ADAM TOOZE

Germany has everything at stake in the future of the auto industry: "A workforce of around 800,000 is employed dir… https://t.co/JAg38qZRhT

Profoundly counterintuitive: “According to Brit gov analysis a cotton tote bag must be used 131 times before greenh… https://t.co/nIcXHDlVTX

Big Anglophone law firms that dominate the arena of global commercial law find it difficult to get together! As the… https://t.co/nGmMmWt27s

When discussing the bond market and the deficit, it is crucial to bear in mind that even a large deficit is small i… https://t.co/Dx8ehXAiO9

The AIDS crisis continues in Africa: In S and East Africa annual infections are running at 790,000 in West and Cent… https://t.co/k4LK1FT9ku

Plastic pollution is ugly and alarming in its scope but is it dangerous? Fascinating report on a known unknown by… https://t.co/dyyKCBF5BG

Addicted to combustion: European manufacturers and German firms in particular lag far behind in the competition to… https://t.co/ir2NPG99WJ

The surge in private jet ownership in the US is a remarkable testament to the global geography of the new gilded ag… https://t.co/7RM07JSb6r

By 2022 @knightfrank is expecting global population of people with net worth >$5m to reach 3.8m… https://t.co/q6JKbRt3SR

Really fascinating cultural/political history of the 1857 financial crisis – the first truly global crisis of capit… https://t.co/Fy6XUlyJcN

"Piketty is history, not the ineluctable future. If global labour force demographics drove inequality up, then thei… https://t.co/yuHHdI9UTF

Not just a China shock: the end of the Cold War saw both Asia and Eastern Europe added to the global labour force.… https://t.co/udjXDBIRxg

Automation may pose a serious threat to the market position of EM manufacturing hubs like Mexico.… https://t.co/UsRio3nkHw

In 1997 Mexican unit labour costs were half those of the US. By 2013 the gap had fallen to less than 20 %.… https://t.co/0cWi9bKpXC

As labour costs rise and robot prices fall, look to China for an absolutely massive surge in automation. Robot ship… https://t.co/jqrGGIWQYD

As focus of employment growth shifts to sectors with low productivity growth the overall labour productivity growth… https://t.co/1zhcJuK66c

Medicare/Medicaid expenditures on America’s massively overpriced health care system have the effect of flattening m… https://t.co/EH4s7Jypr6

The Asian post WWII baby boom is on a far vaster scale, but it follows the same basic chronology as that of the dva… https://t.co/lKcqLyPbm7

If the automation of services over the next few decades lives up to expectations of @BainAlerts it will exceed in s… https://t.co/sihMghxfjl

China’s State-Owned Assets Supervision and Administration Commission manages a portfolio of 106 SOE behemoths whose… https://t.co/orgryT1iB8

Of China’s SOE trading in Hong Kong, since 2016 30 have changed their statutes to give the Chinese Communist Party… https://t.co/N9L14bMXKZ

The $ 900 bn that 30 largest US firms hold offshore are largely invested in $ bonds. Data from Zoltan Pozsar via… https://t.co/WuMCLayyCO

Advantage or liability? Though they are manufactured all over the world, 70 % of premium cars sold have German badg… https://t.co/8Ox88rWDAS

Putin’s fiscal fortress: the contrast between Brazil and Russia’s credit rating highlights the significance to Puti… https://t.co/bfXJqMoEE0

The funds that giant US firms hold “offshore” and are now in the process of repatriating, are in fact already inves… https://t.co/Bb0UG84U3b

With 40 % of global trade is invoiced in dollars, a dollar appreciation tends to throttle trade and global economic… https://t.co/YdUtKZP3z7

Behemoth: A History of the Factory and the Making of the Modern World – I am really looking forward to reading this… https://t.co/URUebOdjCe

Judged by European “supercore” inflation which remained stubbornly stuck at 1 %, talk of a boom was always somewhat… https://t.co/fUotaiwm8e

Reserve Army of Labour: Labour market slack in the US is disappearing …. Arghh first article by @M_C_Klein behind… https://t.co/WF57dmlQ6V

Factor content of trade estimates of the impact on labour demand in the North of globalization suggest that it cut… https://t.co/q1Y0PwETgE

"Among solo parents, however, the vast majority (81%) are mothers; only 19% are fathers. This gender difference is… https://t.co/3qtaUpAenI

“By the time they turn 9, more than 20% of U.S. children born to a married couple and over 50% of those born to a