ADAM TOOZE

Raúl Prebisch delivers the opening statement of the UN Conference on Trade and Development, March 24, 1964. From th… https://t.co/wMo8nwfW5n

Surveillance tech: We see a lot of data on the patents race, but less on what patents are for. Surveillance and fac… https://t.co/5zE7JtIEwO

Iranian PM Mossadegh touches Liberty Bell in Philadelphia during visit to US to address UN during oil nationalizati… https://t.co/wwGblDkbtj

After the hectic activity of the space race, the 1980s were a quiet decade for the moon. Great graphics from… https://t.co/tsglB5Mqhz

How Gulf oil state revenue surged in the 1950s following the 50/50 deals of the postwar period. The plateau of the… https://t.co/Cb8lgEHSiE

English viticulture has seen huge growth since millennium, but yields remain low. There are 33k ha of prime viticul… https://t.co/UGbRjURNyl

To head off China’s Minsky moment, does Xi have what it takes to deliver a Volcker-style shock to the Chinese econo… https://t.co/LAhKbjVRQS

Low-skill and low-pay service sector workers in EU, as elsewhere, are intensely vulnerable to automation. Great gra… https://t.co/CfAGyVXwRr

In Aug-Sep 1942 in repressing Quit India campaign Brit Imperial troops imprisoned 66,000 & shot dead 2500 Indian ci… https://t.co/sJ4JjxYiL3

Hands up who wants a book on the architecture of the Japanese property bubble of the 1980s and early 1990s! After t… https://t.co/NSCB0HWoPa

95 % measles vaccination coverage is needed to prevent wider outbreaks. Globally we fall short as we do in several… https://t.co/285Gbs9rK7

This is a MAD and wonderful thread on Japanese architecture since the 1980s boom! Read & read & read …. https://t.co/dsZvrJMZn8

Even construction sites in Japan can be incredible objecrs of aesthetic delight… Mobile construction gantry for a… https://t.co/GxsS8K6l4b

"I have been detained by police for holding a poster of Gandhi and speaking about the constitution to the press,"… https://t.co/ZP1jvJETSw

What a beautiful cover to this interesting looking book! https://t.co/akVczV68h1

And, off to the left (as the original poster adds in a later tweet) you can see John Hope Franklin. https://t.co/hVdrODm1bC

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On Christmas Eve, unusually warm weather melted the most ice across the continent of Antarctica in a single day out… https://t.co/vCCCQRtsyP

NEW: inspired by @p_surridge & @olhe, I looked at how the class gradient in British politics has been weakening. L… https://t.co/kpyHrOw4fU

Allies answer to the Vierling Flak. https://t.co/3Bp3XNlYXw

My daughter left her toy rabbit on a train at Reading heading to Bristol Temple Meads. Left Reading station just be… https://t.co/CKMGDn1eQd

Model showing the Ministry of Development complex, Baghdad…1958 Gio Ponti… #architecture #arquitectura… https://t.co/x3h5ayeEzR

Expressed in constant prices for 2000, in Britain the price of electricity was 120 pence per kWh in 1900 and 6 penc… https://t.co/bw17SL0B6q

Mr Modi’s government has vowed to spend $1.4tn on infrastructure over the next five years, building world class tra… https://t.co/2I9zxwHFKi

India’s inability to get the $1bn Zojila tunnel, running along the volatile Kashmir boundary, built, despite high-l… https://t.co/7rAidKC14Q

Retratining is no panacea but it doesnt help that US has a mess of 46 separte retraining and reskilling programs, s… https://t.co/5fuJV5CS5J

The median annual income of a low-wage worker in America is just $17,953 = < 1/2 average cost of a degree from an i… https://t.co/bC5URaPeol

Mapping of median wages &. mobility reveal the dead-end low wage/low mobility occupations of the service sector eco… https://t.co/eJUbzhbBxT

Occupational transitions in the US 2003-2019: which jobs do various types of retail salesworkers move to and how do… https://t.co/VqPkLWQQPQ

c. 53 m Americans —44 % of all U.S. workers ages 18–64—are low-wage workers. Their median hourly wage is $10.22, an… https://t.co/6rT79gk7XV

Since 2016 there has been a surge in OTC interest rate derivative trading. Total turnover has more than doubled in… https://t.co/YTmgKRPd6j

As the global tourism industry booms and destinations diversify, Europe remains the most popular destination.… https://t.co/JhpulcjWrX

The FX market which once had a clear two-tier structure of client-dealer and inter-dealer relations has become a mu… https://t.co/wNmeGFINCZ

Since 2000 the global IP picture has radically changed -> despite Sino-American confrontation there may in fact be… https://t.co/xydNm5Nk5d

“Lenin’s lamp” – Lenin fused with the promise of electric light in We Build (1929) celebrating the first five year… https://t.co/nJ02eJlI3u