ADAM TOOZE

Are Ideas Getting Harder to Find? Data in Bloom et al 2020 suggest that innovation may be an increasingly uphill battle. @NiskanenCenter niskanencenter.org/faster_fairer/… https://t.co/ebZMjTsYxZ

RT @KetanJ0: Absolutely huge story from @climate – leaked documents from @exxonmobil show that they plan to massively increase their emissi…

@MsJulieZiegler @NiskanenCenter @TamBayoumi Thanks. Looks really interesting.

Healthiest half of US population account for only 3% of health spending. 5% of population account for half of spending. Top 1% account for 23%. @NiskanenCenter niskanencenter.org/faster_fairer/… https://t.co/FLeFfaNHN6

US need to increase cash transfers to families by approximately $200 bn pa simply to match the cash portion of the OECD average. Increasing cash transfers to households with children is far and away easiest way to reduce child poverty. @NiskanenCenter niskanencenter.org/faster_fairer/… https://t.co/LnKDGpHwhr

The United States would need to increase spending on Active Labor Market Policies by nearly $100 billion per year just to match the OECD average of 0.52% of GDP. @NiskanenCenter niskanencenter.org/faster_fairer/… https://t.co/JLwAAWfgVM

Apartment buildings are illegal to build in 76% of San Francisco. It is very expensive to live in SF. Hmmm ….. niskanencenter.org/faster_fairer/… https://t.co/96MFKnzYlG

In response to fear of a looming "physician surplus," the US imposed a moratorium on expanding the number of medical school slots from 1980 to 2005. Medical training fell behind population -> US has 2.6 doctors per 1000 v. 4.2 in Germany. @NiskanenCenter niskanencenter.org/faster_fairer/… https://t.co/l8wtQPNbZV

U.S. federal R&D spending on basic research has fallen nearly 35 percent over the last 40 years as a fraction of GDP. Low hanging fruit for a policy to promote productivity and well-being. @NiskanenCenter niskanencenter.org/faster_fairer/… https://t.co/oNaSDMT924

US interstate migration rate is today less than half what it was half a century ago in 1970. @NiskanenCenter niskanencenter.org/faster_fairer/… https://t.co/luZh4uFpwy

Central library of the University of the African Future Project of Abdoulaye Wade President of Senegal in early 2000s Valente-Quinn, Brian; de Jong, Ferdinand : Infrastructures of utopia: ruination and regeneration of the African future Africa, 88:2 (May 2018), p.332-351 https://t.co/eT2hGhNFL3

Central library of the University of the African Future Project of Abdoulaye Wade President of Senegal in early 2000s Valente-Quinn, Brian; de Jong, Ferdinand : Infrastructures of utopia: ruination and regeneration of the African futureGo to Journal 88:2 (May 2018), p.332-351 https://t.co/rdlkBnwksD

Map of most common second languages show the remarkable global diversity across London’s electoral wards. twitter.com/maxfras/status…

RT @Reuters: Just centimeters below the Earth’s surface is a ticking time bomb that could detonate as global temperatures rise. It's called…

More on the question of UK PhDs or lack of them … I seem to remember I was discussing this with @dbessner and other friends recently. Weird the way the same conversation springs up in different places. twitter.com/alisonroseNC/s…

Whereas the first wave of corona pandemic in the US was centered on big cities, since the summer the 2nd surge has been more pronounced in rural areas. @SoberLook https://t.co/DQneGyFgO9

The most meaningful measure of underemployment and labour market slack in the US right now is U6 and it is as 13 %. @SoberLook https://t.co/RQHxjK3LWm

Half of the jobs lost in the US at height of the corona shock have been recovered, but that leaves the economy 10 million down. @WSJecon via @SoberLook https://t.co/lTBNBOhUEa

RT @tveitdal: Scary! Amazon near tipping point of switching from rainforest to savannah theguardian.com/environment/20… As much as 40% of the exis…

More than thirty thousand private investigators now work in the United States, Maroney reports in his new book, “The Modern Detective: How Corporate Intelligence Is Reshaping the World” But whose side are they on? Asks @praddenkeefe newyorker.com/magazine/2020/… https://t.co/tEhlQa5DmE

Low wage employment in the US continues to bounce back. But it has a LONG way to go. @MorganStanley via @SoberLook https://t.co/QoSroe3UNO

Fabio Panetta: EA faces “a sizeable downward skew” Yves Mensch: "nothing is pointing to a further deterioration … Of course the markets like [it] if we buy up everything that they have.” How will Lagarde manage tensions on ECB council asks @MAmdorsky ft.com/content/787d1a… https://t.co/dmXDrtTue2

RT @FedeItaliano76: Marilyn Mugot is one of my favourite nocturnal explorers of urban space in contemporary photography—a few more here htt…

Arne Westad points out that, unlike Soviet people in 1946, the Chinese have enjoyed 40 years of peace & prosperity -> “in a crisis, Chinese are more likely to resemble the Germans in 1914 than Russians after WWII — excitable, rather than exhausted" ft.com/content/7b809c… https://t.co/pA5hNymXsT

“We're not sitting here waiting for a bunch of things to come back to normal and rebound. We're looking at a major pivot, a major change, based on the disruption that we've all been through.” COVID has delivered innovation shock to US oil &gas industry. ft.com/content/9cd25f… https://t.co/hGnDifVmJo

Just in case you were wondering … this is why the topography of Taiwan makes an amphibious landing difficult and where China might find possible “invasion beaches” … yup, I just typed “invasion beaches”. H/t @gideonrachman for adding to our nightmares! ft.com/content/7b809c… https://t.co/9zF19AAe4D

Uptick in “full recall” unemployment rate spells bad news for US labour market. @PIIE @jasonfurman piie.com/blogs/realtime… https://t.co/w0IYpffNQm

Interesting update on WHO reform proposals from EU and the US. @carmenpaun @Politico politico.com/news/2020/10/0… https://t.co/GKtN4TVYiQ

RT @olgatuleninova: George GROSZ Near Wellfleet, Cape Cod 1940 Addison Gallery of American Art, Andover (Massachusetts) https://t.co/uN9KTI…

COVID is crushing college hopes of lower income young people in the US. 100,000 fewer high school seniors completed financial aid applications to attend college this year. Black kids and rural white kids worst affected. @byHeatherLong washingtonpost.com/business/2020/… https://t.co/BDgAj4deok

Past, present and future ice loss for the Greenland ice sheet. Latest research in @nature By Briner et al, suggests were are about to go over a cliff. nature.com/articles/d4158… https://t.co/egmdrNn0PH

SMIC’s Hong Kong-traded shares fell more than 5 per cent on Monday after the group confirmed that the US Department of Commerce now requires American companies to apply for an export licence before selling it supplies. ft.com/content/da5fa0… https://t.co/pkMOC5WSHf

Flournoy, tipped as Def Sec for Biden, worries that “new uncertainty about US ability to check various Chinese moves could invite risk-taking by Chinese leaders”. Solution? Build military. Restore deterrence!? H/t @gideonrachman foreignaffairs.com/articles/unite… ft.com/content/7b809c… https://t.co/M5vXA0Qcmd

In most of Western Europe traveling by train is far quicker than traveling by car. europeandatajournalism.eu/eng/News/Data-… https://t.co/7TjPw3Ewls

More than 3,500 companies including Coca-Cola, Disney & Ford have filed lawsuits against the US government over its tariffs on China in recent weeks. So perhaps business opinion did not swing as far as we thought v. China? @bobdavis187 @Lingling_Wei ft.com/content/2b8512… https://t.co/PH4ABwF6bT

Ms Bingham said UK gov aims to vaccinate about 30m people out of UK pop of 67 m, if a successful vaccine against Covid-19 was found. No one under 18. It’s an adult-only vaccine, for people over 50, focusing on health workers care home workers & vulnerable. ft.com/content/d2e001… https://t.co/a0xk3zosBe