#Globalization

Quinn Slobodian

zeithistoriker

Who killed Bretton Woods? Historians have analyzed the economists around Nixon that pushed for the decision to float the US dollar in 1971. In our new Open Access @VersoBooks book,

Andrew Small

ajwsmall

I am slightly bemused that this article (not all of which I agree with) has elicited a wave of “actually, Brexit was good for the UK’s China policy, it has

Ayush Sharma

ayushswrites

Peter Thiel's contrarian worldview of the future. (Thread) In the spring of 2004, Peter Thiel organized and funded a six-day conference with eight scholars to discuss and explore the philosophy

Liam Denning

liamdenning

Oil bulls hope Saudi Arabia will save the world. But who's going to save Saudi Arabia's world? #OOTT (1/9) Saudi, like any big oil exporter, is suffering right now.

Fahad Desmukh

desmukh

Youtube Anthropology & the Globalisation of Muharram [A long thread]1/ As it is Muharram, I wanted to share one of my ongoing personal projects: a map of YouTube videos of

Christian Christensen

ChrChristensen

1) When people outside the US see images like this, they need to understand the depths to which the "armed individualist" is etched into US popular/political culture. I wrote that

Jack Murphy 🇺🇸 ⚔️

jackmurphylive

Labor force participation rate for men:This chart should make your eyes pop.Look at the downward trend over time and then look closely at what happened in 2008-2010.Forget about the unemployment

Pari પરી परी پری పరీ

parzaneh

Thread#Ramadhan vs #Ramazan controversy every year during Ramadhan is v uninteresting for someone who NEVER LEARNT #Urdu and it’s spoken language. W GLOBALISATION, I learn to say #Schedule

geoffrey gertz

geoffreygertz

Interesting analysis of the hardening UK position on China. One point it suggests – and where I’m changing my own mind – is that in long run COVID seems likely

Walter D. Greason

WorldProfessor

I need you to tell your stories today. /1 #Thread #Ourstory An attorney used @KhalilGMuhammad's phrase, Criminalization of Blackness, to describe the weight Black people carry in this country. /2

Prof Peter Hotez MD PhD

PeterHotez

1/5 thread, it's truly terrifying how the American "health freedom" #antivax anti-science movement has become a global phenonmenonhttps://www.theguardian.com/world/2020/aug/29/berlin-braces-for-anti-coronavirus-protest-against

Deplorable Pepe

CWorld1979

Buckle up fam, Pepe Thread time. 1. I'm going to be candid, I don't know just how lethal the coronavirus is going to wind up being. I've given both sides

manasataramgini

blog_supplement

Since many people keep asking me to comment on the opinions expressed by Chellaney and Carlson and a chIna paper on the SARS-CoV-2 virus here are some comments: the essence

LTC (R) Jim Hickman

Jim_Hickman13

@RepMattGaetz @GOPLeader @Jim_Jordan @DonaldJTrumpJr @GregRubini @QBlueSkyQ @Bluepopcorn8 @EpochTimes I know LTC Alex Vindman from a Combined US-Russian exercise called Atlas Vision 12 in Grafenwoher, GE. He worked w/the Russian Embassy

tedward b wang 5'2'' 52 IQ

TedwardWang

haven't done a book thread in a whileObservations concerning the Increase of Mankind, Peopling of Countries, & etc. By Benjamin Franklin Even in the 18th century anyone studying it noticed

Luis Baldomero-Quintana

luisbq_

Can large reductions in trade costs break the path dependence of the location of economic activity? Can a large reduction in trade costs promote economic development? @SebEllingsen JMP uses a