ADAM TOOZE

“From No to Yes by 20xx once …” Germany’s acting Finance Minister indicates there may be a phased program for comm… https://t.co/QMXQauslbh

The Bundestag is about to have as chair of its powerful budget cttee AfD’s Peter Boehringer previously known for hi… https://t.co/9jxSDCmOtq

One small segment of US opinion has a vastly outsized voice in economic policy discussion – market skeptic conserva… https://t.co/BabX37Yc8E

The United States erred … the Trump administration fundamentally reevaluates the cornerstone of globalization since… https://t.co/tQrWQ2tzZF

And the longer-run picture remains one of stagnation in productivity growth post-crisis. Changing this trajectory i… https://t.co/baJzY8TrRs

US coal mining jobs up in 2017. That that is even a headline is a sign of the times. We are talking about 50k worke…

Annus mirabilis: 1966 saw the publication of Lacan's Écrits, Foucault's The Order of Things, Althusser's Reading Ca… https://t.co/uCiEKDfi1D

Reversing previous trends wages have grown faster than profits in the US since 2012 @jasonfurman h/t @PIIE… https://t.co/woLgqWqrOo

I'm putting together a military history of PowerPoint and looking for early adopters, G6ers, operations bubbas and… https://t.co/z8wrleVUDa

Germany has the highest inequality of wealth in the Eurozone: 45 super-rich possess as much wealth as half the Germ… https://t.co/vpEgI1Un6w

The militarization of 18th century Europe eclipsed the older Spanish and Ottoman empires Karaman and Pamuk JEH (201… https://t.co/nw6pnC4BTN

Malthusian price cycle broken: relative prices of manuf to wheat stabilized in England in mid 1600s. Voigtländer&Vo… https://t.co/yDz7nAcIxf

UK documents on Yemen policy 1964: “It is not that we are frightened of oil being cut off .. but the profitability… https://t.co/BS02NGBMMC

The Atlantic advantage: how tax revenue per capita in England and Netherlands surged ahead 1500-1800 Karaman and Pa… https://t.co/oA8O4ivGrc

Urbanization rate in Europe probably overtook that of China around 1400. Voigtländer&Voth (2012)… https://t.co/4T5G9VOGTU

Growth mechanics from @jasonfurman You need a huge increase in corporate capital to raise GDP by much h/t @PIIE… https://t.co/nRbVvvQej1

It’s been a while… a mini-good-weekend-reads thread.

SPD hits new poll low (again). https://t.co/MuIIhDKNVW

European migration (suitably defined) dwarfs all other global population flows. Europe’s pop 1500 77.7 m. Pop 2000… https://t.co/2Pci77ZpEZ

Light & sour v. heavy & sweet – know your oil with the help of fabulous infographic from @TheEconomist… https://t.co/7gOhmnRkFP

“creditor imperialism”? China snaps up another port – Hambantota – heightening Sino-Indian rivalry for influence in… https://t.co/qACrCQBxLC

Any longer than 500 m and steel cables that operate high speed elevators are likely to snap under their own weight.… https://t.co/JJbKbobLog

“The loaf” – disobedient inmates in US prisons are punished with “nutraloaf” meals so unpalatable they are a civil… https://t.co/GofNyTueLJ

"Hey, did you do the refugee experience yet?" "No, we were going to limo over after we pig out at the caviar buffet" https://t.co/1khV91BdCj

Oklahoma, Kansas, Arizona, Wisconsin and North Carolina cut income tax whilst slashing school funding… https://t.co/65wQXNf0ab

Hollowing out sovereignty? AfD in Bundestag refuses to join rest of German parties in celebrating the Elysee Treaty… https://t.co/G4QLO6YFAr

In US in 2012 8 % of young people whose parents had less than high school ed were in College v. 58% of those whose…

The thing to worry about may be less the shutdown than the debt ceiling which was the driver of crisis in 2011 and… https://t.co/k7ERsNoNVG

Whilst Schulz got majority in SPD’s meeting a majority of Germans at large and a large majority of young people opp… https://t.co/sb2ogvgXc9

@PhilipPlickert @faznet thank you!