ADAM TOOZE

Giovanni Botero’s The Reason of State (CUP). 1589 set out after Machiavelli to reconcile power and morality in a ne… https://t.co/YdjU4yS8my

Burgling @BrookingsInst Nixon: "I want it implemented on a thievery basis. Goddamn it, get in there and get those f… https://t.co/KiWUJHf6J3

Günther-Klöckner-Spahn will these be the CDU figures to replace Merkel? @JeremyCliffe lays out the succession optio… https://t.co/eW0koidT6U

1930s world travel involved a lot of hops! https://t.co/T3SWwRexCP

Where Germany is most pluralistic – Poll results for Berlin put all 6 main parties between 21 and 8 % https://t.co/NdcytyCjGK

In study commission by @BFP_Deutschland @kielinstitute concludes that none of measures usually discussed could sign… https://t.co/q5sF3TAJ5I

To cut Germany’s current account surplus to 6 % of GDP @kielinstitute estimates that Germany would need to increase… https://t.co/8KT0AYisDN

Germany powerless against its current account surplus? @kielinstitute plays sweet music for @Bundesfinanzmin Let th… https://t.co/fpocWPpVtk

Global borrowing in dollars was briefly stopped by the 2008 crisis but then resumed, unlike all other global fundin… https://t.co/P2i7g4MJL7

Dusting off the emergency powers: when the Fed took 13(3) off the shelf in 2008 it had been last used in the 1930s… https://t.co/oP5QBel0Dj

A new Monkey in the mirror problem for central banks: "one day (we may) be tempted to draft our monetary policy sta… https://t.co/J03498VGN1

"the power of governments has been shaped by statistics – and vice versa” Coeuré of ECB citing Alain Desrosieres!… https://t.co/h950DnIerG

Dagenham’s disadvantage: why productivity in multinationals in 1970s Britain lagged behind their counterparts in Ge… https://t.co/u60N821GAU

Everyone loves Doge memes https://t.co/FJZM9GiIuJ

By 1973 UK lab productivity lagged both that of Germany and US but of very different reasons. Latest from Nick Craf… https://t.co/c2JHBi6Fwo

The making of more or less polarized societies: UK/US invest in higher ed v. Germany and France investing in interm… https://t.co/M8VtQF5uZq

@tradercoach the answer may lie in difference between per hour worked and per capita

After the massive devaluation shock of 2008 South Korea has kept the won low —> chronic current account surplus… https://t.co/rQmRs87rJ0

Impatient Liberal Market Economy: Nick Crafts diagnoses British productivity weakness in the postwar decades… https://t.co/mWTYgtRxT4

Given blue collar wages in the $ 20 per week range, the prices on these items are really striking! https://t.co/6GGuygvmG6

@prchovanec The price on that beautiful tenchcoat is c. 2-3 weeks wages for a blue-collar worker at that point!

"when the United States is serious about something we put soldiers on it. We put money on it.” Lt Gen Ben Hodges co… https://t.co/rVfir7hFJY

One of most remarkable sections in Ken Burns Vietnam doc concerned spectacular “urbanization" in S Vietnam in 1960s… https://t.co/o7WVQcdKy1

How Uk gov advisors grossly underestimated the impact on uK labour markets of 2004 E Europe accession and freedom o… https://t.co/1KPu8qceFd

ABSOLUTELY fascinating inside take on the Cameron administration’s disastrous slide to Brexit from Ivan Rogers UK’s… https://t.co/1zPEKqa5FU

Finis Germania & the Schuldkult: @fromTGA offers excellent summary of the bizarre scandal around national conservat… https://t.co/3LhacOomso

E27 banks have been particularly aggressive in cutting their derivatives exposure to the UK since Brexit vote https://t.co/5WvYhEkVH1

War as a driver of urbanization – fighting and economic pull factors drove mass migration from Vietnamese countrysi… https://t.co/CTbDOF6jGA

Urbanization as counterrevolution: Sam Huntington on the lesson of Vietnam, Foreign Affairs 1968… https://t.co/FFgdW4VAVf

@postdiscipline It’s certainly “social theory in action”!