February 21, 2021
When Marianne Weber got excited about big ideas she say that she had “raisins in her head” (Rosinen im Kopf) Like in a bun or something. WHAT a great phrase! https://t.co/fWK5zDt6hU
When Marianne Weber got excited about big ideas she say that she had “raisins in her head” (Rosinen im Kopf) Like in a bun or something. WHAT a great phrase! https://t.co/fWK5zDt6hU
In Aug 1915, when in wartime Heidelberg neither Stefan George or Max Weber had anyone at home "to look after them”, they both checked into a Pension and used the opportunity for discussion with each other. Imagine the Fawlty Towers episode! Radkau, Max Weber https://t.co/JEtC0RgwaG
RT @WeDontHaveTime: The Gulf Stream has slowed down by up to 20 percent! The northern part of the Gulf Stream is weakening and global warm…
RT @ahistoryinart: 'Early Summer Hop-Garden.' (c1955) Seldom can the early and the later phases of a major artist's work contrast more star…
RT @ITM_archives: [1/4] The Regia Marina was officially born on 17 March 1861, the same day as the proclamation of the Kingdom of Italy, al…
RT @ATabarrok: The Pfizer plant in Michigan is working 3 shifts, 24 hours a day, 7 days a week with no break for holidays. Why aren’t vacci…
RT @ahistoryinart: In Frank Dobson's 1944 painting, factory workers descend an escalator to Plessey's underground factory which moved its o…
RT @ChrisKempshall: The Battle of Verdun began 105 years ago. The longest-running battle of the #FWW, it had a profound impact on both the…
There were/are many Bielefeld schools of history (1) Wehler/Kocka obs (2) Koselleck But my favorite, is (3) Joachim Radkau: consistently provocative, original, endlessly intellectually fertile. de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joachim_R… https://t.co/ljxQp4nSy6
Lega leadership pivots to back Draghi: The northern Italian entrepreneurs who form the party’s historic base are far more focused on improving the economy and cutting taxes, and were never much enamoured of Salvini’s anti-euro agitation ft.com/content/3cf584… https://t.co/M19gM3Cab8
More than a fifth of higher value homes put up for sale in S. Africa in 2020 were being sold by families looking to emigrate. bloomberg.com/news/articles/… https://t.co/FAzIQNWdqL
Faced with the “anthropocene” are we Albert Speer in 1943 grotesquely applauding the triumphs of a suicidal armaments miracle? @BrunoLatourAIME watches an Arte docu heavily based on Wages of Destruction. @70sBachchan @yayitsrob @tedfertik @policytensor twitter.com/BrunoLatourAIM…
SPD party conference Breslau October 6-12, 1895: from left to right) August Bebel (1840-1913), Werner Sombart (1863-1941), and Friedrich Naumann (1860-1919) @kulturSPK ghdi.ghi-dc.org/sub_image.cfm?… https://t.co/AIT7B0FSS7
“I can’t imagine a lower-priority use of federal resources than improving consumer balance sheets,” Larry Summers Feb 2021. bloomberg.com/news/articles/… https://t.co/J1fhfWTizT
Real yields on US 10 year bonds are moving upwards but from a very low base in negative territory, into which they were already sliding in 2019! bloomberg.com/news/articles/… https://t.co/1VzpgK8nvD
IMF @GitaGopinath doesn’t think there is serious risk of inflation in the US in 2021 as a result of stimulus. @IMFNews bloomberg.com/news/articles/… https://t.co/zy4dcwNZVi
Fiscal stimulus in 2020-21 is like nothing we have ever seen before. @bcaresearch via @SoberLook https://t.co/QVQwC6VMwI
Not your usual EM crisis. Every major EM central bank cut interest rates in spring 2020 in face of historic capital flight. @IMFNews via @SoberLook https://t.co/IikZUJouqg
There are huge disparities in vaccine delivery in US cities. Ultimately, vaccine delivery is supply constrained. But allocation is demand-driven. You race to get your shot. Has anyone tried to quantify relative impact of these two factors? @Claire_Bushey ft.com/content/7b0db8… https://t.co/1r8yfuDtva
Dirty QE: ECB set to disappoint campaigners on climate change Limited enthusiasm on central bank’s governing council for green asset purchases This, I fear, was predictable. ft.com/content/ef64a2… https://t.co/SXSHdebqXj
With banks flooded with liquidity, the overnight repo rate is negative again. @SoberLook https://t.co/4P7aiQnv4Y
RT @clark_aviation: Biggles…flies undone! 😂 Playground jokes aside, these novels were important inspiration to a whole generation of 'air…
Hong Kong’s unemployment rate is surging spectacularly. @SoberLook https://t.co/s1nFo3vagf
RT @70sBachchan: "In 2017, a meme was born in a think tank in N India: Chinese ‘debt-trap diplomacy’. This meme quickly spread through the…
In June 2020, the armies of the two most populous countries on earth engaged in hand to hand combat, armed with batons and shields! twitter.com/evazhengll/sta…
Walter Rathenau once called vanity the ‘progressive taxation of the mind’ Radkau, Joachim. Max Weber . Wiley. Kindle Edition. https://t.co/2FeTaLwWFj
RT @ummodern: My Socio-Economic Review paper, The Emergence of Systemic Risk, is finally out! Especially excited about it, bc it solves an…
RT @ummodern: To conclude, I invite scholars to pay attention to the co-productive dynamics that shape the state and the economy simultaneo…
Sage market analysts are now warning of a “green bubble” as money surges into renewable energy stocks. ft.com/content/0a3d0a… https://t.co/fSVKDchey3
German furlough schemes continue to support. c. 2.75m workers increasingly in most hard hit industries. ft.com/content/7be9a0… https://t.co/cXrUdksDL0
The size of the corona shock to the EU labour market was effectively disguised by the worksharing/furlough schemes. ft.com/content/7be9a0… https://t.co/MuaxXXJpWQ
How Brexit deflected the outlook for the UK population. @OxfordEconomics via @SoberLook https://t.co/OSiPQocZ2R
Goldman Sachs doesn’t fear overheating. Impact of stimulus will taper off quickly. But 2021 should be huge! @GoldmanSachs via @SoberLook https://t.co/q6on6ck4UI
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