ADAM TOOZE

"What we seem to require is a view of civil politics as both representative & artificial, simultaneously natural &… https://t.co/FRVzkUAjYB

Ssustained fall in Italy’s household saving rate since 1980s is remarkable, especially because it goes hand in hand… https://t.co/WRezZNkDJc

In this remarkable Fed graph, the predominance of light green since 2009 shows the diffuse and slow nature of recov… https://t.co/7vFvXNjqNr

Imagine flying under fire in that machine! https://t.co/kEfxU1a248

Residential property prices are still well above their immediate post-crisis levels in both advanced and emerging m… https://t.co/WdMtfyQVoo

There was a bump in US capital goods orders in 2016-7, which has collapsed in 2018 and is showing little sign of an… https://t.co/2g8MntK7e2

Last year there were 390 m cases of infection with dengue fever. Global warming and unplanned urbanization create b… https://t.co/ZaAj8UagnL

Consumer spending makes up 68% of US GDP. It is generally therefore also the main driver of GDP growth though its s… https://t.co/TuMGxFSzj9

From 2011 US fiscal policy turned contractionary whilst unemp was still high. The driver was falling unemployment s… https://t.co/IFpOovh2RV

Planes made by Boeing and Airbus aren’t faster than they were in the 1970s, but they are 70% more efficient per pas… https://t.co/qLl5lrecaj

The beginning of the end of the GroKo era? Germany’s Social Democrats have voted in leftwingers Walter-Borjans and… https://t.co/hPezhq8bDa

November 27, 1959 Miles Davis and Tito Puente play a dance at St. Nicholas Arena, a boxing arena on the Upper West… https://t.co/qFggpbBPri

Archaeology on your street. Alternative maps of London. https://t.co/DcMW5lHAZA

"We all hate the bully but if we don’t kill him, we have to live with him.” @GerardAraud is a true exponent of the… https://t.co/4jpB9fLbyw

The tree is decorated, there is a fire in the fireplace, Christmas carols are playing, and it's dropped beneath 90… https://t.co/DOJT6onq7x

Planes made by Boeing and Airbus aren’t faster than they were in the 1970s, but they are 70% more efficient per pas… https://t.co/fH3M02YwkY

American inequality: From one end of Chicago’s Red Line to the other life expectancy varies by 30 years, from 60 to… https://t.co/3VHVtQjFLD

If the choice of locations is anything to go by, then the chief priority of China’s maritime BRI is protection of t… https://t.co/tOklpxsuUm

A show about showing — Art on Display at the Gulbenkian @edwinheathcote on what sounds like a fabulous and intrigui… https://t.co/r7iKZgX1h5

US exported 89,000 more barrels of crude oil and refined petroleum products a day than it imported in September = 1… https://t.co/q9LkhACbCn

If you measure macroeconomic stability in terms of standard deviation of GDP growth, then as global economic growth… https://t.co/g11MZYrG1t

Nigeria’s economy began to splutter in 2015 when price of oil fell = 9% of gdp and more than 90% of export earnings… https://t.co/m1INwgBHW5

By 2030 a quarter of all the very poor people in the world will be Nigerian, predicts the @worlddatalab Currently 9… https://t.co/rLAaT6zxKZ

“One part of the macro toolbox is missing — volatility.” In an age of macroeconomic stability, macro hedge funds st… https://t.co/qaaRnlezPA

Bolloré Group with sales of €23bn ($25.6bn) and 81,000 employees around the globe is an extraordinary example of Fr… https://t.co/feQc1Jhrdd

The Polish chef who took on the London bridge terrorist despite being stabbed is called Luckasz. And Luckasz deserved a George Cross.

On being a Nazi artist: Bernhard Fulda and Aya Soika have set a new standard for scholarship not only on Emile Nold… https://t.co/aIZIKy0FP0

On being a Nazi artist: Bernhard Fulda and Aya Soika have set a new standard for scholarship not only on Emile Nold… https://t.co/OFKJkdtgBo

Germany’s low wage sector accounts for 22% of all employees and is one of the largest in Europe. https://t.co/plmycOUCNW

Over 300 Western clothing brands, including international giants such as Disney, Nike and Walmart, boycott Uzbek co… https://t.co/vgzUJ5nPNz

Daimler said it would cut more than 10,000 jobs in the next two years, as the Mercedes-Benz owner added to a devast… https://t.co/7HstNStysr

All Sir Michael Howard's pieces for the LRB may be read here: https://t.co/TTAXwxaRvw https://t.co/Vt39zv6oqu