ADAM TOOZE

RT @SmithHelmut: The solution to our campus problems! Courtesy of Oxford University: The plague house! chch.ox.ac.uk/blog/wallingfo… via @ChCh_Ox…

Excited to be launching a redesign of the personal website adamtooze.com aggregating journalism, podcasts, talks, interviews, talks, reviews etc. Masses of materials back to 2015. All beautifully presented thanks to katemarsh.com artbykatemarsh.com https://t.co/CHeDelerTM

What to make of this? invaluable.com/auction-lot/gr… https://t.co/XmjuOglA8m

Changing attitudes towards authoritarianism/democracy from the World Value Survey are striking. No general decline in strong democracies. But VERY large shifts in Mexico, Bangladesh and Russia. economist.com/graphic-detail… https://t.co/TyMC07AFSX

2020: Canada’s last intact ice shelf breaks up. A century ago Ellesmere’s northern coast had a 8,600 square km shelf, a floating island of ice driven onto shore 4,000 years ago. During the 20th century it broke apart this summer it finally disintegrated. economist.com/the-americas/2… https://t.co/be6rz7vevd

Bill Phillips analogue macroeconomic model captured in this striking photo by Graham Turner, evokes Joseph Wright’s famous air pump painting of 1768. theguardian.com/business/2008/… en.wikipedia.org/wiki/An_Experi… https://t.co/003qGNrfli

After the kingpin strategy: CJNG – new gang in town. This is a useful @TheEconomist Explainer on the formidable new challenge to the Mexican state. economist.com/the-americas/2… https://t.co/xmcfrwwJoG

Ant egg soup is a traditional delicacy of the Laotian countryside. Eggs have 8%+ protein content. Harvested from angry weaver ant nests by skilled and brave villagers. Fetch $16/kg in Vientiane. Scorned by younger generation who prefer wonton and pizza. economist.com/asia/2020/08/1… https://t.co/2iZvbXKEaR

Best ever stagflation cartoon? Amazing @OpenUniversity tutorial on the Phillips curve that involves a bell-bottomed technocrat, Punk, Elvis and a crocodile. youtube.com/watch?v=H_LHFs… https://t.co/NQljNBiYEc

Hairballs: on the global trade in human hair, this by Emma Tarlo of @GoldAnth looks fascinating. And yes, some of it is salvaged from sinks! amazon.com/dp/B07ZWHP6V8/… https://t.co/kAVj4S5rN9

Dubai’s growth has been spectacular. In 1950s, as the City of London was about to ride the Eurodollar boom, Dubai was little more than a fishing village, with 20,000 souls and no airport. Today it is the closest thing that MENA has to Singapore. economist.com/finance-and-ec… https://t.co/e5GfzlX0CR

RT @rajbhagatt: #Map shows #Delhi's massive growth since independence! Delhi could become the largest urban area in the world, if it grow…

"economic outcomes; depend on expectations” & “system stability is a factor of different expectations concerning future price changes” Original formulation of adaptive expectations spelled out by Bill Phillips for Milton Friedman. nzedge.com/legends/bill-p… nzedge.com/legends/bill-p… https://t.co/Xuvpsr660D

“Standard hair” processed in Myanmar is most basic input to global human hair trade. Sourced locally and from India & Bangladesh. Used in whig manufacturing in China. Scorned by discerning customers in premium markets in West Africa who prefer Peruvian. myanmar-now.org/en/news/black-… https://t.co/PQyGW5yTMD

As POW in Japanese camp in Indonesia in WWII, William Phillips of the “Phillips curve” improvised clandestine immersion heaters to brew cups of tea causing power consumption surges that puzzled the guards! economist.com/schools-brief/… https://t.co/3ABe5xy5c5

"Peat monitoring” is not to be confused with watching paint dry! Though drying is, indeed, the issue. Peat, especially in Indonesia and Siberia, is a surprisingly fascinating and fundamentally important business. @FAO fao.org/3/CA8200EN/CA8… https://t.co/PvBvR9Zl8R

Average older Brit … nuff said. economist.com/britain/2020/0… https://t.co/kovJAdL4mV

Mega Rice Project launched by Indonesian President Suharto in 1997 unleashed an epic environmental disaster. Giant fires of dried peat across country released 0.81 and 2.57 Gt of carbon = 13–40% of the mean annual GLOBAL carbon emissions from fossil fuels nature.com/articles/natur…. https://t.co/KK7sN7VX5C

In Lagos, Nigeria’s commercial capital, wigs sell for $60-$800. Top end are human hair of which Nigeria imports 3.6k tonnes pa. Brazilian is praised for sheen & durabillityy; Vietnamese for bounce; Mongolian, because it is easy to curl. Cambodian is top. economist.com/middle-east-an… https://t.co/8rCzuPxQgz

High Cost of Living became a driving preoccupation in final dismal months of Woodrow Wilson presidency in post WWI USA. We need a richer history of the first 20th-c inflation-deflation in the USA! twitter.com/prchovanec/sta…

US diplomatic service is in state of collapse: Trumpist scorn & neglect; bypassed by other modes of IR; inflexible and unattractive career path -> halving of numbers taking foreign service exam since 2010. economist.com/international/… https://t.co/SSHVB5uAer

The polarization of British politics by age over last 10 years, has been remarkable. @TheEconomist economist.com/britain/2020/0… https://t.co/mTMcm8Ex5j

Stakeholder laws: Of America’s 50 states, 32 have at least one law that lets a firm’s fiduciaries take some non-shareholder interests into account. economist.com/business/2020/… https://t.co/T805Zo8UT8

“Going out”: In 2019 China overtook America as the country with the most embassies and consulates around the world, says a Global Diplomacy Index compiled by the @LowyInstitute an Australian think-tank economist.com/international/… https://t.co/Ixv7tviYlV

The share prices of listed Airbus A380-owning funds suggests residual values of these magnificent plans once leases expire are $10-15m. Regular maintenance overhauls of each of its four engines can cost $6m -> airframe itself worthless. economist.com/business/2020/… https://t.co/OcO5W4cdRZ

Unlike its competitors Saudi Aramco still makes money & is paying out giant $75bn dividend. To lure investors it promised it would give priority to non-state shareholders’ dividends for five years, come hell, high water. That will now be put to test. economist.com/business/2020/… https://t.co/AG1Jnj51VW

RT @hshierholz: One very 2020 aspect of this: people who couldn't get their horses/cattle out in time are now just painting their phone num…

RT @BHershbein: Of Michigan's 4.95 million labor force participants (pre-COVID), more than 1.5 million were receiving some form of unemploy…

One thing a just transition has to prioritize is offering equivalent employment for the 400k men and women who currently earn a good living in the oil and gas extraction business in the US. @rfelliott wsj.com/articles/oil-i… https://t.co/Xlh7bVmEfd

RT @isskein: Michel Foucault's copy of Anti-Oedipus, illustrated by Deleuze’s children, Émilie and Julien. (Inscribed: “For Michel, admirat…

RT @BCAppelbaum: Great job alert: @nytopinion is looking for an editor to oversee Opinion's coverage of business, economics and technology:…

RT @DuncanWeldon: Just realised that Joe Biden is basically the same age as Neil Kinnock. My brain can’t process this.

Peru has had one of the worst COVID crises and has suffered an actual 30% yoy drop in GDP. Worst of any major economy. Hospitality 90%, construction – 67%, retail -45%. Devastating. bloomberg.com/news/articles/… https://t.co/pP6NcctNXo

Given the success of Eurozone short-time working measures unemployment statistics can be quite deceptive e.g. Spanish unemployment is out of synch with hours worked. @IIF via @SoberLook https://t.co/fqZGoLOnFI

A delighted, as always, to talk to @poltheoryother about China, the US and the return of austerity politics. As ever, Alex Doherty, asks great questions! soundcloud.com/poltheoryother… https://t.co/904Nni11cl

Deutsche Bank reckons that lost revenues in China, expense of moving factories out of country and compliance with the Chinese and American technospheres’ diverging standards could cost global tech firms $3.5trn over next 5 years with US firms hit hardest. economist.com/business/2020/… https://t.co/RvwHfo6ytE