, according to the chief executive of Swedish defence group Saab.” @rmilneNordic ft.com/content/9b0cba… https://t.co/eh4x8enNbo

Boko Haram grabs the headlines but the majority of abductions in Nigeria in 2020 were by communal militia. ft.com/content/d8d9bf… https://t.co/Wn3ZMTAXdI

RT @tedfertik: Seriously though. How loud do we have to shout on twitter that $1tn over 8 years for decarbonization won’t cut it before the…

RT @conor64: The quickest, easiest way that America could help marginalized people and advance global equity right now is to give away the…

RT @fipaddict: J’étais passé à côté de ce superbe papier d’@adam_tooze sur l’évolution intellectuelle de Paul Krugman et du camp démocrate.…

@tianran Thank you.

RT @LuGuangMing: Lisbon 25 April – Guinea Bissau June 1945 https://t.co/l0eIWBf3sB

In October 2020 the World Bank pledged $12bn for vaccines and their roll-outs globally, but as of April 20th it had approved projects worth only $2bn. Just seven of them are in Africa. What is holding this up? economist.com/middle-east-an… https://t.co/LGNuDM0IqB

Vaccine supply is a huge problem for Africa. But of 45 countries for which the WHO has data, 32 have used less than half of their vaccines. Safe delivery poses huge problems. As does limited uptake. Ghana, Angola, Rwanda appear to have models that work. economist.com/middle-east-an… https://t.co/q8ERox97qP

Vaccine makers have warned US officials that temporarily scrapping patents for Covid-19 shots would risk handing mRNA technology to China and Russia … you kind knew this was coming didn’t you! Last refuge of scoundrels etc. ft.com/content/fa1e0d… https://t.co/xEi4d5Xtgr

Russia has international reserves of $596bn. Share held on American territory fell from 30% in 2013 to just 7% now. It has more of its overall reserves in gold (24%) than in dollars (22%) economist.com/briefing/2021/… https://t.co/zSglH5krHX

in 2012-19, Russian gdp growth averaged just 1% = half the rate the Soviet Union saw from 1977 to 1985, the era known as “Stagnation”. Plus energy transition isnt going to be pretty! @TheEconomist paints Putin as a stranded autocrat. economist.com/weeklyedition/… https://t.co/tcsVPbSi1Z

Britain has 2nd-largest legal market in world after America, at $51bn by fee revenue. As @KatharinaPistor has shown Brit commercial law is key to global capitalism. Can it reinvent itself for new wave of globalization post Brexit? economist.com/britain/2021/0… https://t.co/OL5njznf1u

@debye_huckel Hi, Söder is a talented “Alpine populist”. There is a constituency for that in Germany too. politico.eu/article/markus…

Russian real incomes fell by 3.5% in 2020 -> average income 10% down on 2013. After a 6-week lockdown nearly 1/2 of households had little or no savings. Food prices have risen by 7.7% since Feb 2020. Grim econ news is backdrop to Putin’s declining support. economist.com/briefing/2021/… https://t.co/0LnuDBx5eh

"In nur-sultan, capital of Kazakhstan, there is a small corner of England. The gleaming court of the Astana International Financial Centre, an investment zone opened in 2019, is led by a British CEO, and served by 9 British judges” One for @KatharinaPistor economist.com/britain/2021/0… https://t.co/5Cg5H5PhX8

“To put it mildly,” Werner Hoyer, president of the European Investment Bank, declared in January, “gas is over.” economist.com/business/2021/… https://t.co/UoHWQCOtEO

Two polls out of Germany now put Greens ahead of CDU. H/t @OlafStorbeck twitter.com/OlafStorbeck/s…

Just one poll but it has the Greens ahead of CDU! twitter.com/EuropeElects/s…

RT @DanielaGabor: 15 months ago, in conversation with @MESandbu I warned that EU's Green Deal, with its Green Third Way approach to nudging…

RT @DanielaGabor: the Taxonomy is now even more indefensible than the private ESG metrics for green financial instruments https://t.co/Oj9…

If anyone is pushing depolarization of trade it is Russia: Less than half of Russia’s trade with China is settled in dollars. In trade with the eu, the euro has almost overtaken the dollar. economist.com/briefing/2021/… https://t.co/Tna0haNHgv