ADAM TOOZE

@Bakhunin This is such important work. Fascinating and horrifying and, as you say, depressingly familiar.

The cotton harvest in Uzbekistan is the world’s largest recruitment operation, with some 2.6 million people tempora… https://t.co/6GvxQXTB3q

Are we in a “good economy” @Noahpinion on why the macroeconomic focus on level of employment that since 1930s has c… https://t.co/lrgXdYNlqE

Since 1997 a $5k gap has opened up btw price that GM/Ford can charge for their bestselling trucks v. their standard… https://t.co/GLVyePOFsZ

How California the hub of America’s tech boom become the state with the largest percentage (19%) of impoverished p… https://t.co/1ZsSYwINBC

Why Japan is a laggard on coal fired power stations and is offering billions in credits for coal-fired plants in re… https://t.co/196o2EYyg9

In 2016 Afghan security forces suffered 22 fatal casualties per day, today the figures are secret but the figure is… https://t.co/5MwGNznKga

Congo cover up: remarkable report by @columlynch on UN failure to investigate killing of two of its monitors in the… https://t.co/5zWGZ4M2y6

Egypt owes foreigners $93bn, 37% of gdp, up from 16% of gdp in 2016. 25% of that is due in the next two years. It…

383k dead, 6.1m South Sudanese—over half of pop—require food aid & 2.2 m displaced and weapons for this brutal conf… https://t.co/OCG7cTks32

In drought-ridden Sahel 6m people facing starvation are dependent on the World Food Program – no more than a “plast… https://t.co/osDnB0yqXK

Latest Ebola outbreak is now the worst, after West African epidemic: WHO says 426 people have been infected, with… https://t.co/8Vjl1TP924

@adam_tooze Tourism is also responsible for nearly one tenth of the world's carbon emissions https://t.co/JomXklNisN

Tourism is directly responsible for 3% of global GDP, 5 % of total employment and 20% new jobs created worldwide an… https://t.co/diETCc8jD4

U. of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign has paid $424,000 to insure against a drop in Chinese students. Coverage provide… https://t.co/bBIlzRgS49

@robinalexander_ @welt Because ROW hopes that freed from constraints of German politics she might actually act.

Does this criticism of the new maritime fuel standards by @TheEconomist stand up? Claims that it will hugely raise… https://t.co/9cMtffGeqC

“When these unpaid foreign agents engage in this kind of so-called diplomacy all they do is weaken this president a… https://t.co/zWeFAaADGo

A narrow majority of Germans now favors increasing defense expenditure. But there continues to be opposition to eng… https://t.co/DvCt5s1k9L

“We have the collective size of France with the competitiveness of Germany.” Europe’s new Hanseatic league moves cl… https://t.co/BmO9o3qWqQ

Time to puncture the myth perpetrated by #Brexiteers that UK economic performance has been held back by EU and Sing… https://t.co/5vyaKCHPf0

Megalopolis Cairo: Collapse to come? Or has it already happened? Fascinating piece (in German) by Rainer Hermann… https://t.co/U1GWsHoyTy

Great review of Chris Clark’s latest book on Time and Power out now in German in 2019 in English.… https://t.co/8UTFFuIREZ

"Estonia is a member of Nato. At the same time, you are exercising this type of (Russian) business. What the hell a… https://t.co/WCKNXDWfcO

Great sentences from @MESandbu #ftfreelunch via @fteconomics “It has been a long time since the populations of w… https://t.co/tA1nDDyOzJ

@M__Saintemarie spellcheck strikes again!

«La France périphérique» de Christophe Guilluy: la géographie est un sport de combat Jean-Laurent Cassely Geography… https://t.co/hizIwesLDZ

Forced labour: Uzbekistan is struggling to shed its pariah status due to employment of forced labour in cotton harv… https://t.co/KZ56Lg7SJq

Hans Blumbenberg’s “Zettelkasten” (roughly translated as a card file of research notes) in the Marbach literature a… https://t.co/QRyiOuKwxI

"Kapitalismus ist nicht niedlich": Bei "BMF im Dialog" diskutierte Bundesfinanzminister @OlafScholz mit dem Wirtsch… https://t.co/N0w1JzMtnR

Since 2008 China has accounted for 45% of global GDP growth. This has dragged the world’s center of economic gravit… https://t.co/oZjmi8aUiU

Its been a crazy week but this is video evidence that this actually happened: A public debate with @OlafScholz abou… https://t.co/NXv2f5PtQB

Thanks to a one-child policy Vietnam is getting old before it gets rich. It has reached peak working-age population… https://t.co/knu0SCMkQz

@eudoxe81 GREAT thank you for the reading list. Weekend reading sorted out. A

Wow, killer fact in this week’s @TheEconomist piece on “chip wars”. China. Spends more on semiconductor imports tha… https://t.co/f55xI5HWYG

No Society: Review (in German) of the controversial work of French geographer Christophe Guilluy on structures of d… https://t.co/X6qQi1uIFe