ADAM TOOZE

A day to recall lasting impact of the Iran-Iraq war. It was that war that made a generation of Iranian leaders like… https://t.co/kCg1vdLL1o

Power and Time: Temporalities in Conflict and the Making of History (ed. @danedels, Stefanos Geroulanos, and… https://t.co/scn2oRBAgH

Ursula von der Leyen has proposed a guaranteed minimum wage for all EU workers. Should there be an EU minimum wage?

The collapse of British power in Asia in early 1942 that continued down through fall of Singapore in February is on… https://t.co/erbfT39dQI

US official at the Baghdad Embassy tells me “we are sitting on the fence of either fleeing or hunkering down and ri… https://t.co/VYT8keWMyz

Amongst conservative Americans gender makes a huge difference to attitudes on climate change and the economy. Women… https://t.co/8j8VDQXHCM

“glanc[ing] lightly from topic to topic, suggesting deep things in jest” Bagehot on the Edinburgh Review as the mod… https://t.co/lUK0DHIATm

Share of exports going to the US v. share going to China. Would be nice to see this GDP weighted. @BofAML via… https://t.co/cb0GchjU22

Until the 1980s US health care spending was high relative to peer economies but not truly anomalous. Since the 1990… https://t.co/ym6q6wEP9S

According to luxury food emporium Fortnum & Mason, the Scotch egg was invented at its Piccaddily headquarters in th… https://t.co/qbNNxWzrIc

A plot of the employment cost index (ECI) vs. the employment-to-population ratio in the US shows a pretty solid rel… https://t.co/j0NuQyCE7s

@ted_morris F&M invented the scotch egg.

Cant help thinking that the unusual distance of about a mile between the Royal Academy of Art & Greggs, Britain’s l… https://t.co/Ig0qGhmzin

On US & Iran – as with North Korea, China v HK, India v Pakistan, Russia etc – we focus too much on high-impact, mi… https://t.co/ueT0W4MFXV

"This doesn’t mean war, it will not lead to war, and it doesn’t risk war. None of that. It is war.” Rather a good l… https://t.co/GQh5YwwEPY

As real unit labour costs rise late in the US growth cycle (modest wage growth pressing up against stagnant product… https://t.co/l3HYFXLMBs

“Think of all the new books just coming out that are not being reviewed”. How the @LRB was born out of a late 1970s… https://t.co/HeUjK7TaHP

Scenario: US expelled from Iraq minus Kurdistan; ISIS reemerges; oil prices spike; missile attacks on Israel from N… https://t.co/RdC5EFmfMr

One of the key stylized facts about the global economy in 2019 that everyone should know is that China’s trade surp… https://t.co/nGHZUSRs1a

“Maybe the president should have started a trade war with Germany, the prospects would’ve been better,”… https://t.co/XTGZL0iQcA

And that firefront? Imagine an unbroken line of fire, stretching from New York to Los Angeles, then back to New Yor… https://t.co/uuhmbkrxR9

Many of the volunteer firefighters are unemployed; their benefits have been suspended because, while they’re saving… https://t.co/R3tMxpjWYC

The Australian government refuses to discuss the fact that the NSW fires have now been burning for three months, an… https://t.co/aoMfBx1jSH

I want to give some perspective for people not from Australia. More Aussie land is currently burning than exists in… https://t.co/dxrJzzrGuy

5 million hectares burned is hard to get your head around. But consider this, if the roads were open it would take… https://t.co/lWbXsmWfpU

Heartland America’s answer to OPEC II: threaten food sanctions – “Cheaper Crude or No More Food” Bobby “Sofine” But… https://t.co/F9Tk6ePKAo

The trade in charcoal earns millions and is one of the main drivers of ongoing deforestation in the Congo.… https://t.co/rR7TvxF4pa

"Freeze a Yankee” – A Texas Solution to the Energy Crisis. The Folkel Minority (1978) – musical commentary on the p… https://t.co/SlDSWSW8Cc

How the New York neighborhoods represented in the Whitney Biennial have shifted since the 1930s. Remarkable cultur… https://t.co/xYdPXcHU2L

A quirky collection of cat whiskers is diligently cataloged in a handbound book from the 1940s at the… https://t.co/wNSeyHxGZi