ADAM TOOZE

@adam_tooze And like all tales of feisty small-scale fossil fuel entrepreneurs, it's one underwritten by massive federal support.

“Collapsing decision space”: If you start worrying about hypersonic weapons skimming surface of the sea at Mach 5 t… https://t.co/DYpMQk0Q35

Fracking was once a tale of feisty small-scale entrepreneurs. No longer. Big oil is moving into the shale industry… https://t.co/lshoWdOk7S

In fact of US bluster construction of 9.5bn euro 1200 km Nord Stream 2 gas pipeline is progressing at rapid pace =… https://t.co/UAeL0B52vK

How America’s 7bn chocolate chip a year habit was launched in Massachusetts but entrenched by WWII. As an outsider… https://t.co/fgdEKN1p67

The output gap calculations being used to fine-tune Eurozone fiscal targets are a disaster. Inferred from runs of b… https://t.co/IvW7x4uQyb

We have been looking at questionable output gaps, such as Italy's, where low growth over the last decade appears to… https://t.co/tbdv1RRBRW

Increased labor force participation is one culprit for the elevated unemployment rate. However, 1) employment-to-po… https://t.co/4O8t0iu4Aj

Der Spiegel have got hold of a Franco-German paper setting out their plans for a new eurozone budget. No size speci… https://t.co/gEnFAjJMhv

Ex German Chancellor and Putin associate Gerhard Schröder to Reuters: “We should not put up with being treated like… https://t.co/viH1UEaz9A

“It is absurd that Europe pays for 80% of its energy import – worth €300 bn pa – in US dollars when only roughly 2%…

Don't think Westminster realises quite how tired the EU27 are of pandering to Britain's self-destructive neuroses.… https://t.co/o3clv9rzPr

Fantastic piece by Adam Shatz on Sartre in the Middle East: https://t.co/XemMpLVa3o via @LRB

Output capacity estimates for Greece basically track the recession induced by the Eurozone crisis. https://t.co/w0wuG0Q8bF

This is an important point. In 2008, traders mostly expected that (1) TARP would pass and (2) that markets would ta… https://t.co/FBJL31qCA5

The race to feed the world: remarkable update on long-term @faznet reportage on global agriculture and food. Highli… https://t.co/M4welAh4dP

El Nino events of 1982-3, 1997-8 and 2015-6 caused billions of dollars of damage and cost thousands of lives worldw… https://t.co/WGvHgKDdW0

As Sears dies in the US in Germany, Otto, Neckermann and Quelle, once the three dominant forces in the mail order c… https://t.co/Dyndfo85nb

“difficult to remember a time there were so many threats to food commodity prices on so many fronts” Extreme weathe… https://t.co/OQY3LTuOCT

Purchasing power across Europe continues to reflect older history of economic and political divergence. The divide… https://t.co/nwG8ypg78j

The rebalancing and reduction of US force deployment since 1989 away from Europe has been remarkable.… https://t.co/iJIzv8rqzy

“Finance track” v. “sherpa track”: G20 business is conducted along twin tracks originating in earlier Finance Minis… https://t.co/j0NeITW4ml

US military dominance is huge and can make European defense efforts look trivial, but US resources actually committ… https://t.co/gHbOInifyp

@DEHEdgerton @NewStatesman @adam_tooze @IPR_NickP @redhistorian @KingsCBH @kingshistory Congratulations, David.

Venezuela’s implosion threatens a public health crisis across not just Venezuela but Amazonian Brazil as well. Mea… https://t.co/gMUubUU5YX

Chinese officials are adamant: One Belt and Road Initiative is, not "a Chinese Marshall plan for the 21st century.… https://t.co/AQgqMCHUfr

The hard core of China’s state capitalism are the SOEs controlled by Sasac. After consolidation and reorgnization t… https://t.co/z4XKcunaib

How cool is that! #Map shows Oceanic Drainage across the world. In which ocean does water flow. Love it. Source:… https://t.co/NWu2zTbpFW

This is a fascinating and revealing discussion with A G Hopkins about his favorite books on American Empire. Recomm… https://t.co/P5wsSh6q5g

If it goes by the flowchart, Italy’s budget clash with the EU is a slow burning conflict that could stretch into 20… https://t.co/sLwBrl2fxW

In July, China’s cabinet instructed local authorities to accelerate infrastructure spending, funded through the sal… https://t.co/6BPcU2Qndx

The shock to the German automotive sector from Dieselgate accounts for the fall in German GDP QoQ @OxfordEconomics… https://t.co/NuLdgwhVyX

More extraordinary poll numbers out of Germany: a black-green coalition more and more likely. https://t.co/XMDGtLYIEv

Fascinating Kehoe lecture at the IHR by Senia Paseta this evening on Suffrage and Citizenship in Ireland pre-WW1. https://t.co/qPt5NsVbXG