ADAM TOOZE

“It’s not as if Sisi is Mandela”: striking report by @QuentinPeel on the EU’s new “realism” in dealing with Middle… https://t.co/Yo4LgJR17h

Whereas the US remains squarely in the goldilocks zone of growth – not too fast, not too slow – the eurozone is in… https://t.co/CArcykllrz

'the Akwizgran Discrepancy’ – the strange strip of neutral land between Belgium, Netherlands and Prussia’s Western… https://t.co/w4BvblUPO6

'The Motherland Calls' monument in Volgograd, Russia, erected in 1967. Tallest statue of a woman in the world. https://t.co/zua2K5910j

The first two years of Trump’s presidency coincided with suddens urge in growth expectations not just in US but acr… https://t.co/zvMfMuE5J4

Why under Germany’s coal phase out deal the most modern and least polluting coal fired power station in Europe will… https://t.co/e6Pp0qfYSv

The decline in the French and German share of Europe Community’s GDP is one defining features of EU today despite G… https://t.co/e5cJZpSo9d

For those who read German a rich thread of comments here from @SDullien on the history of economic policy advice in… https://t.co/pyiIArvPkV

“Wild mustard” – how plant breeding has since 1600 created kale, broccoli, Brussels sprouts, cauliflower and now Br… https://t.co/c6NRn7JBVC

In 2006 as Agenda 2010 was being defended and debt brake was being conceived, 29% of German economist denied any ro… https://t.co/WXtQUyMZGR

The €722 billion alphabet soup investors ignore at their peril, from @josephttwallace and @pat_minczeski… https://t.co/uWR0NEkY5z

32,000 civilian dead and 60,000 wounded in Afghanistan in last decade of war. https://t.co/tyKQnKk6TW

265m Indonesians have reached a per capita income of $10,000. Above this rate continued super rapid growth has been… https://t.co/0Y5ZJInys8

"Thanks to China’s appetite for cherries and Venezuelan and Haitian migrant labour Garces Fruit has become the worl… https://t.co/aJQZbsQ93i

How the DoJ’s anti corruption action against Alstom tilted the disposal of its nuclear unit towards GE, with disast… https://t.co/dCwGkLyIqb

"Apple, which has a big supply chain in China, is committed to paying its vendors $42bn in 2019 and the contracts c… https://t.co/zJfrQcYBST

Across a range of globalization indicators 2008 marked a sharp break, but cross border travel and communication and… https://t.co/lTu2tTfdwg

“state governments typically offer big investors subsidies worth 3% of wages over 20 years. In luring Amazon last y… https://t.co/ln4qFmJNn5

India’s prestigious Jawaharlal Nehru University is rocked by struggles over academic administration and the Hindu N… https://t.co/uasMBjeWcO

Sisi’s regime in Egypt is building a giant new capital in the desert. It doesn’t yet have a name. But ti is equippe… https://t.co/xXW0vfh6Cq

Indian broadband internet subscriptions in India have exploded from 125m to 512m in only 3 years. It is a fiercely… https://t.co/P34tPGJQ5b

Fabulous report on the history and vicissitudes of China’s bicycle industry from French import, to bicycle nation,… https://t.co/2rcjfeNMOS

Since 2008 Greece’s gdp per capita performance is worse than that of Ukraine and Sudan. Cyprus and Italy have falle… https://t.co/WTOhDZ9sFl

Strange to find Max Weber’s "Politics as a Vocation” discussed in @TheEconomist. They overestimate his realism and… https://t.co/MsQLnqacSM

The divergent returns to exceptional high school entry qualifications produced in the UK by different universities… https://t.co/JsbS8WJYpd

The divergent orientation of students and courses cross the hierarchy of UK universities is becoming increasingly s… https://t.co/buU28HCoWt

In the years of Thatcher and Reagan there were parallels in development of US and UK inequality. But thereafter one… https://t.co/YRh5pYxAvw

India’s "informal economy, accounts for nine in ten jobs and perhaps 45% of gdP”. It makes official economic statis… https://t.co/5KjOmm4nxK

Chinese reported happiness plunged in early 2000s as unemployment surged as part of SOE restructuring and iron rice… https://t.co/4TYYOP583Z

Despite its spectacular economic success China ranks 86th in world happiness rankings. If one takes intertemporal c… https://t.co/XfkTjYSiIy

Canada Pension Plan Investment Board (cppib), manages C$454bn in pension funds for 20m of Canada’s citizens. It doe… https://t.co/aSwBWVsnfZ

The first Chinese translation of US declaration of independence in 1901 rendered “life, liberty and pursuit of happ… https://t.co/LXvW6jdrmd

The map of Libya’s Western oil infrastructure helps to explain why conflict is spreading North South from Tripoli a… https://t.co/ksACY3Yoa7

At Anaklia Georgia on the eastern End of Black Sea, Georgian European, American and AIIB money is constructing a po… https://t.co/2WA7NulUcV