Saied as President of Tunisia faces an immediate challenge in managing Tunisia’s relationship with the IMF. The government had been negotiating a much-needed loan from the fund, which may now think twice about making any commitment. economist.com/middle-east-an… https://t.co/qFgq8Q0stR
(Super-)Cannes may be popular with the movie stars, but why are France’s Provence and the Riviera so right-wing? This has sinister J.G.Ballard vibes. Love the illustration by Klawe Rzeczy! https://t.co/KW7RDLz5Da https://t.co/Texn2PbnQd
Clichés about Afghanistan as graveyard of empires abound. 1978-2021 flattened to endless war. But, as Chartbook #29 shows this is VERY misleading. Soviet-Afghan war is the Urtrauma = Ostfront-style shock. Violence of era of US intervention quite different. adamtooze.substack.com/p/adam-toozes-… https://t.co/IK7XNB8GTm
"It was cheaper to replace workers who died with new ones than to keep them healthy. In 1925 one doctor estimated nearly a quarter of new workers would not survive a year." @daughton_p new book on French Congo-Océan Railway sounds like essential reading economist.com/books-and-arts… https://t.co/g5ux7r1IHs
RT @TheresaAFallon: "For all the humiliations China suffered in the 19th century, it was after 1945 that the gap between China and the econ…
"America was never going to solve all Afghanistan’s problems, but to leave the country back at square one is a sobering failure.” economist.com/leaders/2021/0… @TheEconomist leader pairs well with Chartbook #29 on economic legacy of 20-year intervention. adamtooze.substack.com/p/adam-toozes-… https://t.co/J8nVjzqH24
@KenVinc07064858 @Noahpinion What is the evidence for that? Mortality data show that overwhelmingly more damage was done in Soviet-Afghan war than in everything else that followed. Is the difference that fighting extended to Kabul in 1990s?
Afghanistan in which the Taliban seized power in late 1990s was reeling from the savage violence of the war v. Soviets. The Taliban seem to be on cusp of power again, but Afghanistan has profoundly changed. Check out Chartbook Newsletter #29. adamtooze.substack.com/p/adam-toozes-… https://t.co/OdaYq4VW8w
For twenty years, the USA and its allies sought to shape a new order in Afghanistan. Now they are on their way out. What kind of economy do they leave behind? Chartbook Newsletter #29 takes stock. Sign up here: adamtooze.substack.com/p/adam-toozes-… https://t.co/CbghHDHp9k
RT @ummodern: Putting the final touches on a paper involves moving a passage between two different sections multiple times only to put it b…
Marc Flandreau – he of the brilliant historical work on the gold standard and international lending before 1914 – is working on a manuscript on David Ricardo and financial algorithms! If that doesn’t set fin twitter alight, I dont know what will. 🙂 @TheStalwart @M_C_Klein twitter.com/flandreaumarc/…
As Japanese-American Isamu Noguchi wrote in an unpublished essay in 1942, with America and Japan at war, “To be hybrid anticipates the future.” Or at least we though it did. economist.com/books-and-arts… https://t.co/vD3Z9voNfP
When you dig into the data, the scale of destruction during the Afghan-Soviet war in the 1980s is staggering. Chartbook #29 on Afghanistan’s economy on the point of America’s departure. adamtooze.substack.com/p/adam-toozes-… https://t.co/UFtJHj3PX0
The long-run impact of the Inca road on Peruvian economic development. Fascinating work by @anapaufranco @SFGaliani @pablo_lavado Featured in @TheEconomist economist.com/graphic-detail… https://t.co/dtXIJeeR3C
“Oceanic”. I’ll take that as a recommendation for the video featured in Chartbook Video #2. Thank you @ToriinDC Sign up for more here: adamtooze.substack.com/s/chartbook-vi… twitter.com/ToriinDC/statu…
Before China launched its One Belt Road in 2013, in 2011 CENTCOM and Clinton at State pushed a New Silk Road conception as their vision for Afghanistan post-surge. A first retrospective on the US intervention. Sign up for Chartbook #29 here: adamtooze.substack.com/p/adam-toozes-… https://t.co/gRrJ17BfxI
As America exits Afghanistan, what kind of economy do 20 years of Western intervention leave behind? Chartbook #29 on an economy that has failed to launch. Sign up here: adamtooze.substack.com/p/adam-toozes-… https://t.co/flWEGYb5CY
RT @PP_Rubens: 3/3 Lemon peel and carpet as only Willem Kalf could do them. Also sublime. https://t.co/BxRo1Yr57f
Chartbook #29 just dropped. Afghanistan’s economy on the eve of America’s exit. Hard to fathom that its been 20 years. adamtooze.substack.com/p/adam-toozes-… https://t.co/eN27ZWODz7
Over 10 million people likely died in Africas wars btw Sudan in 1960s and DRC in 1990s. Vast majority of them civilians. web.archive.org/web/2014100617… https://t.co/UrYNQ3hUo7
RT @Jderbyshire: Booker Little died in 1961 at the age of 23. This album, recorded the year before, and on which Little is abetted by Tommy…
RT @yannick___m: I didn't think I was possible to by hyped for a book 8 years in the future, but I just learned @adam_tooze is planning a a…
Excited to find a bunch of Kissinger material straight from the Yale archive. This Bismarck essay from 1968 is a classic. findit.library.yale.edu/images_layout/… For more on German unification check out Chartbook Video #1 a lecture for the 150th anniversary. adamtooze.substack.com/p/chartbook-vi… https://t.co/lNbJDO3e8j
RT @emilyctamkin: Do you like thinking about -history? -geopolitics? -tackling the climate crisis? -China? -neoliberalism? Of course you d…
Exxon recently pitched a scheme to capture and store CO2 emitted by industrial facilities around Houston Ship Channel that it said could attract $100bn in investment (although it said such a scheme would need a carbon price of around $100 a tonne to work). ft.com/content/4b45ac… https://t.co/2r3mZ2X64D
Piece of the puzzle? Carbon capture projects are taking off across the US. ft.com/content/4b45ac… https://t.co/FFTaBKbD0w
"at least 1,900 U.S. military firearms were lost or stolen during the 2010s” h/t @SoberLook apnews.com/article/govern… https://t.co/13BDp0dgK7
Globalization plateaued a decade ago: The ratio of global trade-to-manufacturing output has been flat for over a decade. @SoberLook thedailyshot.com/2021/07/29/the… https://t.co/qtp98uU4Oq
The household deleveraging process in peripheral European economies has ended. thedailyshot.com/2021/07/29/the… https://t.co/c8akK3OdTG
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