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@chartbook_21:publication {title: "Chartbook #21: Vasily Grossman’s Stalingrad novels", date: @date_2021_09_??, likes: ?, comments: ?}
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@chartbook_82:publication {title: "Chartbook #82: The rise of asset‑manager capitalism and the financial crisis of 2008", date: @date_2022_02_13, likes: 40, comments: 13}
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@chartbook_119:publication {title: "Chartbook #119: Lend‑Lease & Escalation", date: @date_2022_05_07, likes: 142, comments: 37}
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@chartbook_123:publication {title: "Chartbook #123: The war in Ukraine and the triumph of the all‑American anti‑tank gizmo", date: @date_2022_05_22, likes: 64, comments: 40}
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@shutdown_book:document {title: "Shutdown", author: @adam_tooze, subject: "COVID‑19 economic shutdown"}
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<p>It is a delight to welcome new readers to Chartbook. </p><p>Many have come by way of the very <a href="https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2022/07/adam-tooze-chartbook-substack-newsletter-inflation-crisis/661467/">generous profile in The Atlantic by Annie Lowery</a>. </p><p>Both for new readers and those who have been following Chartbook for a while, it may be of interest to take a tour of some of the older posts. </p><p>Much of the material in the newsletter is by its nature ephemeral but some of the posts cover issues that have a longer sell by date.</p><p>For the first anniversary of the newsletter in the fall of 2021 I put together an index. </p><div class="embedded-post-wrap" data-attrs="{"id":43998863,"url":"https://adamtooze.substack.com/p/chartbooks-1st-birthday-2020-2021","publication_id":192845,"publication_name":"Chartbook","publication_logo_url":"https://bucketeer-e05bbc84-baa3-437e-9518-adb32be77984.s3.amazonaws.com/public/images/a8e73950-03bb-4589-afaf-d9cdd55ab61b_500x500.png","title":"#52: Chartbook's 1st Birthday 2020-2021","truncated_body_text":"This weekend Chartbook celebrates its first birthday. It has been a great year. When, six years ago, I was first getting into social media (yes, as recently as that), I chose as my facebook banner this image by Paul Klee. Paul Klee, Vorhaben, 1938. Source:","date":"2021-11-14T12:00:33.952Z","like_count":15,"comment_count":0,"bylines":[{"id":2779232,"name":"Adam Tooze","previous_name":null,"photo_url":"https://bucketeer-e05bbc84-baa3-437e-9518-adb32be77984.s3.amazonaws.com/public/images/dafd8e86-5f2d-40e3-b2b3-583e237dfab6_48x48.png","bio":"Columbia University ","profile_set_up_at":"2021-07-12T13:37:26.858Z","publicationUsers":[{"id":178707,"user_id":2779232,"publication_id":192845,"role":"admin","public":true,"is_primary":false,"publication":{"id":192845,"name":"Chartbook","subdomain":"adamtooze","custom_domain":null,"custom_domain_optional":false,"hero_text":"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. ","logo_url":"https://bucketeer-e05bbc84-baa3-437e-9518-adb32be77984.s3.amazonaws.com/public/images/a8e73950-03bb-4589-afaf-d9cdd55ab61b_500x500.png","author_id":2779232,"theme_var_background_pop":"#009b50","created_at":"2020-11-15T19:00:43.713Z","rss_website_url":null,"email_from_name":null,"copyright":"Adam Tooze","founding_plan_name":"Founding Member","community_enabled":true,"invite_only":false}}],"twitter_screen_name":"adam_tooze","is_guest":false}],"utm_campaign":null,"belowTheFold":false,"type":null,"language":"en"}" data-component-name="EmbeddedPostToDOM"><a class="embedded-post" native="true" href="https://adamtooze.substack.com/p/chartbooks-1st-birthday-2020-2021?utm_source=substack&utm_campaign=post_embed&utm_medium=web"><div class="embedded-post-header"><img class="embedded-post-publication-logo" src="https://bucketeer-e05bbc84-baa3-437e-9518-adb32be77984.s3.amazonaws.com/public/images/a8e73950-03bb-4589-afaf-d9cdd55ab61b_500x500.png"><span class="embedded-post-publication-name">Chartbook</span></div><div class="embedded-post-title-wrapper"><div class="embedded-post-title">#52: Chartbook's 1st Birthday 2020-2021</div></div><div class="embedded-post-body">This weekend Chartbook celebrates its first birthday. It has been a great year. When, six years ago, I was first getting into social media (yes, as recently as that), I chose as my facebook banner this image by Paul Klee. Paul Klee, Vorhaben, 1938. Source…</div><div class="embedded-post-cta-wrapper"><span class="embedded-post-cta">Read more</span></div><div class="embedded-post-meta">4 years ago · 15 likes · Adam Tooze</div></a></div><p>Here are some particular recommendations. Back in the fall of 2021 I did two pieces to accompany the release of my COVID book <em>Shutdown</em>, which still rattle around in my mind. </p><p><a href="https://adamtooze.substack.com/p/chartbook-on-shutdown-keynes-and">On Keynes and why we can afford anything we can actually do</a>. </p><p>And on <a href="https://adamtooze.substack.com/p/chartbook-on-shutdown-2-writing-in">writing in media res</a>, which my friend Nick Mulder suggested to me might actually be a great alternative title for the Newsletter. </p><p>I am in the Abacos right now, and two pieces I wrote here last year come to mind. </p><p><a href="https://adamtooze.substack.com/p/chartbook-newsletter-20">Chartbook #20 on The Caribbean, Central America and the "Brazilianization" thesis</a>, which was a response to a fascinating article by Alex Hochuli. </p><p>The other, <a href="https://adamtooze.substack.com/p/chartbook-21">Chartbook #21</a>, was an essay about Vasily Grossman’s Stalingrad novels. </p><div 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More freewheeling than what you might read from me in FT, Guardian, Foreign Policy, LRB, SocialEurope etc. ","logo_url":"https://bucketeer-e05bbc84-baa3-437e-9518-adb32be77984.s3.amazonaws.com/public/images/a8e73950-03bb-4589-afaf-d9cdd55ab61b_500x500.png","author_id":2779232,"theme_var_background_pop":"#009b50","created_at":"2020-11-15T19:00:43.713Z","rss_website_url":null,"email_from_name":null,"copyright":"Adam Tooze","founding_plan_name":"Founding Member","community_enabled":true,"invite_only":false}}],"twitter_screen_name":"adam_tooze","is_guest":false}],"utm_campaign":null,"belowTheFold":true,"type":null,"language":"en"}" data-component-name="EmbeddedPostToDOM"><a class="embedded-post" native="true" href="https://adamtooze.substack.com/p/chartbook-45-of-scarface-and-the?utm_source=substack&utm_campaign=post_embed&utm_medium=web"><div class="embedded-post-header"><img class="embedded-post-publication-logo" src="https://bucketeer-e05bbc84-baa3-437e-9518-adb32be77984.s3.amazonaws.com/public/images/a8e73950-03bb-4589-afaf-d9cdd55ab61b_500x500.png" loading="lazy"><span class="embedded-post-publication-name">Chartbook</span></div><div class="embedded-post-title-wrapper"><div class="embedded-post-title">Chartbook #45: Of Scarface & the Nobel - The Double Life of Mariel</div></div><div class="embedded-post-body">The award of the Nobel Prize for Economics to Berkeley’s David Card is important because of the recognition it extends to an economist who has consistently worked on urgent questions of labour economics. Together with the late Alan B. Krueger and the two other winners, Joshua Angrist and Guido Imbens, Card pioneered the methodology of natural experiment…</div><div class="embedded-post-cta-wrapper"><span class="embedded-post-cta">Read more</span></div><div class="embedded-post-meta">4 years ago · 25 likes · 3 comments · Adam Tooze</div></a></div><p>Chartbook #37 on how to write the economic history of China, the Soviet Union and Eurasia’s great divergence is one I regularly come back to. </p><div class="embedded-post-wrap" data-attrs="{"id":41382187,"url":"https://adamtooze.substack.com/p/chartbook-37-how-to-escape-shock","publication_id":192845,"publication_name":"Chartbook","publication_logo_url":"https://bucketeer-e05bbc84-baa3-437e-9518-adb32be77984.s3.amazonaws.com/public/images/a8e73950-03bb-4589-afaf-d9cdd55ab61b_500x500.png","title":"Chartbook #37: How to escape shock therapy - writing the history of China, the Soviet Union and Eurasia's great divergence ","truncated_body_text":"Some time in the next 10-15 years, China’s GDP will likely overtake that of the United States. That is the future. One of the momentous that already happened early in the 21st century is China’s overtaking of Russia. The dramatic surge in China’s GDP per capita contrasts with the catastrophic collapse in the Soviet Union and Russia after 1989.","date":"2021-09-16T15:19:45.697Z","like_count":15,"comment_count":0,"bylines":[{"id":2779232,"name":"Adam Tooze","previous_name":null,"photo_url":"https://bucketeer-e05bbc84-baa3-437e-9518-adb32be77984.s3.amazonaws.com/public/images/dafd8e86-5f2d-40e3-b2b3-583e237dfab6_48x48.png","bio":"Columbia University ","profile_set_up_at":"2021-07-12T13:37:26.858Z","publicationUsers":[{"id":178707,"user_id":2779232,"publication_id":192845,"role":"admin","public":true,"is_primary":false,"publication":{"id":192845,"name":"Chartbook","subdomain":"adamtooze","custom_domain":null,"custom_domain_optional":false,"hero_text":"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. ","logo_url":"https://bucketeer-e05bbc84-baa3-437e-9518-adb32be77984.s3.amazonaws.com/public/images/a8e73950-03bb-4589-afaf-d9cdd55ab61b_500x500.png","author_id":2779232,"theme_var_background_pop":"#009b50","created_at":"2020-11-15T19:00:43.713Z","rss_website_url":null,"email_from_name":null,"copyright":"Adam Tooze","founding_plan_name":"Founding Member","community_enabled":true,"invite_only":false}}],"twitter_screen_name":"adam_tooze","is_guest":false}],"utm_campaign":null,"belowTheFold":true,"type":null,"language":"en"}" data-component-name="EmbeddedPostToDOM"><a class="embedded-post" native="true" href="https://adamtooze.substack.com/p/chartbook-37-how-to-escape-shock?utm_source=substack&utm_campaign=post_embed&utm_medium=web"><div class="embedded-post-header"><img class="embedded-post-publication-logo" src="https://bucketeer-e05bbc84-baa3-437e-9518-adb32be77984.s3.amazonaws.com/public/images/a8e73950-03bb-4589-afaf-d9cdd55ab61b_500x500.png" loading="lazy"><span class="embedded-post-publication-name">Chartbook</span></div><div class="embedded-post-title-wrapper"><div class="embedded-post-title">Chartbook #37: How to escape shock therapy - writing the history of China, the Soviet Union and Eurasia's great divergence </div></div><div class="embedded-post-body">Some time in the next 10-15 years, China’s GDP will likely overtake that of the United States. That is the future. One of the momentous that already happened early in the 21st century is China’s overtaking of Russia. The dramatic surge in China’s GDP per capita contrasts with the catastrophic collapse in the Soviet Union and Russia after 1989…</div><div class="embedded-post-cta-wrapper"><span class="embedded-post-cta">Read more</span></div><div class="embedded-post-meta">4 years ago · 15 likes · Adam Tooze</div></a></div><p>Chartbook #44 on William Jennings Bryan, populism, the gold standard, and the “cross of gold” speech. </p><div class="embedded-post-wrap" data-attrs="{"id":41253467,"url":"https://adamtooze.substack.com/p/chartbook-44-the-cross-of-gold-populism","publication_id":192845,"publication_name":"Chartbook","publication_logo_url":"https://bucketeer-e05bbc84-baa3-437e-9518-adb32be77984.s3.amazonaws.com/public/images/a8e73950-03bb-4589-afaf-d9cdd55ab61b_500x500.png","title":"Chartbook #44: The Cross of Gold - populism, democratic iterations and the politics of money ","truncated_body_text":"“Having behind us the commercial interests and the laboring interests and all the toiling masses, we shall answer their demands for a gold standard by saying to them, you shall not press down upon the brow of labor this crown of thorns. You shall not crucify mankind upon a cross of gold.”","date":"2021-10-10T15:18:04.803Z","like_count":33,"comment_count":9,"bylines":[{"id":2779232,"name":"Adam Tooze","previous_name":null,"photo_url":"https://bucketeer-e05bbc84-baa3-437e-9518-adb32be77984.s3.amazonaws.com/public/images/dafd8e86-5f2d-40e3-b2b3-583e237dfab6_48x48.png","bio":"Columbia University ","profile_set_up_at":"2021-07-12T13:37:26.858Z","publicationUsers":[{"id":178707,"user_id":2779232,"publication_id":192845,"role":"admin","public":true,"is_primary":false,"publication":{"id":192845,"name":"Chartbook","subdomain":"adamtooze","custom_domain":null,"custom_domain_optional":false,"hero_text":"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. ","logo_url":"https://bucketeer-e05bbc84-baa3-437e-9518-adb32be77984.s3.amazonaws.com/public/images/a8e73950-03bb-4589-afaf-d9cdd55ab61b_500x500.png","author_id":2779232,"theme_var_background_pop":"#009b50","created_at":"2020-11-15T19:00:43.713Z","rss_website_url":null,"email_from_name":null,"copyright":"Adam Tooze","founding_plan_name":"Founding Member","community_enabled":true,"invite_only":false}}],"twitter_screen_name":"adam_tooze","is_guest":false}],"utm_campaign":null,"belowTheFold":true,"type":null,"language":"en"}" data-component-name="EmbeddedPostToDOM"><a class="embedded-post" native="true" href="https://adamtooze.substack.com/p/chartbook-44-the-cross-of-gold-populism?utm_source=substack&utm_campaign=post_embed&utm_medium=web"><div class="embedded-post-header"><img class="embedded-post-publication-logo" src="https://bucketeer-e05bbc84-baa3-437e-9518-adb32be77984.s3.amazonaws.com/public/images/a8e73950-03bb-4589-afaf-d9cdd55ab61b_500x500.png" loading="lazy"><span class="embedded-post-publication-name">Chartbook</span></div><div class="embedded-post-title-wrapper"><div class="embedded-post-title">Chartbook #44: The Cross of Gold - populism, democratic iterations and the politics of money </div></div><div class="embedded-post-body">“Having behind us the commercial interests and the laboring interests and all the toiling masses, we shall answer their demands for a gold standard by saying to them, you shall not press down upon the brow of labor this crown of thorns. You shall not crucify mankind upon a cross of gold…</div><div class="embedded-post-cta-wrapper"><span class="embedded-post-cta">Read more</span></div><div class="embedded-post-meta">4 years ago · 33 likes · 9 comments · Adam Tooze</div></a></div><div class="captioned-image-container"><figure><a class="image-link image2 is-viewable-img" target="_blank" href="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!4Ho-!,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fbucketeer-e05bbc84-baa3-437e-9518-adb32be77984.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fe272ff6f-44bd-4ad4-a246-b091f5ee2b6e_920x1366.png" data-component-name="Image2ToDOM"><div class="image2-inset"><picture><source type="image/webp" srcset="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!4Ho-!,w_424,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fbucketeer-e05bbc84-baa3-437e-9518-adb32be77984.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fe272ff6f-44bd-4ad4-a246-b091f5ee2b6e_920x1366.png 424w, 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data-attrs="{"id":48687895,"url":"https://adamtooze.substack.com/p/chartbook-82-the-rise-of-asset-manager","publication_id":192845,"publication_name":"Chartbook","publication_logo_url":"https://bucketeer-e05bbc84-baa3-437e-9518-adb32be77984.s3.amazonaws.com/public/images/a8e73950-03bb-4589-afaf-d9cdd55ab61b_500x500.png","title":"Chartbook #82: The rise of asset manager capitalism and the financial crisis of 2008 ","truncated_body_text":"We live in a remarkable world. As of July 20 2021, three asset managers, BlackRock, Vanguard Group and State Street Corp. collectively owned about 22% of the average S&P 500 company, according to data compiled by Bloomberg, up from 13.5% in 2008. Asset manager capitalism","date":"2022-02-13T14:48:28.892Z","like_count":40,"comment_count":13,"bylines":[{"id":2779232,"name":"Adam Tooze","previous_name":null,"photo_url":"https://bucketeer-e05bbc84-baa3-437e-9518-adb32be77984.s3.amazonaws.com/public/images/dafd8e86-5f2d-40e3-b2b3-583e237dfab6_48x48.png","bio":"Columbia University ","profile_set_up_at":"2021-07-12T13:37:26.858Z","publicationUsers":[{"id":178707,"user_id":2779232,"publication_id":192845,"role":"admin","public":true,"is_primary":false,"publication":{"id":192845,"name":"Chartbook","subdomain":"adamtooze","custom_domain":null,"custom_domain_optional":false,"hero_text":"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. ","logo_url":"https://bucketeer-e05bbc84-baa3-437e-9518-adb32be77984.s3.amazonaws.com/public/images/a8e73950-03bb-4589-afaf-d9cdd55ab61b_500x500.png","author_id":2779232,"theme_var_background_pop":"#009b50","created_at":"2020-11-15T19:00:43.713Z","rss_website_url":null,"email_from_name":null,"copyright":"Adam Tooze","founding_plan_name":"Founding Member","community_enabled":true,"invite_only":false}}],"twitter_screen_name":"adam_tooze","is_guest":false}],"utm_campaign":null,"belowTheFold":true,"type":null,"language":"en"}" data-component-name="EmbeddedPostToDOM"><a class="embedded-post" native="true" href="https://adamtooze.substack.com/p/chartbook-82-the-rise-of-asset-manager?utm_source=substack&utm_campaign=post_embed&utm_medium=web"><div class="embedded-post-header"><img class="embedded-post-publication-logo" src="https://bucketeer-e05bbc84-baa3-437e-9518-adb32be77984.s3.amazonaws.com/public/images/a8e73950-03bb-4589-afaf-d9cdd55ab61b_500x500.png" loading="lazy"><span class="embedded-post-publication-name">Chartbook</span></div><div class="embedded-post-title-wrapper"><div class="embedded-post-title">Chartbook #82: The rise of asset manager capitalism and the financial crisis of 2008 </div></div><div class="embedded-post-body">We live in a remarkable world. As of July 20 2021, three asset managers, BlackRock, Vanguard Group and State Street Corp. collectively owned about 22% of the average S&P 500 company, according to data compiled by Bloomberg, up from 13.5% in 2008. Asset manager capitalism…</div><div class="embedded-post-cta-wrapper"><span class="embedded-post-cta">Read more</span></div><div class="embedded-post-meta">4 years ago · 40 likes · 13 comments · Adam Tooze</div></a></div><p>More recently I’ve done a mini-series on the ideological tropes that have emerged from the war in Ukraine. </p><div class="embedded-post-wrap" data-attrs="{"id":53119450,"url":"https://adamtooze.substack.com/p/chartbook-119-lend-lease-and-escalation","publication_id":192845,"publication_name":"Chartbook","publication_logo_url":"https://bucketeer-e05bbc84-baa3-437e-9518-adb32be77984.s3.amazonaws.com/public/images/a8e73950-03bb-4589-afaf-d9cdd55ab61b_500x500.png","title":"Chartbook #119: Lend-Lease & Escalation","truncated_body_text":"Containers of Dodge trucks awaiting shipment to Russia under the lend-lease agreement, August 1943. Library of Congress, Washington, D.C.; Alfred T. Palmer, photographer (LC-USE6-D-002838) In 2022, we wait with bated breath to see how Putin will mark “Victory day”, the day of celebration that marks the Soviet Union’s defeat of Nazi Germany. Meanwhile, in…","date":"2022-05-07T14:05:19.292Z","like_count":142,"comment_count":37,"bylines":[{"id":2779232,"name":"Adam Tooze","previous_name":null,"photo_url":"https://bucketeer-e05bbc84-baa3-437e-9518-adb32be77984.s3.amazonaws.com/public/images/dafd8e86-5f2d-40e3-b2b3-583e237dfab6_48x48.png","bio":"Columbia University ","profile_set_up_at":"2021-07-12T13:37:26.858Z","publicationUsers":[{"id":178707,"user_id":2779232,"publication_id":192845,"role":"admin","public":true,"is_primary":false,"publication":{"id":192845,"name":"Chartbook","subdomain":"adamtooze","custom_domain":null,"custom_domain_optional":false,"hero_text":"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. ","logo_url":"https://bucketeer-e05bbc84-baa3-437e-9518-adb32be77984.s3.amazonaws.com/public/images/a8e73950-03bb-4589-afaf-d9cdd55ab61b_500x500.png","author_id":2779232,"theme_var_background_pop":"#009b50","created_at":"2020-11-15T19:00:43.713Z","rss_website_url":null,"email_from_name":null,"copyright":"Adam Tooze","founding_plan_name":"Founding Member","community_enabled":true,"invite_only":false}}],"twitter_screen_name":"adam_tooze","is_guest":false}],"utm_campaign":null,"belowTheFold":true,"type":null,"language":"en"}" data-component-name="EmbeddedPostToDOM"><a class="embedded-post" native="true" href="https://adamtooze.substack.com/p/chartbook-119-lend-lease-and-escalation?utm_source=substack&utm_campaign=post_embed&utm_medium=web"><div class="embedded-post-header"><img class="embedded-post-publication-logo" src="https://bucketeer-e05bbc84-baa3-437e-9518-adb32be77984.s3.amazonaws.com/public/images/a8e73950-03bb-4589-afaf-d9cdd55ab61b_500x500.png" loading="lazy"><span class="embedded-post-publication-name">Chartbook</span></div><div class="embedded-post-title-wrapper"><div class="embedded-post-title">Chartbook #119: Lend-Lease & Escalation</div></div><div class="embedded-post-body">Containers of Dodge trucks awaiting shipment to Russia under the lend-lease agreement, August 1943. Library of Congress, Washington, D.C.; Alfred T. Palmer, photographer (LC-USE6-D-002838) In 2022, we wait with bated breath to see how Putin will mark “Victory day”, the day of celebration that marks the Soviet Union’s defeat of Nazi Germany. Meanwhile, in…</div><div class="embedded-post-cta-wrapper"><span class="embedded-post-cta">Read more</span></div><div class="embedded-post-meta">3 years ago · 142 likes · 37 comments · Adam Tooze</div></a></div><div class="embedded-post-wrap" data-attrs="{"id":54133221,"url":"https://adamtooze.substack.com/p/chartbook-120-st-javelin-lockheed","publication_id":192845,"publication_name":"Chartbook","publication_logo_url":"https://bucketeer-e05bbc84-baa3-437e-9518-adb32be77984.s3.amazonaws.com/public/images/a8e73950-03bb-4589-afaf-d9cdd55ab61b_500x500.png","title":"Chartbook #120: St Javelin, Lockheed & the arsenal of democracy","truncated_body_text":"If there is a weapon that symbolizes the war in Ukraine, it is the FGM-148 anti-tank infrared guided missile also known as Javelin. Images of St Javelin which shows Mary Magdalene holding a Javelin launcher in the style of an Eastern Orthodox church painting","date":"2022-05-10T12:28:28.026Z","like_count":51,"comment_count":0,"bylines":[{"id":2779232,"name":"Adam Tooze","previous_name":null,"photo_url":"https://bucketeer-e05bbc84-baa3-437e-9518-adb32be77984.s3.amazonaws.com/public/images/dafd8e86-5f2d-40e3-b2b3-583e237dfab6_48x48.png","bio":"Columbia University ","profile_set_up_at":"2021-07-12T13:37:26.858Z","publicationUsers":[{"id":178707,"user_id":2779232,"publication_id":192845,"role":"admin","public":true,"is_primary":false,"publication":{"id":192845,"name":"Chartbook","subdomain":"adamtooze","custom_domain":null,"custom_domain_optional":false,"hero_text":"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. ","logo_url":"https://bucketeer-e05bbc84-baa3-437e-9518-adb32be77984.s3.amazonaws.com/public/images/a8e73950-03bb-4589-afaf-d9cdd55ab61b_500x500.png","author_id":2779232,"theme_var_background_pop":"#009b50","created_at":"2020-11-15T19:00:43.713Z","rss_website_url":null,"email_from_name":null,"copyright":"Adam Tooze","founding_plan_name":"Founding Member","community_enabled":true,"invite_only":false}}],"twitter_screen_name":"adam_tooze","is_guest":false}],"utm_campaign":null,"belowTheFold":true,"type":null,"language":"en"}" data-component-name="EmbeddedPostToDOM"><a class="embedded-post" native="true" href="https://adamtooze.substack.com/p/chartbook-120-st-javelin-lockheed?utm_source=substack&utm_campaign=post_embed&utm_medium=web"><div class="embedded-post-header"><img class="embedded-post-publication-logo" src="https://bucketeer-e05bbc84-baa3-437e-9518-adb32be77984.s3.amazonaws.com/public/images/a8e73950-03bb-4589-afaf-d9cdd55ab61b_500x500.png" loading="lazy"><span class="embedded-post-publication-name">Chartbook</span></div><div class="embedded-post-title-wrapper"><div class="embedded-post-title">Chartbook #120: St Javelin, Lockheed & the arsenal of democracy</div></div><div class="embedded-post-body">If there is a weapon that symbolizes the war in Ukraine, it is the FGM-148 anti-tank infrared guided missile also known as Javelin. Images of St Javelin which shows Mary Magdalene holding a Javelin launcher in the style of an Eastern Orthodox church painting…</div><div class="embedded-post-cta-wrapper"><span class="embedded-post-cta">Read more</span></div><div class="embedded-post-meta">3 years ago · 51 likes · Adam Tooze</div></a></div><div class="embedded-post-wrap" data-attrs="{"id":51500994,"url":"https://adamtooze.substack.com/p/chartbook-123-the-war-in-ukraine","publication_id":192845,"publication_name":"Chartbook","publication_logo_url":"https://bucketeer-e05bbc84-baa3-437e-9518-adb32be77984.s3.amazonaws.com/public/images/a8e73950-03bb-4589-afaf-d9cdd55ab61b_500x500.png","title":"Chartbook #123: The war in Ukraine and the triumph of the all-American anti-tank gizmo ","truncated_body_text":"Ukraine’s successful defense against Russian attack has become a dynamic (re)generator of ideology. The war has reopened debates about just war and the future of alliances like NATO. I have addressed those themes in two pieces in New Statesman - on Habermas","date":"2022-05-22T21:03:40.394Z","like_count":64,"comment_count":40,"bylines":[{"id":2779232,"name":"Adam Tooze","previous_name":null,"photo_url":"https://bucketeer-e05bbc84-baa3-437e-9518-adb32be77984.s3.amazonaws.com/public/images/dafd8e86-5f2d-40e3-b2b3-583e237dfab6_48x48.png","bio":"Columbia University ","profile_set_up_at":"2021-07-12T13:37:26.858Z","publicationUsers":[{"id":178707,"user_id":2779232,"publication_id":192845,"role":"admin","public":true,"is_primary":false,"publication":{"id":192845,"name":"Chartbook","subdomain":"adamtooze","custom_domain":null,"custom_domain_optional":false,"hero_text":"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. ","logo_url":"https://bucketeer-e05bbc84-baa3-437e-9518-adb32be77984.s3.amazonaws.com/public/images/a8e73950-03bb-4589-afaf-d9cdd55ab61b_500x500.png","author_id":2779232,"theme_var_background_pop":"#009b50","created_at":"2020-11-15T19:00:43.713Z","rss_website_url":null,"email_from_name":null,"copyright":"Adam Tooze","founding_plan_name":"Founding Member","community_enabled":true,"invite_only":false}}],"twitter_screen_name":"adam_tooze","is_guest":false}],"utm_campaign":null,"belowTheFold":true,"type":null,"language":"en"}" data-component-name="EmbeddedPostToDOM"><a class="embedded-post" native="true" href="https://adamtooze.substack.com/p/chartbook-123-the-war-in-ukraine?utm_source=substack&utm_campaign=post_embed&utm_medium=web"><div class="embedded-post-header"><img class="embedded-post-publication-logo" src="https://bucketeer-e05bbc84-baa3-437e-9518-adb32be77984.s3.amazonaws.com/public/images/a8e73950-03bb-4589-afaf-d9cdd55ab61b_500x500.png" loading="lazy"><span class="embedded-post-publication-name">Chartbook</span></div><div class="embedded-post-title-wrapper"><div class="embedded-post-title">Chartbook #123: The war in Ukraine and the triumph of the all-American anti-tank gizmo </div></div><div class="embedded-post-body">Ukraine’s successful defense against Russian attack has become a dynamic (re)generator of ideology. The war has reopened debates about just war and the future of alliances like NATO. I have addressed those themes in two pieces in New Statesman - on Habermas…</div><div class="embedded-post-cta-wrapper"><span class="embedded-post-cta">Read more</span></div><div class="embedded-post-meta">3 years ago · 64 likes · 40 comments · Adam Tooze</div></a></div><div class="embedded-post-wrap" data-attrs="{"id":56601225,"url":"https://adamtooze.substack.com/p/chartbook-128-mission-command-natos","publication_id":192845,"publication_name":"Chartbook","publication_logo_url":"https://bucketeer-e05bbc84-baa3-437e-9518-adb32be77984.s3.amazonaws.com/public/images/a8e73950-03bb-4589-afaf-d9cdd55ab61b_500x500.png","title":"Chartbook #128: Mission command - NATO's Strangelove vision of freedom enacted on the Ukraine battlefield ","truncated_body_text":"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 tried it again. And again. And again. The Russian army made nine attempts to cross the river in the second week of May, according to Ukrainian defence chi…","date":"2022-06-12T12:27:32.230Z","like_count":87,"comment_count":47,"bylines":[{"id":2779232,"name":"Adam Tooze","previous_name":null,"photo_url":"https://bucketeer-e05bbc84-baa3-437e-9518-adb32be77984.s3.amazonaws.com/public/images/dafd8e86-5f2d-40e3-b2b3-583e237dfab6_48x48.png","bio":"Columbia University ","profile_set_up_at":"2021-07-12T13:37:26.858Z","publicationUsers":[{"id":178707,"user_id":2779232,"publication_id":192845,"role":"admin","public":true,"is_primary":false,"publication":{"id":192845,"name":"Chartbook","subdomain":"adamtooze","custom_domain":null,"custom_domain_optional":false,"hero_text":"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. ","logo_url":"https://bucketeer-e05bbc84-baa3-437e-9518-adb32be77984.s3.amazonaws.com/public/images/a8e73950-03bb-4589-afaf-d9cdd55ab61b_500x500.png","author_id":2779232,"theme_var_background_pop":"#009b50","created_at":"2020-11-15T19:00:43.713Z","rss_website_url":null,"email_from_name":null,"copyright":"Adam Tooze","founding_plan_name":"Founding Member","community_enabled":true,"invite_only":false}}],"twitter_screen_name":"adam_tooze","is_guest":false}],"utm_campaign":null,"belowTheFold":true,"type":null,"language":"en"}" data-component-name="EmbeddedPostToDOM"><a class="embedded-post" native="true" href="https://adamtooze.substack.com/p/chartbook-128-mission-command-natos?utm_source=substack&utm_campaign=post_embed&utm_medium=web"><div class="embedded-post-header"><img class="embedded-post-publication-logo" src="https://bucketeer-e05bbc84-baa3-437e-9518-adb32be77984.s3.amazonaws.com/public/images/a8e73950-03bb-4589-afaf-d9cdd55ab61b_500x500.png" loading="lazy"><span class="embedded-post-publication-name">Chartbook</span></div><div class="embedded-post-title-wrapper"><div class="embedded-post-title">Chartbook #128: Mission command - NATO's Strangelove vision of freedom enacted on the Ukraine battlefield </div></div><div class="embedded-post-body">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 tried it again. And again. And again. The Russian army made nine attempts to cross the river in the second week of May, according to Ukrainian defence chi…</div><div class="embedded-post-cta-wrapper"><span class="embedded-post-cta">Read more</span></div><div class="embedded-post-meta">3 years ago · 87 likes · 47 comments · Adam Tooze</div></a></div><p>But perhaps the newsletter that has meant most to me is an appreciation of Stuart Hall’s autobiography. </p><div class="embedded-post-wrap" data-attrs="{"id":58112736,"url":"https://adamtooze.substack.com/p/chartbook-125-familiar-stranger-stuart","publication_id":192845,"publication_name":"Chartbook","publication_logo_url":"https://bucketeer-e05bbc84-baa3-437e-9518-adb32be77984.s3.amazonaws.com/public/images/a8e73950-03bb-4589-afaf-d9cdd55ab61b_500x500.png","title":"Chartbook #125: Familiar Stranger - Stuart Hall on diasporic thought","truncated_body_text":"A few weeks ago, browsing the bookshop at the Barbican in London I chanced on Familiar Stranger - A Life Between Two Islands, the posthumous memoir by Stuart Hall edited by his friend and colleague Bill Schwarz. Stuart Hall, born in Kingston Jamacia in 1932, was one of the founders of","date":"2022-06-05T17:19:02.685Z","like_count":53,"comment_count":4,"bylines":[{"id":2779232,"name":"Adam Tooze","previous_name":null,"photo_url":"https://bucketeer-e05bbc84-baa3-437e-9518-adb32be77984.s3.amazonaws.com/public/images/dafd8e86-5f2d-40e3-b2b3-583e237dfab6_48x48.png","bio":"Columbia University ","profile_set_up_at":"2021-07-12T13:37:26.858Z","publicationUsers":[{"id":178707,"user_id":2779232,"publication_id":192845,"role":"admin","public":true,"is_primary":false,"publication":{"id":192845,"name":"Chartbook","subdomain":"adamtooze","custom_domain":null,"custom_domain_optional":false,"hero_text":"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. ","logo_url":"https://bucketeer-e05bbc84-baa3-437e-9518-adb32be77984.s3.amazonaws.com/public/images/a8e73950-03bb-4589-afaf-d9cdd55ab61b_500x500.png","author_id":2779232,"theme_var_background_pop":"#009b50","created_at":"2020-11-15T19:00:43.713Z","rss_website_url":null,"email_from_name":null,"copyright":"Adam Tooze","founding_plan_name":"Founding Member","community_enabled":true,"invite_only":false}}],"twitter_screen_name":"adam_tooze","is_guest":false}],"utm_campaign":null,"belowTheFold":true,"type":null,"language":"en"}" data-component-name="EmbeddedPostToDOM"><a class="embedded-post" native="true" href="https://adamtooze.substack.com/p/chartbook-125-familiar-stranger-stuart?utm_source=substack&utm_campaign=post_embed&utm_medium=web"><div class="embedded-post-header"><img class="embedded-post-publication-logo" src="https://bucketeer-e05bbc84-baa3-437e-9518-adb32be77984.s3.amazonaws.com/public/images/a8e73950-03bb-4589-afaf-d9cdd55ab61b_500x500.png" loading="lazy"><span class="embedded-post-publication-name">Chartbook</span></div><div class="embedded-post-title-wrapper"><div class="embedded-post-title">Chartbook #125: Familiar Stranger - Stuart Hall on diasporic thought</div></div><div class="embedded-post-body">A few weeks ago, browsing the bookshop at the Barbican in London I chanced on Familiar Stranger - A Life Between Two Islands, the posthumous memoir by Stuart Hall edited by his friend and colleague Bill Schwarz. Stuart Hall, born in Kingston Jamacia in 1932, was one of the founders of…</div><div class="embedded-post-cta-wrapper"><span class="embedded-post-cta">Read more</span></div><div class="embedded-post-meta">3 years ago · 53 likes · 4 comments · Adam Tooze</div></a></div><p>In any case, this is an invitation to browse the archive and enjoy.</p><p>And if you find stuff you enjoy and have not yet hit the subscription button, please do consider giving your support to the enterprise. </p><p class="button-wrapper" data-attrs="{"url":"https://adamtooze.substack.com/subscribe?","text":"Subscribe now","action":null,"class":null}" data-component-name="ButtonCreateButton"><a class="button primary" href="https://adamtooze.substack.com/subscribe?"><span>Subscribe now</span></a></p><p></p>No children (leaf entity)