ADAM TOOZE

LOVE these paintings of pipework by @JodiGerbi jodigerbi.com/pipes/5m4zjowy… https://t.co/y7pPpB4cC6

RT @dannydorling: @adam_tooze And when that biologist said this, in the 1970s, possibly even in the very early 1970s, that is what the 'rec…

If we are what we eat, it follows that we are what we s*** -> "dump-heap model for agricultural origins.” Hunter-gatherers like certain plants. Defecation concentrates seeds of preferred plants around camp sites. Hey presto … coevolutionary emergence of agriculture. https://t.co/2AxiZu1uqW

RT @abenanav: @adam_tooze “Viewed in long-run perspective, the growth of the earth's population has been like a long, thin powder fuse that…

RT @Noahpinion: The Singularity: You're living in it twitter.com/adam_tooze/sta…

"A biologist, looking at the diagram showing recent growth of world population, said that he had the impression of being in presence of growth curve of a microbe population in a body struck by some infectious disease. The 'bacillus' man is taking over the world.” Carlo Cipolla https://t.co/HRvVU78hXn

"on a rather restricted definition of our species (allowing 250k years), population and economic growth has occupied a mere 4% of its history; the really spectacular growth has occurred in the last 0.2% of that history.” David Christian 1991. @OurWorldInData https://t.co/TooaMhwvyK

In the 1960s as chair of Chicago History Dept William McNeill helped to arrange for Henry Moore to cast a bronze statue commemorating the 1st self-sustaining nuclear reaction on the spot on campus where in 1942, the atomic age began. history.uchicago.edu/news/william-h… https://t.co/NOgMDhtYZh

"It is our professional duty to move toward ecumenicity, however real the risks may seem to timid and unenterprising minds.” William McNeil's 1985 presidential address to the @AHAhistorians is a trip! https://t.co/PXkmqMxXr1

"So far, central bankers have simply exhorted Congress to provide more Covid-19 aid. They could be much more forceful if they wanted.” @BChappatta on the barely veiled MMT options that may lie ahead. bloomberg.com/opinion/articl… https://t.co/f2fonetYQe

“It’s like the BOJ has created an intensive care unit and wheeled everybody inside. It’s so comfortable on the drip feed that no one wants to leave,” said Takahiro Sekido, chief Japan strategist at MUFG Bank Ltd. bloomberg.com/news/articles/… https://t.co/Bh8isL5Obi

BOJ is the “whale in the pond” of Japanese financial markets: Has over 70% of ETF market. Share of corporate debt and commercial paper quickly building -> it is beginning to affect markets well beyond government debt. bloomberg.com/news/articles/… https://t.co/86nuLNJZDU

RT @medialab_ScPo: L’anachronisme des séries longues et le reconstructionnisme des données : un débat rendu obsolète par les big data ? Ret…

Chinese power stations and steel mills have been verbally told to immediately stop using Australian coal. Ports have been ordered to halt unloading. Thermal is no big deal. Coking coal is. Even bigger would be steps taken against iron ore. In works? bloomberg.com/news/articles/… https://t.co/o2UCOk8lHC

Adding to mood in Eastern Med, Turkey is doing a test firing of missiles this week, including, perhaps, its shiny new S-400s from Russia. bloomberg.com/news/articles/… https://t.co/PQyPiai3i2

RT @Secteur_F1: Mick Schumacher remet un casque de son père à Lewis Hamilton ! #F1 #EifelGP 🇩🇪 https://t.co/1nuc4XDt8t

RT @vividcloudofwat: https://t.co/vOvUz2AGCI

Evergrande’s Top Creditors, led by China Minsheng Banking Corp., are Reducing Loan, Bond Exposure to giant, heavily-indebted developer. If Chinese authorities manage this consolidation without dropping any plates, it will be remarkable achievement! bloomberg.com/news/articles/… https://t.co/QawGDPq9u7

"The world economy pushes into the fourth quarter with hopes for a rapid recovery from the virus shock effectively gone, according to the latest Bloomberg Economics” bloomberg.com/news/articles/… https://t.co/tkumjt4hsI

In June the World Bank identified 30 emerging-market and developing economies it expects to grow this year. Some are recovering faster; others have idiosyncratic growth drivers or are less exposed to external shocks. bloomberg.com/news/articles/… https://t.co/4psu6NKyUu

In 2020 almost all economies on the planet will shrink, according to a World Bank forecast. By contrast, in 2019 almost 4 out of 5 grew. It’s not an exaggeration to say this year has surpassed every recession in modern history. bloomberg.com/news/articles/… https://t.co/UtQjSajsAq

"Rich Americans Are Protecting Their Fortunes From a Possible Biden Win Advisers are urging them to transfer wealth to the next generation to take advantage of the Trump administration’s generous estate tax rules.” @BSteverman bloomberg.com/news/articles/… https://t.co/l5Ny4peZHX

Winslow Homer Soldiers Leaving Alexandria For Fortress Monroe, April 1st, 1862 artsy.net/viewing-room/d… https://t.co/iwFsx9XYuh

Remember the debt clock? "In last few weeks, Republicans are rediscovering their love for fiscal rectitude. Republican fiscal conservatism is a curious type of passion, which blows hot or cold depending on which party controls purse strings.” @EdwardGLuce ft.com/content/1a284f… https://t.co/OFey8CC994

Ever since start of summer COVID-19 has been a killer above all in the Americas. Relentless. ft.com/content/a2901c… https://t.co/8axoQkSThL

Leopold Pilichowski Portrait of Theodore Herzl, artsy.net/artwork/leopol… https://t.co/Dn8TrX8GpB

“Ability of central banks in the west to respond [to the pandemic] to an unimaginable extent and the limits of our ability to respond are quite jarring,” said Ken Ofori-Atta, FinMin of Ghana as low-income countries plead for more substantial debt relief. ft.com/content/edb18d… https://t.co/q7bp8kE3vC

“We’re constantly on tenterhooks that we’re going to wake up to a tweet saying something like: ‘JPMorgan, Goldman Sachs: GET OUT OF CHINA!’” @patrickjenkins_ on Wall Street’s unseasonal new business in China. ft.com/content/476417… https://t.co/kYfL90jnMn

"OECD drafts principles for $100bn global corporate tax revolution Technical blueprint would raise 4% more tax but still needs political agreement” Such a telling headline, both about the scope for reform and its extreme limits. ft.com/content/c269d8… https://t.co/engRC0PjcJ

RT @Grand_Continent: — @stephenwertheim, Tomorrow, the World. The Birth of U.S. Global Supremacy, @Harvard_Press — Gérard Chaliand, Des g…

RT @70sBachchan: Xi's "Climate Neutrality by 2060" commitment at UN, with its implicit msg of marginalising the US, is now being challenged…

The generational shift to central bank independence between the 1970s and the 1990s as mapped by the @ecb ecb.europa.eu/pub/pdf/scpops… https://t.co/WTHMZ63x2D

In 1900 there were 18 central banks in the world. In 2010 there were 180. ecb.europa.eu/pub/pdf/scpops… https://t.co/iRHsWigLek

Whereas early on in the Covid crisis the US led the world in terms of fiscal stimulus, this is no longer the case. All the European countries have piled on new commitments over the summer which put them well ahead. @OECD oecd-ilibrary.org/economics/oecd… https://t.co/2YLEJbt5wi

Enjoyable to follow the progress of Stuart Elden’s study of the young Foucault in diary format. Out next year. I look forward to getting Aner Barzilay’s response. progressivegeographies.com/2020/10/02/the… https://t.co/0AAwotRiWW

The generational shift to central bank independence between the 1970s and the 1990s as mapped by the @ecb ecb.europa.eu/pub/pdf/scpops… https://t.co/1MaTb06Uq9