September 20, 2020
RT @sebastianveghk: Very thought-provoking discussion, predictably enjoyed the part on C Schmitt and China; the limits of Schmitt's usefuln…
RT @sebastianveghk: Very thought-provoking discussion, predictably enjoyed the part on C Schmitt and China; the limits of Schmitt's usefuln…
I didn’t know that noted Swiss author of the postwar period Friedrich Dürrenmatt also painted throughout his life! worldradio.ch/article/art-se… https://t.co/eCM8W0CSke
RT @AlexValchyshen: @adam_tooze: “progressive voices all over the world are arguing” = @FadhelKaboub @nssylla #MMT twitter.com/gustavahorn/st…
RT @SchwabeHenning: @adam_tooze rephrased @dhofstetter_x‘s #transition_capital as #anthropocenic_utilities to regenerate public goods v…
RT @i_aldasoro: Immunization to COVID-19 is supposed to solve our problems—but it's starting to trigger even bigger ones. https://t.co/s2GS…
RT @RPJSmith: @SDinPraxis @adam_tooze What an excellent and thought provoking article. As an accompanying piece (and VPN permitting) listen…
RT @soxgnasher: A view across the Thames of the City waterfront taken from a multi-storey stable building close to Southwark Bridge, c. 193…
@gitagovinda @jwassers @dbessner @ASPertierra Its kinda anachronistic to characterize any of the folks in these UK cohorts in terms of their “lack” of a PhD. It just wasn’t an issue. Specifically in Oxbridge circuit the key thing was a JRF/fellowship.
RT @clemente3000: The TDN-1 was a remote-controlled assault drone developed by the U.S. Navy in 1942 designed to operate from carriers and…
RT @SDinPraxis: Long read👇 "Each crisis will demand a combination of far-reaching responses-political, economic, social, cultural, & techni…
RT @rgpoulussen: One of the most moving pictures of Market Garden for me. Men signaling to transport planes. In vain, most of the supplies…
@count3rmeasure @dbessner @ASPertierra Oh dont misunderstand me, the problem was NOT Skinner!
@count3rmeasure @dbessner @ASPertierra In my time it was still a matter for discussion within the Cambridge Faculty: whether senior folks without PhDs were really best placed to supervise folks who were going through the UK’s increasingly bureaucratic system.
@guess_got @yeselson @dbessner @ASPertierra Jack Plumb, a key figure in postwar Cambridge, got one in 1936. But it was apparently the only time his supervisor, Trevelyan, ever served in that role!
RT @bucephalus424: @ASPertierra @adam_tooze @dbessner Timothy Garton Ash doesn't have one either, though he did earn his bones through his…
RT @sk8asd123: @adam_tooze @ForeignPolicy I came to this tweet expecting a lot of comments. This article is spectacular and I don't even ag…
@dbessner @ASPertierra PhD became essential stepping stone in UK academic careers only in 1970s. Neither Schama nor Quentin Skinner did one. Check out "100 Years of the PhD in the UK” David Bogle
RT @olgatuleninova: Carl Vilhelm Holsøe (1863-1935) https://t.co/KfzzqXsZbF
RT @LaetitiaLenel: Aby Warburgs Bilderatlas Mnemosyne im @HKW_Berlin zu sehen, ist bewegend und anregend. Seine Suche nach nicht-linearen D…
RT @MarcDavenant: Senior citizen in condemned slum housing, Birmingham in 1971 by Nick Hedges. One of his five themes for this series was ‘…
RT @MarcDavenant: Glasgow in 1970 by Nick Hedges. “Mr and Mrs G lived with their 4 children in a ground floor tenement flat. Their bedroom…
Paranoia around Bill Gates is grotesque and defamatory. But his foundation does have outsized influence on global public health agenda. Challenge is to transform QAnon-style conspiracies into a serious conversation about politics of life and death. foreignpolicy.com/2020/09/19/the… https://t.co/1ECTsVXzGa
RT @rupert_russell: "We imagined that an effective inoculation would be a cause of celebration. It may turn out to be a symbol of global in…
@IPE_thoughts @SDullien @GustavAHorn @socialeurope @AchimTruger @mischrodi @CanselK @NowaboFM @MartinGreive Well, in the piece, I am actually talking about Southern Europe!
The stakes are now clear: to create a political economy fit for the demands of the anthropocenic era to come. An effort to make sense of the Vaccine Race in @ForeignPolicy foreignpolicy.com/2020/09/19/the… https://t.co/HcJM5zUiEk
RT @dpnolan: @adam_tooze @ForeignPolicy @EdwardGLuce @tedfertik That’s a really great article. The analysis of the role played by the Gates…
Afrobeat: Immigrants from sub-Saharan Africa in USA shot from 265,000 in 1990 to 2m in 2018 (375,000 Nigerians). 2001-2011 African-born population of England/Wales: 800,000 to 1.3m-> “Once you blow in Nigeria you almost automatically blow in London,” economist.com/books-and-arts… https://t.co/BQ6Rm6clzV
A while back I did an essay about U. Beck’s concept of “risk society”. In this new piece for @ForeignPolicy I analyze the vaccine race as a 1st taste of political economy of the future. We may want a black box, but in risk society politics is everywhere. foreignpolicy.com/2020/09/19/the… https://t.co/WiaPhJQeZv
Striking and pleasing parallels btw these reviews of Yergin’s The New Map One in @nytimes other (anonymous) in @TheEconomist Delighted that references to “The Climate of History: Four Theses”, by Chakrabarty now fly in @TheEconomist nytimes.com/2020/09/15/boo… economist.com/books-and-arts… https://t.co/YclUldao9J
The World Is Winning—and Losing—the Vaccine Race Immunization to COVID-19 is supposed to solve our problems—but may trigger even bigger ones. A NEW piece for @ForeignPolicy on the political economy of the Vaccine Race. One for @EdwardGLuce @tedfertik foreignpolicy.com/2020/09/19/the… https://t.co/SzNhs0l9D0
Propagandizing for phosphate fertilizers in 1940s Tennessee: Global Fertiliser use has more than quadrupled since the 1970s and will continue rising as the population expands. theconversation.com/how-the-great-… https://t.co/9KlcMjItSH
The pandemic has shone a harsh light on China’s threadbare social safety-net. During the depths of China’s lockdown, just 3% of the roughly 80m people without jobs collected unemployment insurance. economist.com/finance-and-ec… Lardy & Huang data: piie.com/blogs/china-ec… https://t.co/JFiBV6LuHG
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