ADAM TOOZE

In response to swine fever crisis in pig farming, Chinese farmers are raising giant pigs with extraordinary weights… https://t.co/2hXi4vMy8E

There are years in which growth in trade slows and in which it grows less fast than global GDP. 2019 was a year in… https://t.co/cA4MWa6quQ

Capital expenditure isbiggest component of average cost of producing renewable electricity. Renewables’ costs tend… https://t.co/ZVEH5lqj5e

Is it really possible that no one has ever done a quantitative local study of rural consumption in colonial India?… https://t.co/e5raqgqDlw

The dispersion of price developments in the US is such that it poses the question of what we mean by inflation. https://t.co/174Xtfh06M

One of the best gifts I got this Christmas was someone telling me about this letter from 8 January 1864, where Enge… https://t.co/HpA9IGGunq

For Christmas lunch, eating a cheese and mustard sandwich beneath a one-third scale model of the Cassini-Huygens sp… https://t.co/Y1pHbRSiAd

Wolfgang Abendroth rules. A communist during the Weimar era, sent to prison by the Nazis, then when drafted into th… https://t.co/7fIj0X5FuN

Steam driven treshing machine operating in German countryside: 1880s. https://t.co/HMnM97Pie6

According to the IMF the shadow economy in Germany runs to 15% of GDP. In Italy it is 25-30 % Data IMF via… https://t.co/EYJ0eSg6nc

The profit margin of the largest 100 firms in the S&P index is ten times larger than that of the small caps in the… https://t.co/ofxs3d1E85

Horgos pass in northwest China's Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region had 3,044 China-Europe freight trains passing thr… https://t.co/4lhKgSTjme

Happy Christmas to all those serving overseas not able to be with their loved ones today. Original Caption: “S/Sgt.… https://t.co/fdIYkvMC6K

My apologies to @TankMuseum for not crediting them for the christmas card photo. https://t.co/Al282gn5YH

Emile Levassor’s engine of only 4 hp weighed an enormous 1,000 kg in 1890, thus requiring 250 kg per hp. Within ten… https://t.co/NGgbD3N5hQ

Mark 2019 as the year in which the @BIS_org mourned the retreat of trade union bargaining power and the contributio… https://t.co/6VIPA6KwJh

Since 2009 Puerto Rico and Greece have both suffered a more serious economic contraction than the Central African R… https://t.co/Sp7Ui9IcAj

Since 2009, Ethiopia’s GDP has jumped 146.7% & in PPP terms its 112 m people have seen a 149% per capita increase.… https://t.co/ZTminxB7Ck

13.4 % of Americans claim to have known a friend/family member who died due to inability to afford medical treatmen… https://t.co/eNTEyS258q

Between 2013 and 2017 balance sheets in Chinese shadow banking rose from 14 trn yuan to 56 trn. Then Beijing stampe… https://t.co/WuCzVGMxIa

Lucian Freud, Reflection with Two Children (Self-portrait), 1965. One of the stunning images in the @royalacademy s… https://t.co/nt60S4BcIL

The surge in Polish wages between 2005 and 2008 peaked at 13%. In 2018 wage growth was back to 8%. Under influence… https://t.co/9V0L6uvuc3

If in London the Lucien Freud self-portraits at the @royalacademy are stunning. Self-portrait, Reflection, 2002… https://t.co/CSEPMO47xx

Oil and gas production in US surged from 2010-2015, then plateaued and surged again from 2017. Now producers are sc… https://t.co/Td4Pa3j9O2

Edward Hopper arrived in Paris for the first time in October 1906, coincidentally a day after Cezanne died in the s… https://t.co/rfrWLD3bfb

@adam_tooze You might be interested in this article about Sudanese mercenaries in the Yemen War. All kinds of fasci… https://t.co/nqQ0GC9AYT

On the left the Mini of the 1980s when were oblivious to the danger of the climate crisis. On the right the sophist… https://t.co/Kvck1KXynu

During the Christmas season in 1974, the radical Danish Solvognen theatre group held several days of events dressed… https://t.co/MLBfma1oVT

13.4 % of Americans claim to have known a friend/family member who died due to inability to afford medical treatmen… https://t.co/97LIJoIUrW

Between 2013 and 2017 balance sheets in Chinese shadow banking rose from 14 trn yuan to 56 trn. Then Beijing stampe… https://t.co/b4DVB1Q3GI

The central bank discussion about how to strengthen wage bargaining pressure and thus make 2% inflation goal more a… https://t.co/DAKb6Vphxf

Weitang town, Suzhou gathers more than 50 manufacturers of violin bows, more than 1,000 skilled craftsmen, the annu… https://t.co/13eZt52XGC