How convulsive structural change shapes subjectivities. A personal memoir of the automotive revolution in Europe in the 60s and 70s. Chartbook Newsletter #178. adamtooze.substack.com/p/chartbook-17… https://t.co/GtLin6IAHM
The spread of car culture around the world btw 1950s and 1970s was inspired by nothing short of a revolution: a fourfold increase in automobile production worldwide, outside theUS but within the US hegemonnic sphere. Chartbook Newsletter #178 adamtooze.substack.com/p/chartbook-17… https://t.co/2Fbj2fsCAR
RT @Roger__McCarthy: @adam_tooze Something I noticed reading WW2 period memoirs was just how many people mentioned in them survived the war…
@joesmith323 Then as now, understanding corporate strategies is crucial if you want to properly evaluate the effect of protectionist measures like Imperial preference or the present-day IRA.
In the 1970s/80s the crisis in the European and US auto industry around the problematique of "mass production" triggered the last big debate about industrial production prior to our current discussion about energy transition. Chartbook #178 circling back adamtooze.substack.com/p/chartbook-17… https://t.co/CaXR1McrLc
Looking back it seems to me that you were lucky in Eur by 1980s if you did not know someone who knew someone who was killed or maimed in a car crash. Peak deaths in UK=1966. Chartbook Newsletter #178 on the ambiguous impact of the automotive revolution. adamtooze.substack.com/p/chartbook-17… https://t.co/ydPyCCnPHl
Witnesses to the automobile revolution. How a bunch of data triggered a flood of personal memories. I literally went to sleep dreaming of car crashes. adamtooze.substack.com/p/chartbook-17… https://t.co/LxUzVoh4ks
RT @yarbatman: So @adam_tooze and cars is a great combo. But a tiny quibble with the claim that Soviet auto production was of a “smaller sc…
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@policytensor Depends on how quickly their hospital system is overwhelmed?
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RT @irl_neil: latest chartbook is nice. on the personal relationship to fordism as civilization. As the son of a former autoworker (my moth…
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Chartbook: Chartbook #178 Witnesses to the automobile revolution adamtooze.substack.com/p/chartbook-17…
@BobbyGulotty wow. thank you that is amazing … precisely this kind of stuffis what im looking for. was this discontinued?
@ctkalish @andresvernon thank you both. The OICA data are the ones that are nationally based. Nothing on manufacturers there. Will check out your other suggestions. thank you!
RT @khalafroula: So many great entries for the FT Business Book of the year 2022 and a fabulous shortlist. Finally we have the winner: C…
Im trying to map the global motor vehicle industry and find myself frustrated by how easy it is to get production figures by country and how hard it is to get a long run of data by car manufacturer. Does anyone have these easily to hand anywhere? Thanks in advance! https://t.co/g9yHLjbRPX
In a sign of slowing in US construction, billing by architects across the US is contracting. thedailyshot.com/2022/12/05/wag… https://t.co/Cv58CyHGTB
Inflation accounting. Interesting demonstration of the difference in the value of stocks held by US retail in nominal terms and adjusted for inflation. thedailyshot.com/2022/12/05/wag… https://t.co/PRqCroqxUX
Industries with higher wages and more operating leverage are shedding workers more quickly in the US. thedailyshot.com/2022/12/05/wag… https://t.co/L35BaIgBK8
@simonjkennedy @economics @IsabellaMWeber Great stuff. Fascinating. Why not stick a link to Chartbook in there, like to @IsabellaMWeber et al paper! Make my day 😉
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