ADAM TOOZE

"In 1974 AT&T’s annual report dismissed the risks of antitrust and advised Americans that “competition breeds a was… https://t.co/IBo43q5QGf

“Army” not = army https://t.co/SVoDyNstgI

"by 2027 Amazon’s profits are projected to be twice as big relative to world GDP as the East India Company’s in 181… https://t.co/2DYlP9Fyof

Why is driving a car unaffordable in Motor city? In Detroit, average cost of insuring a car is an exorbitant $5414… https://t.co/pBy1qZg0ca

Racialized exclusion: The combined impact of unemployment, incarceration and exclusion/withdrawal from the labour m… https://t.co/l0B3UYJHBw

Hegemony-Gesamtkapitalist-Weltinnenpolitik? How to characterize the politics of crisis-fighting in 2008. Framing Cr… https://t.co/Ahz9hCGgI6

As the Indian economy grows, it is recapitulating the classic U-shape relationship btw education and labour force p… https://t.co/nS0YAmZ8py

As India’s growth has raised incomes, women have dropped out of the paid labour force. Extraordinary @TheEconomist… https://t.co/XGyzoOIlN3

Sledgehammering a nut: How billion dollar stealth weapons are deployed against dispersed terrorist camps – extraord… https://t.co/C1D1rGGata

Fascinating chart mapping escalation of Sino-American trade war onto 4 digit HS product codes. From excellent @FD p… https://t.co/6raBcK5QDo

China’s statistics are bad. Many criticisms of them are worse. There are many strange discrepancies in China’s data… https://t.co/M7UeEvPDpc

Home to factories of Peugeot, VW, Kia and Jaguar Land Rover Slovakia has the highest production of cars per capita… https://t.co/G3ls30ZcyO

Property investors increasingly drive China’s urban property market: in 1Q2018 69% of properties were purchased as… https://t.co/NGpiffXvXs

Was the Brexit campaign neoliberal? Not sure I agree with this from @CJFDillow but provocative as always.… https://t.co/DFS5q4jmq6

As the world melts from human-induced climate change, there is a shortage of food-grade CO2 so severe that this sum… https://t.co/DY4PSkAn34

"modern trade is dominated by the exchange of intermediate goods within complex supply chains”, so the impact of wi… https://t.co/MBr69SAfwy

Why China’s real estate matters: "real estate represents c. 50% Chinese investment & nearly 50% of China's GDP is i… https://t.co/ZaDa1oJ8ua

Egypt and Italy’s ENI are key to dramatic gas development plans for the Eastern Mediterranean: Israel & Sisi’s regi… https://t.co/XvUHm9nnG8

Agreed – also check out @DuncanWeldon’s new review in @prospect_uk & note we’re giving copies of Crashed (worth £3… https://t.co/jT11XY0y0b

The globalization of the US economy must be judged in relative terms: Measured by ratio of imports&exports to GDP,… https://t.co/tnGSv1rb5m

In Europe the politics of migration may be heating up, but in Agadez Niger the gateway to the trans-Saharan route t… https://t.co/A1cIQfO3bn

"Deference to the Fed? No. Respect? Yes.” Great piece by @bhgreeley and @alexandrascaggs opens the debate about wha… https://t.co/q8SvT2NoNz

Trade appears to be really good fro global coporations: Global trade growth is closely correlated with change in ea… https://t.co/ne3OhwOqdj

@jellevanlottum @Cambridge_Uni Hi @jellevanlottum it was a cheeky question … sorry!

Is Trump coming for the Fed? Read this by @alexandrascaggs on the politics of Fed independence! Typically eloquent… https://t.co/w9Sk6sMVJN

The timeline of US border apprehensions is a powerful antidote to migration alarmism. Current levels are 1/5th what… https://t.co/9aBHiu6Cac

South Korea has the lowest fertility rate in the world. Women face huge hurdles to combining work and family life a… https://t.co/aq59PWjYtt

Trump’s escalation of tension with Iran since May 2018 has had a devastating effect on its currency.… https://t.co/km3XgyUmF0

Credit policy targeting asset prices through admin control of banks = key to China’s sustained growth. Are they an… https://t.co/n4veXVgNOu

As the yuan falls v. $ Chinese exporters repatriate less of their export earnings. This is subject to large fluctua… https://t.co/QAJRTPnqkN

@DanielaGabor D’accord. The aim would certainly not be rehabilitation! It’s the historian in me. I’m fascinated by specimens.