ADAM TOOZE

“A budget, equipment, jet fighters and hovercraft, don’t make an army. Indeed, sometimes armaments impede the creat… https://t.co/qLSii3RHa7

Filed §1983 civil rights complaint with federal court in Birmingham, Alabama, to stop Doyle Hamm's lethal injection… https://t.co/jRcpS6gxj8

Jihadis on speed: iSIS issued its standard Chinese-made light machine guns with pouches of amphetamines… https://t.co/AuXDFVapLX

Shock of the old: 60 % of weapons used by ISIS in Syrian civil war were manufactured 1960-1989 @DEHEdgerton this is… https://t.co/wJNE9KFtzg

Casting bombs for ISIS’s “improvised” 119.5 mm mortars that are fashioned out of steel piping. Fascinating report o… https://t.co/ZKsXK2GGnr

Fact that US and Russian wealth inequality is neck and neck is one of most shocking facts confirmed by… https://t.co/YhIFCqrWlq

"If we treat a plutocracy as a democracy, democracy dies. … It is also a mistake to see this plutocracy as designed… https://t.co/GijiuELi0U

“In taking this work forward we need to do some real soul searching,” – Azevêdo sobering conclusion to a disappoint… https://t.co/W9tUwXBW4p

Etienne Balibar won the Hannah Arendt Prize in Political Thought, given by the city of Bremen. He sees that we must… https://t.co/VEqGFa8aLi

If these numbers are plausible they hardly suggest that the single market is vital to economic welfare of its membe… https://t.co/a8WteXv8wf

The rip-roaring story of the FBME banking network and its connections to Russian power and money – another stocking… https://t.co/ola97iaisL

Trump is not the only threat to trade liberalization: The EU single market is fraying from within. Great piece by… https://t.co/qrp5kp109J

How long can we outrun diminishing returns? Yield growth v. research effort for key agricultural crops… https://t.co/YskQ8KOjom

From the Manhattan project to costing Death Stars … if this isn’t xmas reading I don’t know what is @DuncanWeldon… https://t.co/bmPt6CQgy9

The window for constructive European institution-building is closing and Juncker’s desperate efforts at agenda sett… https://t.co/YGWh7aBYvU

@BuddyYakov thank you @BuddyYakov this is fascinating! I was implicitly arguing this but will now make the connecti… https://t.co/VlHGh0WRd6

We aint in Kansas any more … and we aint going back there any time soon! Fascinating from @M_C_Klein on how a futur… https://t.co/WXcz64ZXOg

Is a rule based global trading system likely to survive in a world dominated by three trading blocs? Citing… https://t.co/wlSmx0Qv6T

As far as I'm concerned productivity is a miracle …says bank economist. If true or thought to be true it puts a spa… https://t.co/xV2x76jHQK

Good piece by @DeutscheWelle on politics of the Nanjing massacre anniversary commemorated today in China… https://t.co/vmP6FM6jRP

Fascinating on the contested history of “traditional” square dancing and Henry Ford’s fear that Jazz was a Jewish c… https://t.co/lc6bPJqw5Q

9 years on we are back to the developed world unemployment level of the spring of 2008 according to @ILO… https://t.co/fy3jS3P291

Is banking union enough? @rodrikdani finds himself in agreement with Schaeuble & @yanisvaroufakis who demand fiscal… https://t.co/B7n7YR593S

Network effects: Explosion at Austrian Gas Import hub Baumgarten puts 1/3 of Italian gas supply in jeopardy!… https://t.co/J9YU8x8IUv

The “shelby mafia” and the gutting of US financial regulation. Interesting piece from @WSJ on the network of Senate… https://t.co/2sqptFJjo4

Wobbly relationship: 80 % of Germans see trans-Atlantic relationship founded on economics and values v. 50 % americ… https://t.co/orLHcwfX2O

Talking the Trump admin back off the ledge: Japan and EU use WTO to corral the US into joint action on Chinese trad… https://t.co/JeQAmAZKLb

On the anniversary of October revolution Russians were far more positive about Stalin than Gorbachev… https://t.co/um826mz1e7

Keeping it to the continent: Strengthening cooperation with Macron and Putin is far more important to Germans than… https://t.co/yQrwbHgbdi