ADAM TOOZE

Metals-trading in London can be traced back as far as 1571. A metals-only exchange that traded mostly copper and ti… https://t.co/IP8FrACWPO

Layers of Berlin: the ruined foundations of Gestapo headquarters, the remains of the Berlin Wall, the Nazi Air Mini… https://t.co/cV7okUcJKT

The painfully uncomfortable armchairs used for China’s diplomatic meetings are made by a single company, Tiantan (o… https://t.co/S61VLSB3Aw

In sub-Saharan Africa, 8m are in tertiary education (Univ, & vocational colleges). That is about 9% of young people… https://t.co/IZG0pSK7fV

Chinese universities produced a record 8.3m grads this summer. Up from 5.7m a decade ago -> 2/3 of job market entra… https://t.co/y00T1DR3XR

The labor force of the 21 countries between the Baltic Sea and the Balkans will shrink by more than a quarter by 20… https://t.co/ahdyaFna3H

over 90% of assets avoiding the Common Reporting Standards designed to limit tax evasion have been herded into the… https://t.co/ACHxhNSOfW

When an international conference on Black Power took place in British Protectorate Bermuda on July 10-13 July 1969,… https://t.co/GXeHYhWm7R

Last October Lena Reimann of Kiel University published a warning that 37 of the 49 unesco world-heritage sites loca… https://t.co/xzKC0bcC0A

Draghi associate and Bank of Italy boas Fabio Panetta will replace Coeure on the ECB executive board, taking the It… https://t.co/WulIiPo4g8

New York is paying almost $800m for the Big U, a necklace of parks, walls and elevated roads to shield lower Manhat… https://t.co/oaro0hKTIe

First suggested in 1970s, marine-ice-sheet instability was long considered largely theoretical. In 1995 the Larsen… https://t.co/YyRbPqgJvk

@WhelanKarl @RobinBrooksIIF Lets just say that someone was suffering from sleep deprivation … and then, oddly, it caught on!

Each black dot marks a spot where we should expect a “once a century” sealevel event to occur annually from 2050 ev… https://t.co/W11wWmQWTV

“During my meetings and sessions in Asia last week, America and China were the hot topics of conversation. Europe w… https://t.co/4NpMjXKZKD

How modern Portuguese nationalism reinvented the rural traditions of the Minho region to capture the essence of an… https://t.co/wfUOCLvZmU

Is the dissent in the ranks of the ECB over quantitative easing a symptom of the hiatus before Christine Lagarde ta… https://t.co/x6D8jiMULg

The art museums of the Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation in Lisbon are amongst the best-curated I've ever had the good… https://t.co/QlqDoKZbzE

@DuncanWeldon @adam_tooze https://t.co/TikDjSiryL This was good. There is a fantastic chapter on Gulbenkian in Yergin's "The Prize" too.

@DuncanWeldon @adam_tooze This one came out in January: https://t.co/zjPLw8C0Gt

@DuncanWeldon Completely agree! Outstanding curation …..

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In which European officials respond to an @adam_tooze hashtag. https://t.co/NeRKucfmM9

I’m going to be in Lisbon until Sunday. If there are twitter friends who would like to get together to talk Portug… https://t.co/yVYLp8FdVI

#Map shows the largest #religion by district in #India. Source: https://t.co/3xyU67ai6y #geographyteacher https://t.co/TjPsKBcpap

A band of American libertarians and devotees of Austrian economics took themselves on a cruise to Alaska.… https://t.co/8anOZ1uooG

Europe needs fiscal stimulus more than the rest of the world economy, but faces bigger hurldes to introducing it. T… https://t.co/HKALiagAJo

SOEs and government ministries control 50 percent of global power generation capacity. They are critical to climate… https://t.co/PXzyj2Pdqn

@sgoilear @adam_tooze The first "self-service" Tesco opened in St Albans, Herts in 1948. Grp's founder Jack Cohen a… https://t.co/XIClJGVmEG

This is a position that Merkel has upheld grosso modo since her role as a young Minister for the Environment in bro… https://t.co/23gfg5zFUc

“the task of distributing money to one subject or the other, that’s typically a fiscal task … It’s a government dec… https://t.co/RePcqWYCKw