January 13, 2023
Won't deny that taking on the economic philosophy of Martin Luther King was daunting proposition! twitter.com/OnesandToozePo…
Won't deny that taking on the economic philosophy of Martin Luther King was daunting proposition! twitter.com/OnesandToozePo…
RT @DanielEdEnglish: @adam_tooze as brilliant as always this morning. Quite impossible to quote king without getting a bit impassioned http…
Fantastic day of discussion in Berlin. Great to meet you @LindnerJS twitter.com/LindnerJS/stat…
RT @MCanalN: You should always read @adam_tooze chartbooks (and books!) because they are fascinating. But you should read them even more wh…
RT @Brad_Setser: The Saudis and Chinese need to step up with new financing, or Pakistan almost certainly will need a broad restructuring.…
RT @jainfamilyinst: New from @phenomenalworld and @UChicagoPress: Phenomenal World Books, a new book series on political economy and the cr…
Chartbook: Microregions that drive global growth, America's credit boom & rebel dogs adamtooze.substack.com/p/microregions…
Chartbook: Top links 149 Microregions that drive global growth, America's credit boom & rebel dogs adamtooze.substack.com/p/top-links-14…
RT @IrishLitTimes: The last picture taken of David Bowie. By his wife, Iman, on his birthday, 8th January 2016 – 2 days before his death. h…
RT @bpkaracsonyg: Together with Prague Mayor @ZdenekHrib, Bratislava Mayor @matusvallo and Warsaw Mayor @trzaskowski_, we have spent 17 hou…
RT @matthew_pines: This is just *prescriptions*. How many more take it off the books? Is half of the workforce and student population on t…
RT @fasc1nate: Anthropologist and cryptozoologist Grover Krantz donated his body along with his dog to science when he died. They're curren…
@SCINET_CEO @bronwynwilliams @dionchang Funny to read those words cut free from their author.
RT @aygoswami: @rishpardikar The mainstream rhetoric is all about private finance and derisking, not grant-based public finance at all. Wei…
RT @rishpardikar: When question relates to "developed countries have not kept their word on climate financing", I wonder why the response i…
@TroelsSkadhauge Sure, but fallaciously concretized in the sequence inflation-debt. The fact that it purports to be a political economy is NOT incidental. Nor is the fact that it does not make sense.
IMF is currently withholding a $1bn funding tranche from Pakistan which denies that it is at immediate risk of default. ft.com/content/a96fbd… https://t.co/aj3wQrjQZt
Private jet use remains well above pre-covid levels. ft.com/content/efd7a9… https://t.co/UPLrNn7p7Z
Boss of South African power producer Eskom survived cyanide poisoning attempt in December likely by criminal syndicates that are milking the power producer. ft.com/content/2c3cb5… https://t.co/IOWypU7Hcg
"Just how costly [technical default] can be is evident in a 1979 episode when Treasury inadvertently missed payments on Treasury bills … in part due to problems with word processing equipment" !!!!! Zandi via Unhedged @rbrtrmstrng @EthanYWu ft.com/content/e2c083…
Notwithstanding $9bn in aid pledges, Pakistan's fx reserves have dwindled to $5.6bn, down from $10bn in June and covering just one month’s worth of imports ft.com/content/a96fbd… https://t.co/89uhI3HJ9m
Chartbook: When America defaulted, Pakistan's crisis & Raiders of the Lost Ark adamtooze.substack.com/p/when-america…
"Five senior Chinese officials with knowledge of the issue have told the FT at different times over the past nine months that Moscow did not inform Beijing of its intention to launch a full invasion of Ukraine before Putin ordered the attack." ft.com/content/e59203…
RT @geosteinsoc: One of the greatest books of social theory, published 100 years ago, and still not translated into English: Ernst Troeltsc…
RT @yuanyi_z: The National Library of Australia may shut down Trove, its astonishingly good digital archive, due to funding cuts. For all t…
RT @CarbonWrangler: Finally read this whole gem. 20 minutes or so in total. Masterful, insightful, engaging. Bravo & kudos once more, @Th…
@jdportes @michaelxpettis @georgemagnus1 @charlotsmoore @t0nyyates Seriously … ?!
@michaelxpettis @jdportes @georgemagnus1 @charlotsmoore @t0nyyates The general rule IS that it applies under specific conditions.
@jdportes @georgemagnus1 @michaelxpettis @charlotsmoore @t0nyyates Already in 1936 Germany is approaching full employment with military spending surging above 10% gdp. capacity constraints everywhere -> “war economy” condition is met. Extra credit/extra AD does NOT increase AS. Indeed regime economists fear repressed infection reduces AS.
@alex_callinicos Fair enough … but it really does not imply any endorsement of the Washington democracy v. autocracy framing!
© 2025 Adam Tooze. All Rights Reserved. Privacy policy. Design by Kate Marsh.