ADAM TOOZE

In the US, annual government defence-related research and development (R&D) expenditures were $78 billion in 2016,… https://t.co/svhGor6nMt

@adam_tooze @MuseumModernArt Phillips Collection in DC has some wonderful engravings on exhibition including La Manifestation

The rise and fall of China’s savings glut: in early 2000s savings in China surged ahead of investment, then investm… https://t.co/kvjrOKgfz3

Are you sitting uncomfortably? Nice blog on the Félix Vallotton show that is up @metmuseum for the rest of January.… https://t.co/vmCwftIrvA

Collateral effects trump wealth effects amongst Danish homeowners post crisis: unanticipated increases in housing w… https://t.co/TNNTX4YFvz

Félix Vallotton The Lookout (La Guetteur) from This Is War (C'est la Guerre) 1916 To see the “lookout", blow up the… https://t.co/9jIq9LTyAi

Before 2008 China was sometimes characterized as a workshop churning imported raw materials & components through f… https://t.co/7MTb4LZ0Ge

Shame none of Félix Vallotton’s war art is even hinted at the show currently on @metmuseum: Contrast Vallotton as a… https://t.co/6APqO8oaip

Has Trump unleashed a general slide into protectionism? No. There have been more anti-trade measures, but most are… https://t.co/51JWYx19vi

Adjusting the Sino-US trade balance for value added makes a difference, but does not fundamentally change the pictu… https://t.co/4hfIZpSUOn

La Blance e La Noire (1913) Second time around Félix Vallotton’s subversive answer to Manet and Ingres at… https://t.co/FFoOLZdg0L

In European society what is “eroding” in Europe is not "middle class" but working class. Conflation of the two is a… https://t.co/7tDZxMsiRY

Ahead of the crisis 60% of china’s exports were generated by foreign-funded enterprises. Today the share is closer… https://t.co/w12zCVUvzB

Upward shift rather than polarization characterizes EU labour markets since 1990. Exception is UK where there is so… https://t.co/B8rRBSUv6m

In the US 20 % of imports are for household end-use (a smaller share than I would have imagined). In China only 5 %… https://t.co/gyvcIgKUlw

Polarization of the labour market (growth at bottom & top, hollowing of middle) may not be a general phenomenon. It… https://t.co/q0hX3NovWP

In 2007 43.9% of intermediate goods imported to China were re-exported. Today China is less of a workshop economy a… https://t.co/olkRJBJuk4

The Mekong delta, Vietnam’s rice bowl, one of most "engineered places" on earth is reaching a tipping point. A 6000… https://t.co/4kxKQxu2lO

How you interpret the shift in China’s current account depends on how you balance the continuing strength of manu s… https://t.co/FOnNqAaWG4

In fact no one’s behaviour in 1939 is intelligible unless you assume this. Why would HItler have signed a deal with… https://t.co/fSCh6Qnxui

"List of public vulnerabilities” – the number of weeks that Britain could survive a strike in various sectors. From… https://t.co/KGyt2Q7GNZ

If in New York, sa at the AHA, and can spare a moment, today is the last day of the @metmuseum fabulous show "The L…

In the past decade, China’s current account balance has undergone one of largest shifts amongst G20 countries & shi… https://t.co/pTseEH0hmm

"Despite sizeable net foreign assets, China’s income on current account remains in deficit. This is because less th… https://t.co/2ZmvtaJbyR

Ave Imperio: fascinating piece on the connection between Brazilian monarchist, Bolsonaro’s conservatism & anti-envi… https://t.co/40eCqMjQff

@HEWeiiiiii @Brad_Setser @M_C_Klein @michaelxpettis great. look forward to reading. very best A

Defense bubble? Over last 10 years defense stocks have outperformed big tech. -> debate going on, as to whether th… https://t.co/VFvHYNfwC7

The old military-industrial complex may be a shadow of its former self, but a new synthesis is emerging as disrupti… https://t.co/CcEsTr3Vcf

The National Gallery of Australia is closed today due to Anthropogenic climate change. This is not “normal” or “nat… https://t.co/HJO8qXlrgI

@adam_tooze Two points about Detroit. The MSA used in this instance includes Washtenaw County (where Ann Arbor is l… https://t.co/XqFbirYB9z

@adam_tooze @HEWeiiiiii @M_C_Klein @michaelxpettis a couple of thoughts — a) think proceeds from government land… https://t.co/iEaaKFvna5

Scrapping 737 Max could be worst-case scenario for both Boeing & Airbus. Would unleash bn$ R&D race to develop new… https://t.co/rngMzLNByE

Driven by global boom in air traffic, Airbus & Boeing have delivered record of more than 13,000 aircraft between th… https://t.co/g86kJ5d4QV

The Space Foundation (2019), a nonprofit advocacy organization, reported global space activity to be $414.8 billion… https://t.co/xuSZ37brOD