ADAM TOOZE

The Sickness of Reason (2003). Robert Longo's charcoal drawings of nuclear explosions Untitled (Hercules) https://t.co/PRzvtOClHg

Robert Longo Untitled (Destroyed Head of Lamassu, Nineveh), 2016. Charcoal on mounted paper 88 1/2 x 140 in https://t.co/rvafc2YxYC

Sales of academic books plunging, but downloads prove they have very large readership. Something has to give! https://t.co/7EGUbZfO1a

Of all books submitted to UK’s 2014 REF exercise, only c. 50 % achieved a single retail sale in 2008-2014 – RIP UPs! https://t.co/7EGUbZfO1a

52nd African Develop. Bank meet … in India … in Modi’s Gujarat. Launches with Japan the Asia Africa Growth Corrido… https://t.co/X0lXFYgGWV

Patriotic Tourism: Philippines, China and Malaysia all compete to develop Parcel and Spratley islands for tourism… https://t.co/U9iw4yWipX

@HelenHet20 We tend to assume that “knaveproof” systems constrain principally the left (which they do). But they ha… https://t.co/CxpfMYE1Tm

Precisely! Ditto the Republican hostage taking. Ditto the unrelenting pressure on Syriza. "Autonomy of the politica… https://t.co/oeMcnIeYgq

Shall we write something about it?

China’s fiscal apparatus is surprisingly weak. Out of population of 1.388 bn only c. 26 m pay income tax… https://t.co/8eTuoyJC8P

Completely agree. 2011 and 2013 in Congress & the all out siege of Syriza in 2015 are only possible because of fire… https://t.co/NcDIuw7VBi

Deutschland hat die Chance zusammen mit Frankreich die EWU zu erneuern. Wird dies genutzt? https://t.co/Ln0x3Te0os

South Korean head of Asian Infrastructure Inv Bank seeks to distance bank from Beijing. Not vehicle for OBOR!… https://t.co/sq9ie2yuBU

Reviving Indo-European links in … the Baltic. Not a headline you ever expected. By way of Sanskrit no less!… https://t.co/lGJrTcbNAR

How 19th c Egypt industrialized: remarkable praise for Muhammad Ali’s early 1800s econ development program… https://t.co/H8pqnyACLH

Facing imminent famine in Somalia, UN is scrambling to protect livestock assets for future rebuild… https://t.co/PjQ61PFDLw

As house prices recover # with neg equity falls to 3.2 m from 12.1 m in 2011. In real terms prices still 16 % down.…

The more educated are more vulnerable to motivated reasoning: strategic ignorance, reality denial & self-signaling https://t.co/kw7EK2TpV6

Fascinating on how $bns remittances frm Bangladesh’s 8m expats flow into hundi system & informal import financing… https://t.co/9zWULAuygK

Tech leads push in clean power-purchase deals. But 10 % of costs of beer are electric. Ask for a sustainable pint!… https://t.co/pCFds56KVK

“Life’s hard on the LME rollercoaster if you are supporting a family” How China's overcapacity hits US workers… https://t.co/7hdUVdSnJA

Excellent from Fed’s Kashkari on why evidence of lowflation ought to trump misplaced 1960s faith in Phillips curve… https://t.co/OJw8YwMBRx

The IMF is back in Africa: 19 sub-Saharan countries have entered into programs since squeeze on EM began in 2013… https://t.co/o3A0v6xog2

Break up Amazon: Hard-hitting @rooseveltinst post on implications of Amazon’s purchase of Wholefoods grocery chain… https://t.co/ehm7jNauTV

Recovery of average house prices in the US since crisis masks huge regional disparities. Only 1/3 are back to peak… https://t.co/PHxEum22fH

How Honecker&Kohl got along: regional princes with black/white ideologies. Interesting GDR perspective… https://t.co/IOASOQdCEW

Furious commentary on latest round of extend&pretend in Greece by @yanisvaroufakis 2 % Primary surplus until 2060!… https://t.co/CAVP7B7Zl2

"we can't accept threat of illegal & extraterritorial sanctions against Euro fims”=Ger response to USv.Rus sanction… https://t.co/cdLgYQeS0p

“History is war.” interesting review by Darnton of Boucheron et al’s controversial Histoire Mondiale de la France… https://t.co/ILVKQ2nuWR

Heavy-Hitting case against Fed rationale for recent rate increase from @LHSummers 2 % is symmetrical target!… https://t.co/imjqn8kRIJ