January 8, 2023
Chartbook: Clash of chip titans, Nokia risk, deciphering the Nazi war economy & the tyrannical concept of feudalism adamtooze.substack.com/p/clash-of-chi…
Chartbook: Clash of chip titans, Nokia risk, deciphering the Nazi war economy & the tyrannical concept of feudalism adamtooze.substack.com/p/clash-of-chi…
@alex_callinicos Plus you've only really got me if I had called it the political economy of "autocracy" … when those words cross my lips or my keyboard please shoot me! Ill need putting out of my misery.
RT @VatsRishap: "For him (Götz Aly) the data confirmed that the true continuity of German history was not fanatical beliefs of any kind, bu…
@alex_callinicos Oh come now Alex that is a bit harsh … we both know I have no truck with that BS! All I am suggesting is that this well worked historical case may be a useful mental gym for thinking about how regimes maintain legitimacy. NB I explicitly include flailing western states …
RT @DiversifiedJB: . @adam_tooze Credit Suisse's Zoltan Pozsar referring to the "polycrisis" concept in his latest client note: https://t.c…
RT @simonjjacobson: @adam_tooze In the immortal words of Joe Strummer, 'The People must have something good to read on a Sunday'. The metap…
RT @portusprince: From @adam_tooze. An interesting comparison to the ancient world, where plunder was a far greater component of warmarking…
RT @michaelxpettis: 1/10 Adam's excellent piece on explicit and implicit fiscal transfers is interesting enough for students of Germany in…
That feeling when you are writing a review on the hot "new" theory of neo-feudalism and you realize that many smart medievalists actually avoid the term feudalism like the plague! Jason Adam Katzenstein for @NewYorker https://t.co/9a21k4OqQh
RT @milos_agathon: My new map shows the % of employed in manufacturing, using Eurostat's latest data. 🏭👨🏭👩🏭 #manufacturing #industry #Eu…
RT @AiyarYamini: Ahead of the Union Budget, a trip down memory lane to tell the story of what led me into the complex world of tracking Ind…
RT @historydefined: Carmen Amaya was one of the greatest Flamenco dancers of all time. She was the first female flamenco dancer to master f…
@DanielaGabor TBC nothing in this argument hinges on any special link btw saving, loanable funds and investment. It is simply a matter of an upper ceiling on output – you name it they found it – so that more war spending crowds out consump AND investment. Do we disagree about that? Hope not.
RT @Arnold_Platon: Interview with Levada Center director. Absolutely bleak insight into Russian public opinion about the war. And the cha…
If you are in NYC right now & like your art history, make sure to see the shows at the @metmuseum Hear Me Now: The Black Potters of Old Edgefield, South Carolina will stop you in your tracks. Small show, would love to see more, but it packs such a punch! metmuseum.org/exhibitions/li… https://t.co/3Sq70SIswz
If you are in the NYC area right now and like your art history make sure you see the shows at the @metmuseum The Cubism show is truly an inspired piece in curation. Really mind-altering! metmuseum.org https://t.co/ddtS7kheGM
@OberstWKlink Yeah I am truly an admirer of Aly's work on Generplan etc. Vordenker with Heim is a truly fabulous work of history. Transformative.
RT @yarbatman: 1. Because of financial sanctions, capital can’t easily flee Iran. So when there is turmoil, you get really perverse effects…
Buying time? How perplexities about debt link Goetz Aly's "Hitler's Beneficiaries" and Wolfang Streeck's "Buying time". See Chartbook Newsletter #186 adamtooze.substack.com/p/chartbook-18… https://t.co/Esz0h3qEMx
As Schumpeter said you, if you know how to listen, you can hear the thunder of world history in the fiscal balance. But you do have to know how to listen. Chartbook #186 on the politics of interpreting the authoritarian fiscal balance. adamtooze.substack.com/p/chartbook-18… https://t.co/2NkaToFKnF
RT @bataille_chris: The Germans do amazing things with their old industrial sites. I visited one of the oldest BFs in the world (Volkingen…
RT @fichtner_jan: 👀Must see in 🇩🇪! Huge Thyssen steel mill site in Duisburg converted into a "landscape park" with playgrounds, climbing w…
@DanielaGabor Of course in a monetary economy credit system creates purchasing power. The issue, in a war economy, is whether it can be translated into anything other than inflation. What you cant do is make more consumer goods. That constraint is enforced by SS e.g. 1943 Posen speeches.
RT @paulmasonnews: British defence policy is at a fork in the road. As the 3rd PM in 6 months grapples with how to ditch the ill-fated "Ind…
Solicitous dictatorship Did a Chartbook Newsletter on fiscal sociology, Schumpeter and the Nazi regime, riffing on work by Goet Aly and Birthe Kundrus. adamtooze.substack.com/p/chartbook-18… https://t.co/HYohYjrEmf
RT @srinathraghava3: .@adam_tooze revisits his debate with Aly. Brilliant stuff! https://t.co/SuT3pqyxhp
RT @ProfPaulPoast: How do wars end? Must the parties sit down and negotiate? Big questions with immediate relevance. To begin answering t…
RT @emmaggarland: shout out @adam_tooze for including my 2018 piece about the unique misery of "i gotta feeling" by the black eyed peas on…
Chartbook: Chartbook #186 Solicitous dictatorship. The political economy of authoritarianism – Aly v. Tooze revisited. adamtooze.substack.com/p/chartbook-18…
RT @LionHirth: When hearing "solar power", many people think of roof-top panels on single-family homes with a battery in the basement and a…
Almost half of Africa’s 1.4bn people lack access to electricity. The continent produces only 6% of global fossil fuels from 4% of global reserves, but has access to 39% of global renewable energy potential, according to energy think-tank RMI. ft.com/content/8f00aa…
The capital intensity of chip industry is staggering. 5 big spenders, not including intel, are currently spending $35 bn (entire value of Chip Act credits) PER QUARTER! In 3 MONTHS! ft.com/content/779059… https://t.co/KgIitwSM80
Samsung Electronics’ operating profit slid nearly 70 per cent in the fourth quarter to an eight-year low because of plunging demand for chips. ft.com/content/779059… https://t.co/MKP0lzyDq6
One in eight women will get breast cancer in their lifetime ft.com/content/37edd1…
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