Adam Tooze
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Economic historian, Kathryn and Shelby Cullom Davis Professor of History at Columbia University, and author of Wages of Destruction, Crashed and Shutdown.…
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19 beliefs on korrents (opens korrents.com)
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Even at low incomes, today's fast-growing cities are not centres of disease and mass death as 19th-century European cities were, because modern medicine and basic public health let them keep growing (opens korrents.com)
“even at relatively low per capita incomes the emergent cities of the 21st century are not centers of diseases and mass death, as they would have been in Europe in the 19th century. Modern facilities of medicine and…”
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If dense agglomerations of people are incubators of change, the mistake in studying African urbanization is to measure its convergence to a predefined modernity instead of looking at how society is being reinvented (opens korrents.com)
“If it is true that dense agglomerations of people are incubators of innovation and change, the mistake is to focus on the degree of conformity with, or convergence to some predefined vision of modernity, rather than to…”
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Mapping a new development onto historical precedents may be reassuring, but it can also be deeply misleading (opens korrents.com)
“Such mental mappings may be reassuring, but they can also be deeply misleading”
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Even at low incomes, today's fast-growing cities are not centres of disease and mass death as 19th-century European cities were, because modern medicine and basic public health let them keep growing (opens korrents.com)
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3 recommendations on rcmnd (opens rcmnd.app)
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The Southern Tour (opens rcmnd.app)
“My second suggestion is uh is uh sorry is Jonathan Chhatwin's uh book the southern tour which is uh an extraordinary account of Deniaing's uh tour of southern China in 1992 in the moment when after the repression of…”
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Context Collapse (opens rcmnd.app)
“Um it's called Context Collapse. And it is literally a poem containing a history of poetry. So it is an extraordinary long- form poem in which he in a I was asking about it over drinks the other night. Why did he do…”
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Central Banking and Financialization: A Romanian Account of how Eastern Europe became Subprime (opens rcmnd.app)
“Folks really need to check out @DanielaGabor staggering book on 1990s: Central Banking and Financialization: A Romanian Account of how Eastern Europe became Subprime (Studies in Economic Transition) Mind-blowing.”
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The Southern Tour (opens rcmnd.app)