ADAM TOOZE

in light of the astonishing stagnation of real wages and productivity, evoking narratives of decline is contemporary Britain is an exercise in nostalgia. This is like nothing we have ever seen before. Check out Chartbook #184 and sign up (for free!) adamtooze.substack.com/p/chartbook-18… https://t.co/wiqgSbHUbg

RT @MichaelLangham4: It’s often difficult to explain the magnitude of Britain’s decline to people because other than poor public services,…

Spanish (headline) inflation slowed more than expected in December, raising expectations of an easing in price pressures across the eurozone. ft.com/content/15b5c8… https://t.co/pIQSwIeYd4

RT @CramerChristoph: @adam_tooze engaging with Perry Anderson's NLR essay and desperately depressing, important reading on the Undevelopin…

RT @yarbatman: The “make Italy great again” discourse has been around a while obviously, but the discussions around decline don’t seem as g…

RT @yarbatman: A brutal take on Britain’s decline by @adam_tooze, with the customary comparisons to Italy. Would be cool to read a compari…

RT @x_delcourt: "The shock of 2016 cannot by itself explain what really ought to alarm us, namely the astonishing stagnation in productivit…

RT @poltheoryother: "Throughout the period between World War II and 2007, for all the back and forth about decline, real household disposab…

RT @burridge_d: @adam_tooze A great chartbook. In the UK, similarly to failures to invest in health/education, the potential for mass low-p…

RT @poltheoryother: Excellent from @adam_tooze on how, for all the ubiquity of declinism talk since Suez, the UK is now in truly uncharted…

Nostalgia for Decline – Chartbook #184 takes on the confused debate in contemporary UK where the problem is not the familiar trope of decline and revivalism but deconvergence. adamtooze.substack.com/p/chartbook-18… https://t.co/MEWq5HWbiw

RT @acemaxx: “A #problem becomes a #crisis when it #challenges our ability to cope and thus threatens our identity. In the #polycrisis the…

RT @ConradkBarwa: @moonsez @adam_tooze According to Statista no other country has more than 10% of women pilots: statista.com/chart/27953/pe…

RT @HenryRothwell: Tonight's goodnight image is 'The Fried Fish Shop', Clifford Hooper Rowe, oil on panel, 1936. Sleep tight. https://t.co/…

Chartbook: Chartbook #184 – Nostalgia for decline in deconvergent Britain adamtooze.substack.com/p/chartbook-18…

Weird science has a pleasing way of turning up in real life. The lumpen car battery works thanks to the effects of relativity, which deliver 5/6 of charge. ft.com/content/157f45… The relativistic effect comes from fast-moving electrons in the lead atom. physics.aps.org/story/v27/st2 https://t.co/URy0GOzFTT

RT @TonyTassell: UK will have to rely more on the kindness of strangers – FT column from @DuncanWeldon. With the Bank of England unwinding…

When you talk industrial policy in chips remember this: the industry is a brutal, backstabbing oligopoly prone to overcapacity. And Samsung is most brutal competitor of all. Investing $37.5bn PER ANNUM. Matches the entire CHIPS act tax break! ft.com/content/fd9dd8…

RT @ahistoryinart: 'On the Roof.' (1928) Herbert Badham painted the daily life and times of Sydney in Australia. This picture is a celebrat…

S Korea’s chip production last month fell by most since global financial crisis, reflecting deepening industry downtown as chipmakers struggle to clear large inventories & inflation saps demand. Most producers slashing investment. Ind policy anyone? ft.com/content/fd9dd8…

Chartbook: Inflation in the Baltic, Cambodian highways & the allure of Malaparte adamtooze.substack.com/p/inflation-in…

Why have the Baltic states coped so well, so far, with inflation of 20% plus? ft.com/content/cf88d4… https://t.co/JSETZWPH64

Chartbook: Fusion start ups, German mercenaries, Nepalese Maoists & Himalayan hydro diplomacy adamtooze.substack.com/p/fusion-start…

@NadeenEbrahim9 You folks are too sweet. Happy new year! @NotNihal @AndrewKazuto @mwalimujulius77

BMW, Mercedes, BASF and VW by themselves account for 1/3 of all European FDI in China. ft.com/content/d88955…

"newspapers are now largely read by the over-fifties, while young people are far more likely to have gone to university." Will Davies on the state of British public sphere. lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v44/…

Chartbook: Big bank bond losses, Marshall Pilsudski's boyhood dream & Germany's vintage capitalism. adamtooze.substack.com/p/big-bank-bon…

A bountiful Mustard crop field in Sirajganj, Bangladesh climaterealityproject.org/blog/how-clima… https://t.co/0TcKfJ7Q8k

Some 15.3 million Syrians (over 69 percent of the country’s population) will require humanitarian assistance in 2023, according to the Secretary-General’s special report on humanitarian needs in Syria securitycouncilreport.org/whatsinblue/20…

American workers' lack of leave is a medical issue. The US surgeon general is now advising employers to “enable adequate rest” and “increase access to paid leave” to support the mental health of their workforce. bls.gov/ncs/ebs/factsh… https://t.co/dPzLYPptAu

How little paid leave American workers receive is remarkable by @OECD standards. bls.gov/ncs/ebs/factsh… https://t.co/op9dUZ6tUn

Chile, Peru and Mexico are members of CPTPP. Now Uruguay is breaking ranks with Mercosur to make independent application. Uruguay is also negotiating FTA with China. Fascinating this on LatAm trade politics. ft.com/content/1d8834… https://t.co/TWZGrcuFPk

The xmas tree may have deep roots in Eurasian history, but in its modern form in Europe and N America its unthinkable without planation forestry of the great acceleration since 1945. With all side-effects you would expect. Chartbook Newsletter #183 adamtooze.substack.com/p/chartbook-18… https://t.co/MruHMqBnhn

So Xmas trees are a German tradition. Specifically Alsatian/Strasbourg But Strasbourg was French until 1871 when it became German and a French cause celebre … so is the xmas tree French or German? Chartbook Newsletter #183 on xmas history. adamtooze.substack.com/p/chartbook-18… https://t.co/8FwChp6X63

Guess who is killing the xmas tree? No prizes for this one. YUP it is the boomers! Check out, Chartbook Newsletter #183 on the political economy of xmas from medieval Strasbourg to the great acceleration. adamtooze.substack.com/p/chartbook-18… https://t.co/USnw8RK7rf

Cobwebs aren't just for Halloween! Want to know why xmas trees are so damned expensive in the US right now? Chartbook Newsletter #183 on the boom-bust cycle in the xmas tree business. Hint: it takes 10 years to grow a tree! 10 years!!!!! Sign up free here: adamtooze.substack.com/p/chartbook-18… https://t.co/bl614FQB9G