ADAM TOOZE

"Since the end of 2013, housing – and, particularly, rents and owners’ equivalent rents of primary residences – ha… https://t.co/hwBfClTt5X

The sudden oil price decline of > 50% 2014–15 was among the largest in the past century = transfer of nearly $6.5 t… https://t.co/f8PUMuZYFl

New Book on Putin’s Russia by @yaffaesque draws on Russian sociologist Levada’s concept of the “wily man” a persona… https://t.co/XYHwZjgTKe

Socially liberal autocrat: Mohammed bin Zayed the UAE’s de facto leader is rarely if ever interviewed.… https://t.co/4W0D25jdQ3

David Lipton is leaving his position as first deputy managing director of the IMF at the end of the month, paving t… https://t.co/vcdsUcTM7z

Why aren’t there investment products that to hedge against specific inflation risks like health-care or education c… https://t.co/JBBvhh0qoG

The temperature at Esperanza Base recently hit 18.3C, the highest ever recorded in Antarctica. Temperatures are hig… https://t.co/ZYxlNXJRbb

The “private investment party” is getting bigger & less exclusive. AUM of the 4 Wall Street firms that specialise i… https://t.co/cEkLcTvFbs

The US has the unemployment rate of Germany but the labour market participation rate amongst prime age men of Italy… https://t.co/iOwgN0enXp

Not only does David Lipton’s departure from the IMF remove a key voice of reason but it opens the door to the appoi… https://t.co/BjvpO4tkaE

MbZ: This long read on the formidable strongman of UAE, Mohammed bin Zayed, by @robertfworth is well worth your tim… https://t.co/ptDpXvR5vH

Global Avg Land Use to Produce One Kilogram of Different Foods, 2018 @JancisRobinson @felixsalmon @adam_tooze… https://t.co/3beqxdKnuw

If you love the sound of high-powered engines, is there anywhere like Dubai on a Friday night? Extraordinary concer… https://t.co/DOyZ5THY8J

The ECB’s chosen measure of inflation “captures only marginally the largest single lifetime expenditure of househol… https://t.co/Mw85wZCjEj

Btw 1950-65, Frenchmen were c. 70* more likely than British men to die of alcohol-related causes. But France then b… https://t.co/n57GuHgaYD

Until the 1930s dairy farming was the backbone of small farms in the US, 3.6m at their peak. Today there are 37,000… https://t.co/tZ223inJb7

“the fact France had a bar for every 80 persons, as compared to 270 in Germany, 430 in Britain, and 3,000 in Sweden… https://t.co/xRzldEGXWS

Build, build, build! The @wef ranks the Philippines 96th of 141 countries for the quality of its infrastructure. Si… https://t.co/aWFSMME2HS

The global trend is that as incomes rise (up to about $30,000 per capita), people spend some of their extra money o… https://t.co/EDT8jRWvS3

Nigerian central bank Governor Godwin Emefiele warned last month that rapidly rising debt and a lack of fiscal buff… https://t.co/yfHFxWydsp

In Britain, managerial workers are more likely to drink regularly but less likely to binge drink than routine worke… https://t.co/GHI5n8HjcS

Sociologist Georgi Derluguian of @NYUAbuDhabi is one of the world’s great intellectual raconteurs. This essay in… https://t.co/JoMzqaP4aU

It's Friday afternoon in UAE and the soundscape is an amazing cacophony as the mu’azzin compete with Muzak, the roa… https://t.co/1me7mAPbeL

Trump ‘apoplectic’ in call w Johnson over Huawei “the significance of the phone call is that it shows that Trump is… https://t.co/EXEFcuvVbH

Last week the White House suspended immigration to the US from Nigeria — the world’s 7th most-populous nation – and… https://t.co/Qp7211yClH

Das sollte hervorgehoben werden, weil 1)@adam_tooze ein Paradebeispiel für 🇬🇧-🇩🇪 #Freundship ist & 2) er jetzt scho… https://t.co/m4kZyyWp1O

Interesting thread on the reorganization within the Russian aerospace sector. https://t.co/wvKhQ7t1FO

Better late than never. Very impressive report by @TobiasBuckFT on what may be the last trial in Germany of a conce… https://t.co/TunQHjk3El

@EdRooksby Yes. And Weber actually misquotes Trotsky as @stefeich & I established. https://t.co/p9lr4SN6n8

“It is a new low point in Germany’s postwar history”, ousting @dieLinke from power in Thuringia, the CDU cooperate… https://t.co/UtLHMflvyM

“You can say that the United States is a democracy. You know it is not. When the United States makes a failure in d… https://t.co/kl9e4nJskM

Really enjoyed doing this podcast with @gideonrachman on the global politics of climate change.… https://t.co/eqA9dGIaGX

Field Marshal Bernard Law Montgomery, 1st Viscount Montgomery of Alamein, KG, GCB, DSO, PC, DL, nicknamed "Monty" a… https://t.co/0IFt8JCpLX

Economic History Newsflash: @NYUAbuDhabi has assembled one of the most outstanding groups of economic historians in… https://t.co/KvcEba9h8l