Erik Grimmer-Solem

Author of Learning Empire (Cambridge UP 2019), Professor of History at Wesleyan University, historian of Germany and the world, Weltmensch.

[Perspektiven der Wirtschaftspolitik (PWP) @PerspektivenWP]

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

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@RonaldGranieri Feel for you. Only got the NYT wordle on the last try. My daughter called it a senior moment.

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@jonathanbfine I’m both unterrascht and unterweltigt.

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Excellent tribute to Tony Wrigley.

[Davis Kedrosky @dkedrosky]

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.

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@Ch_Trebesch @katrin_kamin https://t.co/svgcykBnhH

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@KrauterStefan @energybants https://t.co/V6XQMbWpm3

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@KrauterStefan @energybants https://t.co/V6XQMbWpm3

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@marceldirsus You’d think.

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@KrauterStefan @energybants https://t.co/c3p7DOkpB5

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@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.

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@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.

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@Thomas__Weber @TheGSA @BenjaminHett @gavrieldrosenfe I’ll be there are look forward to it!

[Georg ‘Maverick’ Löfflmann @gloefflmann]

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

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@kilderbenhauser May throw my hat in the ring. What are the other conferences about?

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@ctimmermann Ja, bin gerade in London auf ein Klassentreffen. 30 Jahre LSE!

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@ctimmermann Gratuliere!

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Un uff am Weg hoim i Ludwigsburg hat’s au a shön’s Schlössle.

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Heut’ in der Stelle

[Christian Odendahl @COdendahl]

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,…