ADAM TOOZE

Excellent corrective by Prof Daddis of Chapman on excessive authority granted to generals in US strategic discourse… https://t.co/KtQEs95gQV

@adam_tooze Also in English Public spending about 57% of GDP in🇫🇷 compared with 44% in🇩🇪 in 2015 (≠ of 5 pp btw 96-… https://t.co/66lfCgxUNy

peak or plateau? https://t.co/AR0mfYqqQu

Selective austerity: Osborne’s budgets protected NHS/pensions whilst hitting working families hard… https://t.co/wepk6jQBSt

Including what were once the investment banks, total bank profits of top 10 in US are back to pre-crisis levels… https://t.co/UI2CjMwjtr

Austerity squeeze in UK driven by non-discretionary spend & protecting NHS within static overall budget —> rest hit… https://t.co/ezKHcjUFqm

@adam_tooze Better than having sociality explained by hobbesian state which is material and concrete?

@postdiscipline plus a dematerialized, abstract conception of what holds people and things together.

@postdiscipline sure but im still worried about the translation of care into glue!

At what point in the process of sociological abstraction did the multiform activity of work and works become "glue"? https://t.co/5Eq9DxvQ2O

“If man has been hit by truck, you do not restore him to health by reversing truck.” on asymmetry of econ policies… https://t.co/SHA27dPFIj

@oscemun @M_C_Klein sorry will fix

@adam_tooze Also in English: The difference in public spending in France and Germany @MAouriri #BdFeco https://t.co/Q5PKQEG1sp

Black-white wealth disparity in US is dramatic and recent research confirms its deep historical roots @Noahpinion… https://t.co/DA66Z4KdXA

Level of pension pushes French costs up v. Germany which also benefits from economic conditions… https://t.co/ftkvf3NXMQ

Multiple vectors of inequality produce stark gap in black-white median household income in US @Noahpinion powerful!… https://t.co/2ve8cfWevo

What drives the gap in public spending between France and Germany is “social protection” https://t.co/Rl20JVuJE8 h/… https://t.co/Q206K9bFSP

Very sorry for quality. It's Union Wharf Lower Dock, East London and emphasises the size of a ships bowsprit. https://t.co/6m6kP16nEV

Made by History also revisits Vietnam & explains that the generals can’t save us, & we shouldn’t want them to: https://t.co/OkP8U21KXP

That colour spectrum.Sublime. https://t.co/MPPBfb5QIW

Excellent on why 2008 & aftermath really are different, ironically an argument based on Reinhart/Rogoff2014… https://t.co/6oPizN7HdE

'Unborn Cities', Kai Caemmerer's series documenting the ghost cities of China https://t.co/crV2fERKIk… https://t.co/FI1odKFlV5

CBO long-range forecasts failed o anticipate productivity surge of 1990s AND after-effects of 2008 h/t @M_C_Klein… https://t.co/hyUf8Yj0qm

Structural break or demand failure? Excellent on difficulty of long-run growth forecasting in real time from… https://t.co/kr7wlXkVBQ

Cohn to Fed? "that's an escape path for him .. means that Goldman has given up Trump administration” @pdacosta… https://t.co/amTg1kfulE

Amazing image from @berghahnbooks https://t.co/5iNnRxqgfq

Really good Scott Sumner critique of the Economist on Germany's trade surplus https://t.co/HU4z2nqouv

Public property as % nat inc has held steady in China since 1978 whilst private wealth surged.… https://t.co/7IiYidNOas