Der Verein für Socialpolitik @VfS_econ wird 150 Jahre alt. In Heft 1-2023 der PWP erscheinen daher Beiträge zur Geschichte des Vereins. Den Auftakt macht Erik @grimmer_solem mit einem Überblick von den Anfängen des VfS bis Ende des Ersten Weltkriegs https://t.co/DbkFrRcT2Z
Just realized that I never noted the passing of Sir E. A. Wrigley, the legendary British demographer and economic historian, on February 24. Here's a short thread on someone whose research and writing made a big difference to the way that I think about the Industrial Revolution.
@KrauterStefan@energybants Right. The Olympic Committee as the final word on geography. And why the testy insulting tone, Herr Krauter? Ich habe da anscheinend ein Nerv getroffen.
@KrauterStefan@energybants There is no “American” continent. There are 2: North America and South America. Don’t project assumptions about Europe to the Western Hemisphere. And Maybe Germans should stop using “US-Amerikaner” reflecting the same Eurocentric geographic confusion.
The anti-imperialism of the hard German left has a fundamental cognitive dissonance that is unable to recognise wars of aggression by an imperialist power if said power is not the West/NATO/USA/Germany. Ontologically, Russia can never be the enemy, because recognising it as such
What I find most striking about the German debate on the #Ukraine war: how ignorantly it glosses over the fact that Germany has been wrong on almost all relevant dossiers in the lead-up to the war: Ukraine, Russia, Putin, central and eastern European security, defence, energy,…