ADAM TOOZE

Trump administration trade negotiators are pushing to raise autoworker wages in Mexico to minimum of $16 v. $8 curr… https://t.co/uqDhGXUbRy

A subcontinent as retail battleground: can Walmart beat Amazon to set the standard for ecommerce in India?… https://t.co/kZ9WQTQvle

Percentage of measured GDP contributed by women – imagine what this would look like if unwaged housework counted!… https://t.co/LqIxVbXPLY

Grown in China: China is by far the world’s largest investor in agronomical research. China is also building a mass… https://t.co/E49DvVn2B8

We could go on pretending that nothing was happening and simply point to the coup and its aftermath, or we could re… https://t.co/4ohHFPAmih

“There’s not much wrong with Argentina that higher rates cannot fix, but there’s not much Turkey can do that won’t… https://t.co/kOKRDnbGSg

"For much of the past year walking into the grand building across from the White House that houses the US Chamber o… https://t.co/40RtEFcwkE

Fewer foreign students are receiving visas from the US. It could be a real closing off, or it could be the result o… https://t.co/LCGdoDxW0o

“The south has plenty of water, the north much less. If possible, the north should borrow a little.” Mao Zedong – C… https://t.co/jzabXkLT8p

“Will China widen its lead?” asked analyst Edison Lee. “If Nokia and Ericsson go out of business and it’s just Huaw… https://t.co/r67U37iGd3

"It is no exaggeration to say the future of China’s economy is threatened by lack of water.” China’s northern and c… https://t.co/bt8UQT5aFP

Shell’s floating LNG factory Prelude is the largest ship ever built, displacing as much as six aircraft carriers.… https://t.co/KLg0Tw5Ptm

Astonishingly, what remains of the French island empire gives it the claim to the 2nd largest Exclusive Economic Zo… https://t.co/7FFgLi4S1j

The rich-to-poor used clothes trade was once a $4bn business, now major East African importers have announced that… https://t.co/cZV3ghl0kU

Island strategy: we talk a lot about the S. China, islands and EEZ’s, but look at how the remnants of the French Em… https://t.co/ASm6EDkvup

Three-year postdoctoral fellowship in Global Intellectual History @FU_Berlin starting Sep 1:… https://t.co/zDKSlXIlcv

On reading Das Kapital for … oh, the last 43 years. Michael Heinrich giving us a taste of the Neue Marx Lektüre in… https://t.co/AUnZlRsSDA

Thrift shock: East Africa is the hub of the global used clothes market and Rwandan effort to shut out US imports ha… https://t.co/klB2GCW5XQ

En détresse: French overseas department of Mayotte has lowest per capita income in EU at $10.6k, 84 % of pop live b… https://t.co/rcw2A2VZR5

TSMC 7 nanometer nodes made it the technical leader in global microchip production in 2017, driving market valuatio… https://t.co/QvzdVtTTpY

Are we on the threshold of the cubesat era in space exploration and development: will 10cm*10cm*10cm mini satellite… https://t.co/w4GrFMjc3U

Where drought and harvest failure go together with acute hunger 2001-13. Indonesia has since improved, but I was su… https://t.co/gTYtxP8F2Y

No longer space-racing: In the late 1960s NASA’s budget soared to in excess of 0.7% of GDP, the deciine since then… https://t.co/9R1YGlnyJq

Summers doubles down on secular stagnation: If budget deficits were normal and not growing, real long-term i.r. rat… https://t.co/BwuaAgSy94

US manufacturing firms may have shed manufacturing labour but btw the 1970s and early 2000s they added a considerab… https://t.co/fDhE678vo9

US media are openly speculating about political economy of regime change in Iran. That is surely simplistic and pre… https://t.co/IjcUnA4Zxn

Most of the job losses in American manufacturing since 1977 were due to plant and firm closures, not to layoffs wit… https://t.co/azRWlz8ZOQ

Video of an interesting evening of discussion on occasion of Marx’s 200th birthday at @VersoBooks w/t @UgoMattei… https://t.co/SDmhZU58Xc

"Over the first three months of 2018, Iran’s currency collapsed into total free fall, with the dollar gaining 37 pe… https://t.co/WXsk4jsR4u

South Africa’s energy system is so dependent on coal that it emits as much CO2 as the UK despite having a populatio… https://t.co/wUtq7eEnfs

The US upset regulatory status quo in space (&facilitated the growth of asteroid mining companies) by passing the C… https://t.co/aRx17Jpkvn