ADAM TOOZE

Cutting the Cold Chain (C3) DARPA proposal for young faculty awards. If cold chain is what I think it is, that is kinda malevolent.

"A Unified Theoretical and Computational Framework for Narratives in Information Operations" My favorite DARPA topic proposal for young faculty.

Email with the subject heading: 2021 DARPA Young Faculty Awards … I kinda blinked before I realized what this was. Yup. DARPA as in Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency. Money for junior faculty. The list of proposed projects is really quite interesting! https://t.co/51xIcPxvyY

The degree of globalization prior to 1914 as measured by trade was impressive but pace of growth was gradual by comparison with the extraordinary, prolonged surge from the trough of 1945 to the peak of 2008. Since then we are on a plateau but not, yet, a treat. Data @DeutscheBank https://t.co/zulMIgs9sU

RT @SmithHelmut: In the event that we in the US need to see how its done. October 9 in Leipzig was the breakthrough day, but throughout Ea…

RT @AP: BREAKING: WHO reports highest daily global total yet of new coronavirus infections: more than 350,000. apne.ws/eoCula7

RT @doberah: Germany's Bundestag approves plans for major new Nazi documentation center in Berlin focused on the suffering of people in the…

RT @EmilKalinowski: @adam_tooze @jeannasmialek @nytimes The best artist spinning colors about macroeconomics today is #DavidParkins illustr…

Since the financial crisis, business investment in the US has been falling further behind the long-term trend path capital accumulation had been on up to 2006 -> bad for long-run growth of US economy. Obs capital may be being redeployed globally. @PantheonMacro via @SoberLook https://t.co/vpKrDM1zWM

34% of small businesses in the US could not pay rent in October. 46% of beauty salons, 40% restaurants and gyms. This clearly isnt sustainable over many more months. @Alignable via @SoberLook https://t.co/r83Zt2GZ1p

The Ruhr (sic) "in search of narratives and images that no longer speak of the triumph over the world, but of a conscious interaction with the environment”. Quite a historic document! twitter.com/Rasmus_C_Beck/…

RT @PulpLibrarian: Do YOU have what it takes to be a pulp nurse? It's a demanding, exciting, glamorous and sometimes dangerous occupation y…

RT @NickWhithorn: Italian Life Senator Liliana Segre (90), survivor of Auschwitz and the death marches, today made her last ever public spe…

Faced with corona shock and unexpected surge in government support payments, US households have sensibly built up substantial financial reserves. @MorganStanley via @SoberLook https://t.co/4zQgnObLKw

Governing the climate? Very happy to have gotten my copy of this crucial book. And it will be good for my French. But why is there not an updated English translation of this fundamental work by ⁦@StefanAykut⁩ and Amy Dahan? https://t.co/jvaJkBeWsu

How the labour share of GDP shifted btw 1980 and 2020. Gotta say that I found these numbers surprising. Very small shifts in UK and US. Much bigger declines in Spain and Austria. An increase in North European success stories! Obs labour share =/= inequality. @DeutscheBank data. https://t.co/e8CsNwwQVz

"If you envision dialectics as thought in motion, a thought that constantly faces up to circumstances, to the relation of forces, with concrete goals in mind, then dialectics becomes, in effect, a strategic art.” Emmanuel Guy on Guy Debord’s Game of War. diacritik.com/2020/10/08/emm… https://t.co/KDOzTMa1bU

The rise of mobile internet worldwide is an astonishing trend. From 0 in 2007 to 5 bn plus people worldwide. economist.com/graphic-detail… https://t.co/Ya0us7bMEw

The City University of New York had 50,000 or more students who lost their jobs “overnight” following corona lockdown in the spring! And then the University itself started laying people off … economist.com/united-states/… https://t.co/S04FJcLSGt

72% of Latino and 60% of Black households in the US report facing serious financial problems during corona crisis so far! @RWJF @NPR rwjf.org/en/library/res… https://t.co/q1dTbEI5eF

RT @HKaaman: Thinking about the plumber who sold one of his trucks to a dealership in 2013. The truck later showed up with Jaish al-Muhajir…

In 2020 a remarkable thing happened in the midst of an epidemic and the lockdown-induced recession. Poverty declined in America! Poverty at US rates is a choice. Simple as that. economist.com/united-states/… Citing this @nberrel paper by Bruce Meyer et al nber.org/papers/w27729.… https://t.co/uqzziU6WLx

RT @DenisMacShane: IATA says of the 1.2 billion airline passengers since the beginning of 2020 just 44 have been confirmed as being infecte…

The changing geopolitics of energy. Excellent roundup by @TheEconomist of the competition btw fossil fuel US and the new Chinese (and European) ”electrostates". economist.com/briefing/2020/… https://t.co/ht5YkYsJit

@BristbyJohn @howmuch_net Wow! If true, obviously meaningless. You kinda gotta rely on your sources on something like that. How plead you @howmuch_net ???

Yet another week with a catastrophic number of more than a million folks signing on for unemployment benefits. Presumably, at this point, many people are going through this over and over again? @OxfordEconomics via @SoberLook https://t.co/GGz5Ni6CgB

The trading arms of state-owned oil giants sinopec and China National Petroleum Corporation are now two of the three largest traders of crude cargoes priced on the Platts Dubai futures contract, which means they influence the price of crude bound for Asia. economist.com/briefing/2020/… https://t.co/lRgSplxXIS

The Bay Area gets a huge amount of attention as a key hub of US economy. If you believe these numbers, its GDP is essentially the same as Washington-Arlington-Alexandria or Dallas-Forth-Worth metro areas. @howmuch_net thedailyshot.com/2020/10/08/stu… https://t.co/WJfmNZQRnh

Energy future: Its hard to construct a scenario in which a. Oil demand hasnt’t peaked & b. Electricity demand is not going to surge. Some oil companies, like BP, are charting a transition. Others, like Exxon are gambling on being the last one standing. economist.com/briefing/2020/… https://t.co/75tZ5qP6Xg

2019: for first time, women outnumbered men amongst US employees. 2020: for first time women’s unemployment surges above male. @livrockeman @readep @catarinasaraiva bloomberg.com/news/articles/… https://t.co/YhIZp9P97k

In Manhattan the return to work since March 2020 shutdown has been very limited. @WSJ via @SoberLook https://t.co/Ww92qEzk6P

Germany’s short-time working schemes have been extended. Given the numbers still enrolled in September you can see why (on premise of a rational policy process). @senoj_erialc citing IFO data in @FTAlphaville ftalphaville.ft.com/2020/10/07/160… https://t.co/EeVYxbhmBX

To combine the attractions of chess and poker. East and West. Guy Debord’s Game of War as a navigation the blocs in the Cold War. Marx and Coca-Cola. @BeineckeLibrary has an original prototype copy in their remarkable postwar collection! postwarcultureatbeinecke.org/guy-debord https://t.co/r7PY9GBpJf

If the ECB had hit its 2% inflation target since 2009 -> price level would have been 20 points higher. If you are a debtor, that hurts. @Danske_Research Via @SoberLook https://t.co/OFXTmxPlOS

Guy Debord à Champot 1983 with his “Jeu de la Guerre”. Interesting interview with Emmanuel Guy in @diacritik diacritik.com/2020/10/08/emm… https://t.co/ENpeSmhXks

9 October 1870 Léon Gambetta calls for a levée en masse to meet the German invasion and siege of Paris. twitter.com/Krieg7071/stat…