ADAM TOOZE

The decline in Franco-German support for NATO that seems to have happened around 2013 really stands out in this… https://t.co/imEcvrd2uO

Why are the Dutch the most pro-NATO W Europeans and the most consistent advocates of collective action?… https://t.co/8wtY6H73Ej

If a neighbors gets in a conflict with Russia, should US use military forct? Should our country? Most W Europeans f… https://t.co/DZAhN86CqX

Barely more than half of Americans have a favorable view of NATO and only 21% of Turks! Striking results from lates… https://t.co/2e7cJqzLqg

A Genealogy of Climate Change: Deterritorializing Space, Respatializing International Community By Nayef H. Samhat… https://t.co/KHDNIqbzQv

Once you standardize for global population, peak famine mortality globally in the last 160 years was in the 1870s.… https://t.co/SpYT1akjgT

We should talk more about the spectacular decline in famine mortality globally since the 1970s. This does not end… https://t.co/g58DxZJpxF

Compared to 1973 oil crisis, the 1972 food price shock, which ravaged Sahel & tipped Soviet Union into foreign debt… https://t.co/43gH8Qj83n

If you are into climate politics and haven’t read Paul N. Edwards, A Vast Machine. Computer Models, Climate Data an… https://t.co/qOULvS0i2k

“EM central banks have much greater traditional policy ammunition, and they have used it.” @Callum_Thomas Expects E… https://t.co/GxvQgutNxy

Tax Gap: in 2020 the IRS will fail to collect more than $630 billion, or nearly 15 percent of total tax liabilities… https://t.co/TYBaQ4fAPo

“Globally monetary policy settings have gone from headwind to tailwind. That’s a good thing for the growth outlook.… https://t.co/RIE3IS0mCL

Nature pleads not guilty. In 1980s "Drought & Man studies", a lot of intellectual effort was invested in demonstrat… https://t.co/nChfkVXSKX

East African Locust mega-swarm: Thanks to cyclones in Indian Ocean and we winter Kenya is facing worst swarm in 70… https://t.co/x6WlQH4KV6

Where people starved: global famines since the 1860s. @OurWorldInData is an extraordinary resource. Thank you to… https://t.co/ZJjdRcQZx2

Locusts consume at least half their body mass every 24h -> 200bn-strong E African mega swarms needs > 250k tonnes o… https://t.co/tjATgZnxlc

Compared to 1973 oil crisis, the 1972 food price shock, which ravaged Sahel & tipped Soviet Union into foreign debt… https://t.co/EHTvrIpnan

The dialectic of asset management: the passive boom has spawned its antithesis = niche, human-run, secretive, thinl… https://t.co/uBAgc0Cw45

"Vampire squib" … sorry, you just have to love that headline about Goldman’s current identity crisis! H/t… https://t.co/Jj5PMWvsjO

Since 1999 US rents have been consistently rising faster than overall prices -> crisis of affordable housing that m… https://t.co/iMddNvCp5X

In 1985 this was the US Department of Energy’s map of CO2 & climate research focused on prediction of 1.5-4.5oC deg… https://t.co/1gKKx5gy55

"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