ADAM TOOZE

Elisha Otis demonstrates first elevator safety break. @TheEconomist xmas issue had extraordinary report on lifts in… https://t.co/JiBM90ND7o

Investing like a German: @faznet @PhilipPlickert report on ECB findings of eurozone household wealth which puts Ger… https://t.co/holYAqmk45

“The loaf” – disobedient inmates in US prisons are punished with “nutraloaf” meals so unpalatable they are a civil… https://t.co/JbgWhxPCh6

European fiscal apparatus of early modern period is largely a product of war. Fiscal exactions from Voigtländer&Vot… https://t.co/puCDVucepE

Europe's great plagues. Incidence data from Voigtländer and Voth Europe’s Gifts of Mars (2013) h/t @DuncanWeldon… https://t.co/rKcoh6m2sb

The growth of the French army, 1445-1750. Carefully reworked data from John Lynn’s fantastic Giant of the Grand Sie… https://t.co/EVC8ahhIOu

St Johannis Church in Magdeburg in 1954. Nine years, after attack by RAF, 9.38 pm to 10.17 pm, 16 January 1945 – th… https://t.co/p7OwfvAh6Z

Was it demography or institutional/technical factors that explain “Europe”’s divergence in early modern period? Voi… https://t.co/sIPOMCThTj

"China and Russia are now undermining the international order from within the system by exploiting its benefits whi… https://t.co/2LLFiA5FB6

Unearthing a mass grave from the climatic battle of Lützen 1632 that claimed life of Gustavus Adolphus… https://t.co/E22uTnl8F3

Donauwörth after it was hit by USAAF at 12.30 pm 11 April 1945 and again on 19 April. Town had been designated majo… https://t.co/EMy2QyMoxk

@adam_tooze This is a reply of sorts: https://t.co/v60tz2cir7

From local carnivalesque to global violence Herrfried Münkler on logics of escalation in German religious wars and… https://t.co/E2Xl7izEwX

Münckler announces that he won’t write book about WWII or 7 year war. “Let historians do that, who like stray dogs… https://t.co/kKo0SNLtu4

Tomb of General Tilly – the "monk in armor", destroyer of Protestant Magdeburg (1631), counterreformation Taliban,… https://t.co/YJ5SlVyDbJ

Muscling in on the Maldives. China signs free trade agreement on India’s doorstep. China also owns 70 % of Maldives… https://t.co/WNqDA2iLAY

"Inter-state strategic competition, not terrorism, is now the primary concern in U.S. national security.” Driving h… https://t.co/rbFzlMalv7

Infrastructure projects are now a larger % of investment in China than at height of the 2009 stimulus. h/t… https://t.co/Yd7Rhnks7T

Is Weidman shouting fire in a crowded theatre? Bundesbank research “suggests that migration from EU partially accou… https://t.co/lreYi4YtyD

There Is More Than One Opioid Crisis – grim but fascinating on the struggle to bring analytical precision to the dr… https://t.co/cwnuZTm7ht

Excellent from @alexandrascaggs on Apple’s redeployment of its $252 bn “cash” pile. Important to view apple as a hy… https://t.co/hNSw6Siyil

Prior to the crisis China was stashing its reserves as much in America’s mortgage GSEs as in Treasurys. In 2008 the… https://t.co/vk29AAKsY0

The world of financial repression, the world that World War II made. When 70 percent of US bank assets were funding… https://t.co/6q6ffxwrd6

Who sets terms in local labour markets across US? Fantastic paper by @joseazar @mioana @Econ_Marshall… https://t.co/11G6WExFof

For some time Europe with its giant current account surplus has been more significant as buyer of US long-term debt… https://t.co/TKMYcNokKo

China’s Impact on the U.S. Bond Market Gets Too Much Attention. And Europe's Too Little. Fantastic blogpost from… https://t.co/orLTigTo05

"Viewed in retrospect, ECB’s excessive reluctance to declare any bank failing in 2016 and early 2017 may have had s… https://t.co/pfEGnP3NHi

China’s SOE are beneficiaries of efforts to cut overcapacity reporting record profits and tax payments.… https://t.co/ddwdm8WTYV

OMG indeed! https://t.co/OMZ6w0H5Dw

If you read between the lines and wave aside the handwringing from business interests and fiscal conservatives, thi… https://t.co/G1UXcHDSLh

Forgetting and remembering an interview with Vietnamese novelist and memory politics campaigner Viet Thanh Nguyen… https://t.co/vkyY6qjmEc