ADAM TOOZE

"Democrats in tenements, six floors worth! 2 for every square meter.” The aristocratic hostility of literary theori… https://t.co/0eLnPdnWkm

Philosopher and polymath Hans Blumbenberg is unlikely to be appearing on a German stamp any time soon. @PBahners di… https://t.co/YXTrv1UFek

A monetarist take on the slowdown in China. Growth in M1 is way down in line with growth in nominal GDP.… https://t.co/FTKpaYksMG

Data for gender balance at top 1% and bottom 1% of wage distribution are pretty striking for AE. Several “progressi… https://t.co/LgewkD4wCq

Interesting report on the relevance of ILO push to expand coverage of wage statistics for Africa when only 10% of w… https://t.co/V0ZcCkT2iP

Real wage growth in the G20 was disappointingly low in 2017 and no more than 0.4% in AE but China boosts the averag… https://t.co/yGGkkxblU5

Amongst weird historical coincidences …. original McDonalds opened in California in May 1940 in week of Fall of Fra… https://t.co/G1daz1bFs5

This is an important thread by @TarikCyrilAmar on the politics of remembering who actually ended the Cold War i.e.… https://t.co/r03EwkiL3S

"Global real wage growth in 2017 at 1.8% was not only lower than in 2016 2.4%, but fell to its lowest growth rate s… https://t.co/Ai6Uku5ACG

Whatever it takes may have stopped the crisis in 2012 but Draghi did not actually put his foot on the gas until spr… https://t.co/QjSIbnHT1b

Delighted. I honestly always wished to see the book in airport bookstores. But until you sent the photo I saw it on… https://t.co/Jne8vF0Iuv

@jayphoward @TheEconomist because solar goes offline and people are still awake.

“the (IMF’s) current policy can give individual official bilateral creditors a veto over Fund lending decisions.” o… https://t.co/0Af2LNj605

Just published my latest post to say three things about the world today: The world is much better The world is aw… https://t.co/nfsqHrJUR1

Confused about what exactly Xi and Trump promised each other yesterday? Here's a side-by-side comparison of the r… https://t.co/ifsbFHGqpm

“Draghi understands that the euro is a deeply political project, and he’s made a big contribution to saving it” Wol… https://t.co/50ItzFqGY7

@FreisinnigeZtg @jameshawes2 which is why I referred to former GDR/Prussia. Thinking about it, how much of the form… https://t.co/KrB1XWS6xY

The expansion of solar is putting huge surge loads on power networks. @TheEconomist maps the “duck chart” for Calif… https://t.co/19vwvlhpbA

The spirit of the East: "Germany’s CDU should abandon the culturally alien former GDR/Prussia to AfD and concentrat… https://t.co/yIwudyFGAk

China has 942 GW of cool fired capacity installed but that has to be weighed against 600 GW in renewable capacity a… https://t.co/Srag56G5zy

Mass incarceration puts families under huge stress: 1/28 American kids 2.7 m in total have a parent in jail. More t… https://t.co/CfrT1Ts8B0

Growth in total social financing in China has plunged. @colbyLsmith incisively outlines the challenges ahead beyond… https://t.co/2VbhMhF1Lu

@whyvert actually. you are right. @TheEconomist discusses immigration but points out that the economic research is… https://t.co/p2khAO770L

The once highly mobile population is increasingly immobile. Annual rate of movement has halved since the 1980s. Har… https://t.co/XrAVgcn4Rg

If fed shifts to using the “overnight bank funding rate” as its policy interest rate, it will be targeting an offsh… https://t.co/LNV0XH8OfB

How unequally and how fast have incomes grown in the US since the 1970s. Really useful write up by @AustinClemens2… https://t.co/dYGyn2p94U

End of an era in tech in Germany/Europe. From its launch in 1986 CeBIT tech trade fair in Hannover established itse… https://t.co/TCqNLTKlFG

On Blackstone’s giant Spanish real estate portfolio and the leverage it is exercising over Madrid. Don Quijones… https://t.co/hCBwByZG9r

In an age of digital communication and mobility place still matters: the probability of someone in the US having a… https://t.co/aLf0yWoXiW

"we all have self-aggrandising pathologies. For investors, it's that they are the economy, and that the Fed must ne… https://t.co/53krnlyBBX

From convergence to divergence: until 1980 both high and low skill wages were converging across the US, since 1980… https://t.co/R6xe1tKH7w

“People don’t want the whole world to know they r selling something for £40m  people spending a lot of money in cur… https://t.co/B2x6aVvRdc

“It has been a long time since the populations of western countries were “all in it together”. But they once were.… https://t.co/7ylUYD07fH

Anyone who teaches history PhD hopes that their students will go on to do intellectually rigorous and important res… https://t.co/mdF4UnyToE