ADAM TOOZE

"It is literally impossible at the moment for any company to say that their cobalt supply chain is highly ethical,”… https://t.co/RWTf1dAwTS

Some forms of capital really aren’t that mobile: VW CFO: “In our industry, there is no way to make any abrupt, larg… https://t.co/Qdn4mUwXUD

The proportions are different but China’s volume of freight traffic is the largest in the world on rail, on road an… https://t.co/UGjq6kVxro

The decline of unionization in the US private sector during the 1980s and 1990s was truly spectacular. w/t… https://t.co/5gtotQbofw

Medicaid and CHIP are key to the redistributive support that the US state provides to bottom 20 % of households.… https://t.co/g2LZEhfynW

@postdiscipline @BuddyYakov bought one tweet at a time! 😉

Postwar Germany experienced dramatic inter-generational educational mobility. Since the 1970s that progress has slo… https://t.co/vrETMZfqSX

Someone has done a great map of some of the short-lived states that emerged during the Russian Civil War.… https://t.co/9BLvrbziNs

@BuddyYakov Its a risk worth taking! 😉

A stark graph from the CBO mapping means-tested benefits and taxation onto the US income distribution provides a dr… https://t.co/dibABwJawt

Wrong vocation? Drop out rates from Germany’s famous apprenticeship system are surprisingly high, 24 % for all youn… https://t.co/gsk6JCa9B5

For American households in bottom 20 % of income distribution, means-tested benefits such as medicaid, children hea… https://t.co/APkZooVBQC

Watch The Walls of the WTO, a short film by Ryan S. Jeffery and @zeithistoriker that revisits the history of twenti… https://t.co/TzCvfDxkg9

Germany’s apprenticeship system does not just build a solid “middle class” it is hierarchically structured by educa… https://t.co/crNjXP0UIF

"Together, CBO estimates, the provisions of the ACA that were in effect in 2014 boosted household income, on averag… https://t.co/R1yKBx3cWd

Move South Young People! Alternative indicator of hot spots in German labour market: the relationship between suppl… https://t.co/0737UDsmmk

One of side effects of slower and more unequal growth is that income growth for much of US population depends on tr… https://t.co/1NUU1XkGP2

The working of welfare, childcare and the labour market mean that poverty in Germany is a function of family type.… https://t.co/zrhiDlnvHv

Of the modest reduction in inequality produced by US state 50 % comes through social and health insurance, 25 % thr… https://t.co/1Azm8Jqzkd

Occupational patterns of parents with kids in Germany remain strikingly classical. Only 3 % have woman as sole brea… https://t.co/o3PPFXG0rx

Comparing OECD members it is pretty hard to deny the existence of the reality of something like the “European welfa… https://t.co/9SwREHCMAb

Whether you track into a Gymnasium or a Realschule/Hauptschule in 5/6th grade is not an absolute divide in a German… https://t.co/F2y45uLzp9

"Poor countries suffer deeper and more frequent recessions and crises, each time suffering permanent output losses… https://t.co/wxGFxmVR5T

Kids from German famiiles that are at risk of poverty and have no experience of university are more likely to drop… https://t.co/FxLA8O126K

Old Man in A Hurry – Churchill and Europe. Typically judicious review by @RichardToye @ExeterCIGH of two important… https://t.co/3dEYZ4A5Af

@StefanSasse ahhh interesting point. Will see whether there are data on that. thanks for great point.

Germany’s tripartite high school system produces considerable hurdles to upward mobility: 2 % of students from Real… https://t.co/DCg3ljFC0P

Bracing for an escalation of the crisis in Congo? This excellent piece by Joe Trapido in the NLR provides important… https://t.co/s8YfhlQliL

One of the basic determinants of German social structure is the choice of middle school/high school entering 5th gr… https://t.co/xzbwKTg7An

There will be an English-language version of "The Germany Illusion" coming out next month! https://t.co/T2LIGp6ao3

The “dark side” of the German success story revealed: @M_C_Klein and @MFratzscher dig deep! Verteilungskampf is ess… https://t.co/796Wy4lcpl

Participation in German elections is heavily determined by levels of unemployment. Work by Armin Schaefer for… https://t.co/jEjfCxEzXo

Will it? Wont it? Is Turkey the weak link in the EM chain? The lira fell yesterday to lowest level in 28 years. Plu… https://t.co/LEwj4ZJCaG

As in other capitalist democracies in Germany too electoral participation has declined and particularly sharply for… https://t.co/M5tZ9ObEYN

It isn’t just the rise in the scale of EM debt that is worrying the @IMFNews it is the structure i.e. borrowing fro… https://t.co/OlNutckBSv

Quintiles of the income distribution across the EU compared in standard units. A sobering index of where the UK (Ve… https://t.co/LuiyjOMRdm