ADAM TOOZE

Rumours suggest that the concrete in China's new islands in South China Sea is crumbling and their foundations turn… https://t.co/gecJQHK7io

America spent nearly $12bn on infrastructure in Iraq following its invasion increasing the road network by 21%. On… https://t.co/nnvSItySX5

@mr_archenemy @NoLongerBennett "Even long-haul flights now beat cars, official data shows.” is the language in the… https://t.co/e9Gdly8Q58

Kaombo Norte oil platform lights up the sea some 260km (160 miles) off the coast of Angola. The processing platform… https://t.co/HhbBF4bH2b

Oil accounts for 95 % of Angola export earnings and 2/3 of government revenue. It squeezes the rest of the economy… https://t.co/h7LZhTQjjY

Wrecked: How the American Automobile Industry Destroyed Its Capacity to Compete by Joshua Murray & Michael Schwart… https://t.co/Mbey2FCtGT

During the 1936 strike in Flint Michigan when a corporate PR referred to GM a “big family”, Homer Martin of the UAW… https://t.co/yF0bm8ZcLF

If you want your song to be a hit in the new world of streaming, you need to get to the catchy chorus as quickly

Does the growth in subscriptions to the RISC-V foundation signal a possible challenge to the instruction-set archit… https://t.co/DOlz6onYue

Why the future must belong to fake meat. The carbon, water and land use footprint of existing meat subsitutes are a… https://t.co/YYt7iJHqq5

For years, LA kept tree growth to a minimum in some neighborhoods because police officers were worried that trees c… https://t.co/GUEtc7Mf6q

No major economy has a larger gap beween the domestic production of CO2 emissions & consumption through imported pr… https://t.co/LQCKh0I7sz

Airbus, in a forecast published in 2017, predicted that air traffic will grow at 4.4% pa to 2037 -> 36,600 new pass… https://t.co/HafnQgZTCY

Each of the Airbus 350 planes sits at the apex of a system of supply chains which fans out across the world, bringi… https://t.co/OEBJTWxi8T

Coal power becoming 'uninsurable' as firms refuse cover. At least 35 insurers with combined assets of $8.9tn, equi… https://t.co/lcgTrVUnCK

“Designed by Apple in California. Assembled in China” – Jobs built Macs in the US, after he joined in 1998 Tim Cook… https://t.co/5bLuBnTqPc

As US commerce department floats idea of regulating import of any technology that presents a nat sec threat, US is… https://t.co/6VT7HtkESD

Hasankeyf, a town of some 3,000 souls in Turkey’s south-east, has cradled one civilisation after another for 12,000… https://t.co/tOg3HcqlKo

"to bring risks from climate change and the opportunities from the transition to a net zero economy into the heart… https://t.co/KzxU1rnY6c

These data on the US job market for economics are fascinating. Macro is largest field of jobs but also quite compet… https://t.co/vdqr2mg1mH

"What we seem to require is a view of civil politics as both representative & artificial, simultaneously natural &… https://t.co/FRVzkUAjYB

Ssustained fall in Italy’s household saving rate since 1980s is remarkable, especially because it goes hand in hand… https://t.co/WRezZNkDJc

In this remarkable Fed graph, the predominance of light green since 2009 shows the diffuse and slow nature of recov… https://t.co/7vFvXNjqNr

Imagine flying under fire in that machine! https://t.co/kEfxU1a248

Residential property prices are still well above their immediate post-crisis levels in both advanced and emerging m… https://t.co/WdMtfyQVoo

There was a bump in US capital goods orders in 2016-7, which has collapsed in 2018 and is showing little sign of an… https://t.co/2g8MntK7e2

Last year there were 390 m cases of infection with dengue fever. Global warming and unplanned urbanization create b… https://t.co/ZaAj8UagnL

Consumer spending makes up 68% of US GDP. It is generally therefore also the main driver of GDP growth though its s… https://t.co/TuMGxFSzj9

From 2011 US fiscal policy turned contractionary whilst unemp was still high. The driver was falling unemployment s… https://t.co/IFpOovh2RV

Planes made by Boeing and Airbus aren’t faster than they were in the 1970s, but they are 70% more efficient per pas… https://t.co/qLl5lrecaj

The beginning of the end of the GroKo era? Germany’s Social Democrats have voted in leftwingers Walter-Borjans and… https://t.co/hPezhq8bDa

November 27, 1959 Miles Davis and Tito Puente play a dance at St. Nicholas Arena, a boxing arena on the Upper West… https://t.co/qFggpbBPri