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Adam Tooze

Economic data, images, stories that matter from Adam Tooze. More organized and coherent than twitter. More freewheeling than what you might read from me in FT, Guardian, Foreign Policy, LRB, SocialEurope etc.

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Chartbook #131 Calibrating the polycrisis - with the help of the Bank of International Settlements
26 Jun 2022 • 58 4
Subscribe now The polycrisis we are in the midst of, is fast-moving, complex, heterogeneous, interconnected, explosive. One comfort, at least intellectually, is that we are in it together. If you are ...
Chartbook #130 Defining polycrisis - from crisis pictures to the crisis matrix.
24 Jun 2022 • 66 19
Subscribe now In Chartbook #73, back on January 21st this year, I proposed Krisenbilder - crisis pictures - as a way of making sense of what then looked like a complicated pattern of stresses around t...
Top Links #81: The Fourth Estate, Stagflation & Wealth Destruction
22 Jun 2022 • 14 0
Thank you for reading Chartbook Newsletter. The Fourth Estate (Italian: Il quarto stato) is an oil painting by Giuseppe Pellizza da Volpedo, originally titled The Path of Workers and made between 1898...
Chartbook #129 Love Actually, the Columbia MA Commencement 2022 and the global future.
19 Jun 2022 • 51 0
While sorting through a pile of clothes preparing for a summer trip, I came across the folded text of the Columbia MA Commencement speech that I had the privilege of giving this year. It brought back ...
Top Links #80 Waterloo, Kale Marx and Branko Milanović revisiting the Elephant
18 Jun 2022 • 10 2
Thank you for reading Chartbook. This post is public so feel free to share it Share Thank you for your support of the newsletter. Since it is the anniversary of the battle of Waterloo, we start with t...
Top Links #79: Dürer's nightmare, Aggregate Demand and Berlin's Population
15 Jun 2022 • 15 4
Albrecht Dürer’s nightmare drawing of 1525. Source: Wikipedia Thank you for reading Chartbook newsletter. Your support is much appreciated. Why not share Chartbook with a friend? Share Aggregate Deman...
Chartbook #128: Mission command - NATO's Strangelove vision of freedom enacted on the Ukraine battlefield
12 Jun 2022 • 85 46
Russian forces attempted to cross the Siverskyi Donets river in eastern Ukraine this month using a pontoon bridge, but their tanks and armoured vehicles were picked off by Ukrainian artillery. So they...
Top Links #78 Keynes, Blimp hangers & Russian trade
10 Jun 2022 • 11 2
Thank you for supporting Chartbook. John Maynard Keynes, #BOTD1883. Portrait by Duncan Grant, 1917. Share Russian imports Interesting discussion by Martin Sandbu of Matt Klein’s excellent piece at Ove...
Chartbook 127 - The World Bank's global take on the 1970s, stagflation and debt crises.
09 Jun 2022 • 41 4
Subscribe now This week the World Bank announced that it is slashing its forecast for 2022 global growth to 2.9%, down from 5.7% in 2021. This is the sharpest deceleration in a post-recession recovery...
Chartbook #126: For the anniversary of D-Day - Blitzkrieg manquée? Or, a new mode of "firepower war"?
06 Jun 2022 • 88 14
Subscribe now The successful Allied landings on the beaches of Normandy on 6 June 1944 stand as one of the defining events of mid twentieth-century history. D-Day ranks alongside the Marshall Plan, or...
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