ADAM TOOZE

Growing consensus that failure of US to devise family friendly tax, leave & childcare is major limit to growth.… https://t.co/XjwYX5EwHx

Investment normally turns down in a recession. What made 2008-2009 so bad was the plunge in private consumption… https://t.co/O2LcmYwsXk

Tough alignment: Good on deadlock of economic and geopolitical interests in Sino-Russian collaboration since 2013… https://t.co/Mt7e2XpjII

The 2009-2010 real estate surge in China was mind boggling: 80% yoy growth in home sales winter 2009-2010… https://t.co/V6z7apZ0ot

Midnight’s child 2017: Baby named after GST – India’s new nationwide tax – in Rajasthan at 12.01 am 1 July 2017… https://t.co/L0xLREESdX

Official price increase in Syria since 2010 is %500+, v. $ 90% down —> new large denomination bank notes featuring… https://t.co/4OpWS0fhsC

@stephenjstedman they handle that in a separate chart with their “breadth” rather than “depth” concept. going to do… https://t.co/Baja6KjE82

The other Asian financial crisis: India’s June 1991 financial crisis remembered https://t.co/26wMwvyveD… https://t.co/vfbD43ZHOV

Frederick Douglass July 1852: "We have to do with the past only as we can make it useful to the present and to the… https://t.co/4B06AWz4PM

Ranked by cross-border flows of goods, services, capital, people, info, US places 100/140 in globalization league… https://t.co/6SimGhsWI5

One of problems with “globalization” discourse in US politics is that population massively overestimates its impact… https://t.co/p3obvmJQkH

Inequality machine: commodity subsidies in the US disburse $bns to largest farmers: top 3 % = 90k farms get 47%… https://t.co/zIE7HR3Tde

US ag exports to China have surged. One more reason a trade war would be terrible for a Republican President.… https://t.co/5mNrtZ5SwW

As video games become complex, endless, team-based i.e more like rewarding jobs —> substitute more for actual work… https://t.co/wj8CUWEEWY

Interesting on business interests that backed Brexit. As in US ‘regulation”&“environmental protection” bulk large.… https://t.co/Rg60TOy2Dk

"Hitler trusted us, why won’t you?” a somewhat rushed book on the VW/Bosch scandal. Not read but looks interesting!… https://t.co/HSZObuW3kQ

UN "we are facing the largest humanitarian crisis since the creation of the United Nations [in 1945”… https://t.co/t7QUl7TTOG

Computer games have major impact on changing time use amongst American men in their 20s since 2004… https://t.co/QEUlsWsRJX

35 m cattle slaughtered pa in US in 60 plants. Tyson, Cargill, JBS USA, National Beef control 80 % @M_C_Klein… https://t.co/joqJjaujsk

Although poverty rates higher in Dem districts, more poor people live in Rep districts and number is rising… https://t.co/A4aCEKMPJF

@delong @samuelmoyn and for efficiently pointing anyone who cares to follow to large amounts of great information!… https://t.co/0yWphZAuY7

A+ story on the inner workings of the Trump admin's search for Fed board members. https://t.co/wUGYMdRxeR via @WSJ

Something weirdly “end of history” about this … https://t.co/GeS8a28TGi