October 30, 2022
RT @Hanissee: Chartbook #163: Warfare without the state – New Keynesian shock therapy for Ukraine's home front., by @adam_tooze https://t.c…
RT @Hanissee: Chartbook #163: Warfare without the state – New Keynesian shock therapy for Ukraine's home front., by @adam_tooze https://t.c…
“This is the most complex, disparate and cross-cutting set of challenges that I can remember in the 40 years that I have been paying attention to such things." Larry Summers Polycrisis for @FT ft.com/content/498398… And for Chartbook newsletter adamtooze.substack.com/p/chartbook-16… https://t.co/dWGTptS74I
“It was total chaos in the dormitories,” said a 22-year-old worker surnamed Xia. “We jumped a plastic fence and a metal fence to get out of the campus,” he said. Workers flee world's largest iphone factory operated by Foxconn in Zhengzhou ft.com/content/7df744…
@paulcurrion @FT Hi Paul really like your framing of polycrisis on your blog as amongst other things a problematic of governance. Also in that respect very 1970s. currion.net/2022/10/the-bl…
How the Russian occupation authorities appropriate and market rebadged Ukrainian grain @polinaivanovva @xtophercook @laurapitel ft.com/content/89b06f… https://t.co/IGj7IudP4S
@RajrishiSinghal @CameronAbadi My book? Statistics and the German State.
@paulcurrion @FT totally. implied by references to "1970s environmentalism"
@ShaharHameiri Isn't it a partially capitalist economy (rather than a cap state), with a very large and influential SOE sector, led by a hypernationalist party of communist lineage and organization, commanding a state apparatus that is FAR more under influence of party than business interests?
The current relatively low (ish) price for gas might be as good as it gets for a while. The futures market is already reflecting these concerns, with contracts trading above $200 a barrel oil equivalent even for the first quarter of 2024. @OilSheppard ft.com/content/ff5a48… https://t.co/u0A1yKY6wo
@ShaharHameiri Was also true in Stalinist Soviet Union … both pose a problem for Marxist theorizing in every sense.
German FinMin Lindner rejects push for fresh EU borrowing to battle energy crisis. Criticizes SGP reform proposals and reemphasizes German debt brake. Why? On account of regional election losses and need to show distinct FDP profile … hmmm …. ft.com/content/86b27d… https://t.co/MfLhjDlnSX
RT @postdiscipline: If I understand my colleague's point correctly, @adam_tooze's recent work shows that Lukács was wrong that only Marxism…
@DylanRileyNLR @FT Thanks Dylan but Im a bit horrified at the Weberian reading (you know me and Weber …) if, indeed, I understand you correctly. I think I'd prefer post-Marxist. Check out the framing sketched here: adamtooze.substack.com/p/chartbook-16…
RT @syllabus_tweets: The ongoing strike wave in Britain has come with a wave of media coverage that ranges from mediocre to downright embar…
RT @danrami2009: "have every reason to think that we are at a dramatic threshold point,but also that our need to reach for a term as unspec…
RT @LucieNoyer: For Halloween, I'm dressing up as #polycrisis, wby? https://t.co/pPu8hd1HP2
Expanding on the @FT piece on polycrisis. ft.com/content/498398… I did a newsletter laying out some of the stakes and responding to some reactions to the piece. adamtooze.substack.com/p/chartbook-16… https://t.co/ydOhkrUKHx
RT @jraimo: Une anthropologie de la nature : face à Gaïa. Avec Bruno Latour (@BrunoLatourAIME), Philippe Descola et Pierre-Yves Condé (Les…
Chartbook #165: Polycrisis – thinking on the tightrope. on Chartbook adamtooze.substack.com/p/chartbook-16…
RT @adam_tooze: ‘Craziest things happen in politics. Credits dried up. The Reich is verging on bankruptcy. Our hour approaches with eerie c…
RT @AntonJaegermm: I think @adam_tooze nailed this one: realism might give you the right sexual anatomy of international relations, a theor…
@policytensor The relevant distinctions presumably depend on the point you want to make. In this case Im just not barking up the same tree as you. I was focused on the poly in polycrisis and the novelty aspect. Much more to say of course and much we agree on.
RT @Adamc0leman: "To imagine that our future problems will be those of 50 years ago is to fail to grasp the speed and scale of historical t…
RT @picharbonnier: Dans le FT, c’est @adam_tooze qui fait le point sur la signification du terme : la polycrise, c’est quand la somme des m…
RT @70sBachchan: “If you have found the past few years stressful and disorientating, if your life has already been disrupted, it is time to…
RT @AliceFishburn: 🚨Exciting new columnist alert🚨 Welcome to @adam_tooze who will be writing for @ftopinion each month. And what better to…
@alex_callinicos In radically compression our differences, Alex, are bound to appear in heightened form.
@Jderbyshire @FinancialTimes Thank you @Jderbyshire and for the edits on the piece. Delighted to be joining the @FinancialTimes roster. "Bucket list?" you ask … Yup. Bucket list.
RT @Jderbyshire: Delighted to welcome @adam_tooze to the @FinancialTimes as a contributing editor. Here he is on the polycrisis https://t.c…
@Brad_Setser @FabioGrieco8 @TiltingatM3 THANK you to everyone who got in on this effort to map outstanding IMF loans. MUCH appreciated.
RT @martinhaegglund: Great Hegel news! Five new boxes of previously unknown transcriptions of Hegel lectures have been discovered. Link her…
@willsymes How do French lenders hedge the risks of making long-term fixed interest loans that can be refinanced at will? Only way to make that viable in USA is by way of giant subsidized backstop of GSEs.
@MeisterAnatol Thanks. You are welcome. GREAT image. What is the source?
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