Adam Tooze

Brave New World | Herman Mark Schwartz A third industrial divide?

thanks @adamtooze.bsky.social for the shout out in
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to this, which got lost in the holiday 2024 season
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Chartbook 420 Is "decline" really Europe's problem. Or is Europe the more agreeable downleg of a K-shaped OECD? Is Europe in decline? 2025 was certainly a rough year. Europe is divided and struggling to concert its position both on financial support for Ukraine and trade policy (Mercosur). On trade policy and e...

Is "decline" really Europe's problem. Or is Europe the more agreeable downleg of a K-shaped OECD?
Latest chartbook just dropped.
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America has identified its greatest enemy: Western Europe Trump's new National Security Strategy: what if groypers cosplayed George Kennan?

Trump's new National Security Strategy: what if groypers cosplayed George Kennan?
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When he's right he's right
Trump: "We have to find another name for the NFL. This is football, we call it soccer here in the USA but it is really football. It doesn't make sense that we call it soccer."

Murderers Among Us: Owen Hatherley Picks Over the ‘Rubble Films’ of Post-War East Germany | The Quietus At least twice, Germany has had among the most influential and important mainstream film industries in the world. First, famously, between 1919 and 1933, German directors, in what was called, not alwa...

"The ‘rubble films’ were intended to help make sure none of that could ever happen again, and in that, they are among the many intriguing failures of twentieth century culture." - Owen Hatherley

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Commissariat au Plan, INSEE : après les guerres, de nouveaux lieux pour produire le savoir économique x

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Muriel Dal-Pont évoque l'évolution de l'expertise économique en France dans Entendez-vous l'éco.

@StateDept intends to designate Cartel de los Soles as a Foreign Terrorist Organization (FTO). Headed by the illegitimate Nicolás Maduro, the group has corrupted the institutions of government in Venezuela and is responsible for terrorist violence conducted by and with other designated FTOs as well as for trafficking drugs into the United States and Europe.

A potential prelude to military action against Venezuela—even though the FTO designation as such confers no authority to use force.

(And this supposed cartel may not even exist.)

A regime change campaign in the guise of counterterrorism.

Alice Wong (activist) - Wikipedia

If you want to learn more about Alice Wong and her work, you can find many links on her profile, @sfdirewolf.bsky.social, or check out disabilityvisibilityproject.com, or her Wikipedia page.

Your library may also have her books, including audio/ebook editions (@multcolib.bsky.social does).

HOLY BIBLE Holy Bible © @Holy_Bible1 Follow Matthew 18:19 MATTHEW 18:19 "He prayed for her, she prayed for him and God smiled knowing that their names are already written next to each other."

AI slop now making up saccharine Bible verses that do not exist

Der konservative Anti-Mamdani-Diskurs ist einer der krassesten Fälle von Islamophobie, die ich erlebt habe. Ein Politiker wird nur aufgrund seiner Herkunft immer wieder als Islamist dargestellt, obwohl er ganz andere Ansichten vertritt.

Hi all, please spread the word and we hope everyone can make good use of this new data drop: cmfdata.org

The full surviving establishment-level Census of Manufactures manuscripts and digitized data from 1850, 1860, 1870, and 1880!

The absolutely brilliant pitch perfect troll of getting targeted by your opponent with virulent Islamophobia and then immediately releasing an ad in all Arabic.

After the Ballot: New York, Socialism, and the City’s Changing Identity · Luma Four days after New York’s mayoral election, we’ll gather for an evening of conversation, reflection, and cross-cultural dialogue. This discussion will explore…

After the NYC Ballot: an evening of conversation, reflection, and cross-cultural dialogue with noted podcasters Hua Sirui and Wang Qing and Jack Gross of Phenomenal World.
Date & Time: Saturday, November 8, 2025 · 6:30–8:30pm luma.com/aq46awdv

"Dress for the job you want, not the job you have"

Grösster Gläubiger der USA: Spannender Substack von Vítor Constâncio (@VMRConstancio) zu den 1,4 Bio. $ Anleihenbeständen des US-Staates, die von Hedgefonds – bisher von der Fed unentdeckt – auf den Cayman-Inseln gehalten werden... vconstancio.substack.com/p/tic-surpri...

so many people tweeting "how are 40 million Americans on food stamps"

the supplemental poverty rate is ~12% and there are ~350 million people here, do the math

why does nobody google even the most basic facts about reality man

With all due respect, when did the US ever
"lead the charge" on confronting climate change, even rhetorically, let alone in terms of actual energy policy?

EXTRAORDINARY HEAT IN OCEANIA
Records smashed everywhere.
35.8 Surprise Island
NEW CALEDONIA HOTTEST OCTOBER DAY EVER

Minimum 27.6 Tanjungpinang INDONESIA
HOTTEST NIGHT EVER

Records are falling from Melanesia to Emirates ALLOVER ASIA. (MIN >27 in Japan !)
Unprecedented

NYC Lecture: Adam Tooze on Electrostates, Petrostates & the New Cold War The 2025 LRB Autumn Lecture: a new annual lecture in New York

On Monday, @adamtooze.bsky.social will give the inaugural 𝘓𝘙𝘉 Autumn Lecture at the New School in New York, on the subject of ‘Electrostates, Petrostates and the New Cold War’.

Tickets here:

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Garbage’s Shirley Manson Speaks Out Against Music Industry Economics: “This Is An Alarm Call” Just before they kicked off their current run of dates, the ’90s alt-rock greats Garbage announced that it would be their final North American headline tour. When the band played at Denver’s Mission B...

“Average musician makes $12 a month on Spotify. The fact that they are not even able to sell a record and it’s taken from them by rich motherfuckers on streaming platforms who get paid royally by record labels,Ticketmaster, merch companies. They’re all fucking getting paid, except for the musician.”

I was a little fired up at Frankfurt ;)

Sometimes, as a public service, I read a book so you don't have to...

... this is one of those times
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This is truly an amazing opportunity.

Screenshot of this document: https://www.ias.edu/sites/default/files/SSS%20Call%20for%20Applications%202026-27%20.pdf

Screenshot of this document: https://www.ias.edu/sites/default/files/SSS%20Call%20for%20Applications%202026-27%20.pdf

Some news: In 2026-27, I'll be visiting professor at the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton, leading the theme seminar on

‘𝘌𝘮𝘦𝘳𝘨𝘪𝘯𝘨 𝘧𝘰𝘳𝘤𝘦𝘴 𝘪𝘯 𝘨𝘭𝘰𝘣𝘢𝘭 𝘱𝘰𝘭𝘪𝘵𝘪𝘤𝘢𝘭 𝘦𝘤𝘰𝘯𝘰𝘮𝘺‘

There's no place quite like the IAS to think, together, about big questions. Please share—applications are open 𝚗̲̲𝚘̲̲𝚠̲.

YouTube video by Urban Future Flow Social Life of Small Urban Spaces 1980 William H

The Social Life of Small Urban Spaces. 1980, William H. Whyte. HT @adamtooze.bsky.social

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Surplus auf der Frankfurter Buchmesse: Zur Primetime auf der Centre Stage diskutieren wir über die Ökonomie der Zukunft! Mit @adamtooze.bsky.social @lukasscholle.bsky.social und @kristinlangen.bsky.social

Alle Informationen: www.surplusmagazin.de/surplus-auf-...

Chartbook 407: Polycrisis revisited: Are we beyond Neoliberal Order Breakdown Syndrome? Back in 2022 I coined the phrase polycrisis as one with which to describe the conjuncture.

“After all, crises have two possible endings. In one, the patient recovers. In the other, the patient is dead.”

Polycrisis revisited: Are we beyond Neoliberal Order Breakdown Syndrome? - @adamtooze.bsky.social
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Die Vorfreude auf die Buchmesse in Frankfurt steigt gleich nochmal an! @surplusmagazin.bsky.social @adamtooze.bsky.social

Chartbook 413 The future of the world economy beyond globalization - or, thinking with soup. This year marks the 80th anniversary of 1945.

Love this!
“Why not try imagining the future shape of the world economy neither as a neat assemblage of robust bricks, nor as a mesh of interlocking balance sheets, but as something more akin to a lumpy potage, or a noodle and dumpling soup.” @adamtooze.bsky.social