ADAM TOOZE

Detail from Cannaregio Town Square, Venice, Italy…1978 Peter Eisenman… Photo by Dick Frank Studio…… https://t.co/Px3cxqnGWi

East Africa is experiencing the most serious outbreak of locusts in 25 years, posing an unprecedented threat to foo… https://t.co/oMw9E5Aqpd

@Alan_Allport @DuncanWeldon Cant we just recognize that the Napoleonic wars were indeed a pan-European struggle on… https://t.co/TCcrGEdKTc

Anti-development machine: @TheEconomist calculates that rate of housing construction in AE is 1/2 what it was in th… https://t.co/wt41BX4FQC

@sbschulz @HeilmannFelix @AlexReitzenst Bought it. Looks like a fascinating volume. Thanks for bringing it to twitter!

In The Code of Capital @KatharinaPistor makes the argument that a “feudal calculus” of property runs through modern… https://t.co/xDm9CWZKar

"The median American rent payment rose 61% in real terms between 1960 and 2016 while the median renter’s income gre… https://t.co/QA7Zduqe0J

How housing became world’s biggest asset class: Until mid-20th century house prices across the rich world were fair… https://t.co/0saZlWkCxP

"Housing is at the root of many of the rich world’s problems”. You dont have to agree with the policy prescriptions… https://t.co/PSobPxnkhQ

US population is currently growing more slowly even than during WWI/flu epidemic & WWII. @jeffsparshott… https://t.co/JUZs1YtZiO

@Smithee_directs Yup the close ups of the interplay are fantastic

Stranded assets: Redburn downgraded cement makers @the_hc_group & @LafargeHolcim arguing that they face huge costs… https://t.co/3YsDDUckvo

The new Miles Davis Quintet takes shape: Monterey Jazz Festival 1963 George Coleman (ts) Hancock (pf) Carter (b) W… https://t.co/7vQephb0hB

The Miami Showband Massacre on @netflix also in US is a truly remarkable investigation into one of the most notorio… https://t.co/NX3LZT3xjj

"It’s basically vegetable prices . . . it’s not persistent inflation. As of now, I wouldn’t start calling it stagfl… https://t.co/Zcrj0oLwIv

"Individual taxpayers are half as likely to get audited as they were in 2010, after tax enforcement by the IRS fell… https://t.co/490duw2g2T

A “beautiful business”: Deutsche Bank employees, eager to cultivate a Saudi royal who had moved up to €500m in asse… https://t.co/o5obi5aNvK

The 20th-century cancer crisis in the US was highly gendered. It was due to a surge in male mortality above all due… https://t.co/aTpcMBoaOZ

Well there is a good tag line … “imagine a future as frightening as our own." https://t.co/IEdiF0F3JL

If you are interested in the European humanities you should really follow @jraimo John does some of the best intel… https://t.co/CiuutdlKZ2

Explaining the sluggish growth in US wages: Annual change in the employee cost index and the yearly change of its c… https://t.co/lGoOK0UK5d

How many times can you to retweet something that promotes your own work? But Adam’s review is so good: He summarize… https://t.co/ucbsxjxEzt

“He asked me if I knew what I was doing and that I risked damaging Czech-China relations” – on the China-spy drama… https://t.co/1W6sUuTAlq

Greece 2015 – 5 years on. For the anniversary of the final stage of the Greek debt struggle Eric Toussaint of… https://t.co/VBfsQVIJ0O

"While about 50 per cent of disaster losses are covered by insurance in high-income countries, the corresponding pr… https://t.co/JtR5MMyXTy

Ich habe vor den Toren Petersburgs ein Jahr lang gearbeitet, direkt hinter dem Pawlowsker Palast und seinem herrlic… https://t.co/xstHdw4o3L

A priority "is to assess European banks’ future resilience and the sustainability of their business models. And we… https://t.co/6TUX6qN2TQ

A legal model of crisis – social, economic and political. I read @KatharinaPistor fascinating Code of Capital for… https://t.co/SyAI6QGJYn

@BibiRippon Thanks

'All the emotions and sensations attached to the bunks remind us that the agony of Auschwitz was unceasing, unendin… https://t.co/JN4UbaqEAD

Today in 1980, Prince made his TV debut on the US show American Bandstand. Dick Clark: How many instruments do yo… https://t.co/5O0kxLMuRD

“An assessment of business models showed that most significant institutions’ earnings are below their cost of capit… https://t.co/BCMgA5QEOD

Wonderful review of a more than timely book: @adam_tooze on @KatharinaPistor's "The Code of Capital: How the Law Cr… https://t.co/6Z3z5fcmgO