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Best of #econtwitter - Week of July 26, 2026: good tweets

An Economist — Mon, 07 Sep 2026 16:53:35 GMT

Welcome readers old and new to this week’s edition of the Best of Econtwitter newsletter. Please submit suggestions — very much including your own work! — over email or on Twitter @just_economics.

Good tweets

@stripe Economics piece today about the recent firming of US productivity growth & AI's potential role in it.\nTLDR: we're likely in a high-productivity period today, but the main driver *so far* is firms running their existing capital hotter, not microproductivity gains. /1 ","username":"ernietedeschi","name":"Ernie Tedeschi","profile_image_url":"https://pbs.substack.com/profile_images/1481433697182261248/rhqOzq7z_normal.jpg","date":"2026-07-23T14:12:06.000Z","photos":[{"img_url":"https://pbs.substack.com/media/HN6mBq4W4AAB0Ht.jpg","link_url":"https://t.co/x5MEweDbHO"}],"quoted_tweet":{},"reply_count":10,"retweet_count":69,"like_count":318,"impression_count":113382,"expanded_url":null,"video_url":null,"video_preview_media_key":null,"belowTheFold":false}" data-component-name="Twitter2ToDOM">

^Waymo response

@MinneapolisFed shows, the homeownership rate on a per capita basis (owners / people) is lower than on a household basis (households / people)—because many young people haven't even started their own households; they're living with parents/friends. What's going on? 🧵 ... ","username":"AzizSunderji","name":"Aziz Sunderji","profile_image_url":"https://pbs.substack.com/profile_images/1668329725339500544/qOTdZlE8_normal.jpg","date":"2026-07-21T16:02:18.000Z","photos":[{"img_url":"https://pbs.substack.com/media/HNwrTzJXgAA_-gO.jpg","link_url":"https://t.co/imcnWTyeFg"}],"quoted_tweet":{},"reply_count":5,"retweet_count":12,"like_count":47,"impression_count":4271,"expanded_url":null,"video_url":null,"video_preview_media_key":null,"belowTheFold":true}" data-component-name="Twitter2ToDOM">

^excellent

^back-and-forth continues

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cbpp.org/research/food-… ","username":"Katie_Bergh","name":"Katie Bergh","profile_image_url":"https://pbs.substack.com/profile_images/1650590374933438470/1Vib79Ay_normal.jpg","date":"2026-07-21T16:23:56.000Z","photos":[{"img_url":"https://pbs.substack.com/media/HNw40MTXoAA8joG.png","link_url":"https://t.co/tpbeJuITpy","alt_text":"Graphic showing the change in SNAP participation from July 2024 to April 2026. Between the reconciliation law's enactment in July 2025 and April 2026, the number of people receiving SNAP fell by more than 4.5 million."}],"quoted_tweet":{},"reply_count":59,"retweet_count":204,"like_count":335,"impression_count":212761,"expanded_url":null,"video_url":null,"video_preview_media_key":null,"belowTheFold":true}" data-component-name="Twitter2ToDOM">

^what’s going on with the Hollywood economy the last few years

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Best of #econtwitter - Week of July 26, 2026: paper summaries

An Economist — Mon, 07 Sep 2026 16:47:54 GMT

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arxiv.org/abs/2607.21534 ","username":"MishaTeplitskiy","name":"Misha Teplitskiy | Science of Science","profile_image_url":"https://pbs.substack.com/profile_images/2070950787354599424/9kxSVR50_normal.jpg","date":"2026-07-24T15:47:39.000Z","photos":[{"img_url":"https://pbs.substack.com/media/HOAQo4VWYAA3m9l.jpg","link_url":"https://t.co/PNuZX35DTZ"}],"quoted_tweet":{},"reply_count":1,"retweet_count":0,"like_count":5,"impression_count":548,"expanded_url":null,"video_url":null,"video_preview_media_key":null,"belowTheFold":false}" data-component-name="Twitter2ToDOM">

@instrumenthull, @_evan_munro and I have new toys for you 🧵\n\nOur new paper, \"Robust Signal Maximization in Spillover Experiments\", proposes an experimental design with large and robust power gains\n\narxiv.org/abs/2607.18601 ","username":"borusyak","name":"Kirill Borusyak","profile_image_url":"https://pbs.substack.com/profile_images/1448948649329893382/CpDnRTzd_normal.jpg","date":"2026-07-22T13:33:31.000Z","photos":[{"img_url":"https://pbs.substack.com/media/HN1epaBW0AA3ktT.jpg","link_url":"https://t.co/bnadiowKt2"}],"quoted_tweet":{},"reply_count":3,"retweet_count":40,"like_count":146,"impression_count":24210,"expanded_url":null,"video_url":null,"video_preview_media_key":null,"belowTheFold":false}" data-component-name="Twitter2ToDOM">

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@SimonFuchs4 and @WoanFoongWong in a new paper we presented last week at the International Trade and Investment (ITI) program of the @nberpubs's Summer Institute.\n\nWe develop a theory to ","username":"LeiboviciF","name":"Fernando Leibovici","profile_image_url":"https://pbs.substack.com/profile_images/2074483286043234305/8cUa0jxU_normal.jpg","date":"2026-07-21T16:37:45.000Z","photos":[{"img_url":"https://pbs.substack.com/media/HNw_QsLWwAAggKb.png","link_url":"https://t.co/B9kkO8c122"}],"quoted_tweet":{},"reply_count":1,"retweet_count":9,"like_count":31,"impression_count":2386,"expanded_url":null,"video_url":null,"video_preview_media_key":null,"belowTheFold":true}" data-component-name="Twitter2ToDOM">

@ZoutmanFloris from @NHHnor\n🔗ssrn.com/abstract=71254… https://t.co/DxAjCdj1VL","username":"socampdi","name":"Sergio Ocampo Díaz","profile_image_url":"https://pbs.substack.com/profile_images/1575590150742089729/pu5f9Skr_normal.jpg","date":"2026-07-22T11:29:35.000Z","photos":[],"quoted_tweet":{},"reply_count":3,"retweet_count":13,"like_count":34,"impression_count":5169,"expanded_url":null,"video_url":null,"video_preview_media_key":null,"belowTheFold":true}" data-component-name="Twitter2ToDOM">

#econtwitter ","username":"ani_econ","name":"Aniruddha Ghosh","profile_image_url":"https://pbs.substack.com/profile_images/1935077956881387520/zn1_pigS_normal.jpg","date":"2026-07-23T02:49:59.000Z","photos":[],"quoted_tweet":{},"reply_count":0,"retweet_count":4,"like_count":16,"impression_count":1575,"expanded_url":{"url":"https://arxiv.org/abs/2310.00531","title":"On Continuity of Separately Convex Preferences and Correspondences","description":"We study separate convexity for preferences and correspondences, and show that this weakening of the usual convexity postulate is strong enough to recover standard equivalences among continuity...","domain":"arxiv.org","image":"https://pbs.substack.com/news_img/2080123230321524736/42krQht8?format=jpg&name=orig"},"video_url":null,"video_preview_media_key":null,"belowTheFold":true}" data-component-name="Twitter2ToDOM">

conference.nber.org/conf_papers/f2…\n\nMain result: Firms that borrow against existing assets early in life all end up in the same place, while firms that borrow earlier against future cash flows outperform","username":"m_aragoneses","name":"Martin Aragoneses","profile_image_url":"https://pbs.substack.com/profile_images/1773100019349872641/jaaTsA6b_normal.jpg","date":"2026-07-23T12:22:21.000Z","photos":[{"img_url":"https://pbs.substack.com/media/HN6YDUtWoAAtSix.jpg","link_url":"https://t.co/kMrKT80OPg"}],"quoted_tweet":{"full_text":"New CEPR Discussion Paper - DP21767 \nThe Nature of Firm Financing and Growth\nMartin Aragoneses @m_aragoneses @INSEAD, Chris Hansman @EmoryEconomics, David Licher, Ramana Nanda @imperialcollege\nhttps://t.co/51Kxi4y5CK\n#CEPR_MG #CEPR_BCF #EconTwitter","username":"cepr_org","name":"CEPR","profile_image_url":"https://pbs.substack.com/profile_images/1281560719356567554/tURAm0lZ_normal.jpg"},"reply_count":1,"retweet_count":13,"like_count":63,"impression_count":8895,"expanded_url":null,"video_url":null,"video_preview_media_key":null,"belowTheFold":true}" data-component-name="Twitter2ToDOM">

@Google & @GoogleDeepMind and covers how our AI is being used at scale. \n\nThe data set has 15 million de-identified interactions across a large ","username":"alexolegimas","name":"Alex Imas","profile_image_url":"https://pbs.substack.com/profile_images/1994816403359010817/0zMDGpbF_normal.jpg","date":"2026-07-23T15:58:03.000Z","photos":[{"img_url":"https://pbs.substack.com/media/HN7JEqeWgAAu4pI.jpg","link_url":"https://t.co/fCoXbdA0le"}],"quoted_tweet":{},"reply_count":12,"retweet_count":70,"like_count":273,"impression_count":48512,"expanded_url":null,"video_url":null,"video_preview_media_key":null,"belowTheFold":true}" data-component-name="Twitter2ToDOM">

@JAMAInternalMed.🧵1/ ","username":"meddly","name":"Dan Ly","profile_image_url":"https://pbs.substack.com/profile_images/1246793070814863360/5EgMem7r_normal.jpg","date":"2026-07-20T15:24:57.000Z","photos":[{"img_url":"https://pbs.substack.com/media/HNrjF0mXcAIxJG4.jpg","link_url":"https://t.co/NSnwVe41Lp"}],"quoted_tweet":{},"reply_count":2,"retweet_count":5,"like_count":14,"impression_count":5043,"expanded_url":null,"video_url":null,"video_preview_media_key":null,"belowTheFold":true}" data-component-name="Twitter2ToDOM">

Best of #econtwitter - Week of July 19, 2026: good tweets

An Economist — Mon, 31 Aug 2026 17:59:53 GMT

Good tweets

^amazing. Begging for more of these

^will wait to see this in publications before believing it 😶…

Public goods

@devdatalab) developed our own and made them open for research.\n\nWe were kind of shocked this didn’t exist already. A thread 1/ ","username":"paulnovosad","name":"Paul Novosad","profile_image_url":"https://pbs.substack.com/profile_images/1404388273359831042/7FWLaDSK_normal.jpg","date":"2026-07-15T12:38:28.000Z","photos":[{"img_url":"https://pbs.substack.com/media/HNM1-pCX0AAaE6X.jpg","link_url":"https://t.co/cN9Hp3asbF"}],"quoted_tweet":{},"reply_count":14,"retweet_count":117,"like_count":610,"impression_count":68267,"expanded_url":null,"video_url":null,"video_preview_media_key":null,"belowTheFold":true}" data-component-name="Twitter2ToDOM">

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@stripe Economics research with @llamamrama, following up on our prior solopreneur work. Here we focus on the UK. We find evidence that official public data on UK business formations may be *understating* recent acceleration. /1 ","username":"ernietedeschi","name":"Ernie Tedeschi","profile_image_url":"https://pbs.substack.com/profile_images/1481433697182261248/rhqOzq7z_normal.jpg","date":"2026-07-13T15:55:02.000Z","photos":[{"img_url":"https://pbs.substack.com/media/HNHnw8tXMAADyqY.jpg","link_url":"https://t.co/1sK5rdKE45"},{"img_url":"https://pbs.substack.com/media/HNHn3ORX0AEgJU8.jpg","link_url":"https://t.co/1sK5rdKE45"}],"quoted_tweet":{},"reply_count":5,"retweet_count":4,"like_count":21,"impression_count":5661,"expanded_url":null,"video_url":null,"video_preview_media_key":null,"belowTheFold":true}" data-component-name="Twitter2ToDOM">

@jburnmurdoch ","username":"StefanFSchubert","name":"Stefan Schubert","profile_image_url":"https://pbs.substack.com/profile_images/1765862195806507008/vg0DSSyX_normal.jpg","date":"2026-07-18T19:19:23.000Z","photos":[{"img_url":"https://pbs.substack.com/media/HNiHjuNWcAAjacA.jpg","link_url":"https://t.co/G2Bo7wwlUs"}],"quoted_tweet":{},"reply_count":5,"retweet_count":17,"like_count":95,"impression_count":7679,"expanded_url":null,"video_url":null,"video_preview_media_key":null,"belowTheFold":true}" data-component-name="Twitter2ToDOM">

Best of #econtwitter - Week of July 19, 2026: paper summaries

An Economist — Mon, 31 Aug 2026 17:59:48 GMT

Absurdly high quantity of high-quality papers this week…

The Economics of Recursive Self-Improvement

^it’s the summer of ```RSI’’’ in San Francisco…

More threads on the same paper:

More, more, more

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@ProfSultanEcon and @gochristoph.\n\nIn line with wemustactnow.ai -- we provide early empirical evidence on the impacts of transformative generative AI. ","username":"ellliottt","name":"Elliott Ash","profile_image_url":"https://pbs.substack.com/profile_images/1709231528402726913/XSl1v_h6_normal.jpg","date":"2026-07-16T14:33:58.000Z","photos":[{"img_url":"https://pbs.substack.com/media/HNSK0VNW0AAByRK.jpg","link_url":"https://t.co/b1AqdplH0X"}],"quoted_tweet":{},"reply_count":4,"retweet_count":47,"like_count":163,"impression_count":67058,"expanded_url":null,"video_url":null,"video_preview_media_key":null,"belowTheFold":true}" data-component-name="Twitter2ToDOM">

^…what. Another thread

^“random assignment of divorces to judges”

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cepr.org/publications/d… ","username":"SoumayaKeynes","name":"Soumaya Keynes","profile_image_url":"https://pbs.substack.com/profile_images/2019147931140374528/OC6bE2f2_normal.jpg","date":"2026-07-13T15:32:03.000Z","photos":[{"img_url":"https://pbs.substack.com/media/HNHjlHAXcAEFG8e.jpg","link_url":"https://t.co/d56BE4PNGo"},{"img_url":"https://pbs.substack.com/media/HNHjlGOXIAA2Msf.jpg","link_url":"https://t.co/d56BE4PNGo"}],"quoted_tweet":{},"reply_count":3,"retweet_count":17,"like_count":149,"impression_count":16233,"expanded_url":null,"video_url":null,"video_preview_media_key":null,"belowTheFold":true}" data-component-name="Twitter2ToDOM">

@nberpubs paper w/ @PawelAdrjan, @BalgovaMaria, @jonasjessen & @JSockin: Workers infer unlisted job characteristics from what ads do list. Using a priced amenity—the 🇩🇪Deutschlandticket—we show this contaminates discrete choice estimates of WTP for amenities. 1/N","username":"simon_jaeger","name":"Simon Jäger","profile_image_url":"https://pbs.substack.com/profile_images/1424721268985712650/9DRMM6Gu_normal.jpg","date":"2026-07-18T14:44:23.000Z","photos":[],"quoted_tweet":{"full_text":"Job ads can signal hidden job traits. Evidence from German workers shows this distorts discrete choice estimates of workers’ willingness to pay, from Pawel Adrjan, Mária Balgova, @simon_jaeger, Jonas Jessen, and @JSockin https://t.co/NX0GP3sZhp","username":"nberpubs","name":"NBER","profile_image_url":"https://pbs.substack.com/profile_images/532652076543668224/usWf3i6V_normal.jpeg"},"reply_count":4,"retweet_count":10,"like_count":33,"impression_count":6534,"expanded_url":null,"video_url":null,"video_preview_media_key":null,"belowTheFold":true}" data-component-name="Twitter2ToDOM">

@amitbasole and Pratyush Priyadarshi. Link at the end.\n\nIndia's labour surveys sort households into strata before sampling. This can make estimates more precise, as compared to simple random sampling, but does it work? 🧵 ","username":"econanand","name":"Anand Shrivastava","profile_image_url":"https://pbs.substack.com/profile_images/1899396215122653184/TW8yqCwo_normal.jpg","date":"2026-07-19T09:54:20.000Z","photos":[{"img_url":"https://pbs.substack.com/media/HNlN_RaacAAsIcD.png","link_url":"https://t.co/O6ZCYjyfhC"}],"quoted_tweet":{},"reply_count":1,"retweet_count":5,"like_count":22,"impression_count":891,"expanded_url":null,"video_url":null,"video_preview_media_key":null,"belowTheFold":true}" data-component-name="Twitter2ToDOM">

Best of #econtwitter - Week of July 12, 2026: good tweets

An Economist — Tue, 25 Aug 2026 17:36:41 GMT

Good tweets

^is there work on this?

@JonSteinsson The economists who still think money is important tend to prefer Divisia measures. And these didn't move much in and after the crisis.\nI'm not denying those op eds existed of course. But the lack of inflation post crisis doesn't kill the case for the importance of money. ","username":"t_holden","name":"Tom Holden","profile_image_url":"https://pbs.substack.com/profile_images/1283681420343422976/ZVtBGGdS_normal.jpg","date":"2026-07-12T06:20:57.000Z","photos":[{"img_url":"https://pbs.substack.com/media/HNAb2pHXsAA58EK.png","link_url":"https://t.co/v9LLDPwChh"}],"quoted_tweet":{},"reply_count":4,"retweet_count":0,"like_count":16,"impression_count":981,"expanded_url":null,"video_url":null,"video_preview_media_key":null,"belowTheFold":true}" data-component-name="Twitter2ToDOM">

@t_holden @JonSteinsson inspired by @C_Harwick (econlib.org/new-inflation-…)\n\n(haven't sold myself on Divisia yet but it's intriguing) ","username":"BasilHalperin","name":"Basil Halperin","profile_image_url":"https://pbs.substack.com/profile_images/1905332522260856832/rdYkmXc9_normal.jpg","date":"2026-07-13T01:25:42.000Z","photos":[{"img_url":"https://pbs.substack.com/media/HNEgm6abgAAz3X7.jpg","link_url":"https://t.co/Q1e40On8pb"}],"quoted_tweet":{},"reply_count":2,"retweet_count":6,"like_count":32,"impression_count":5386,"expanded_url":null,"video_url":null,"video_preview_media_key":null,"belowTheFold":true}" data-component-name="Twitter2ToDOM">

^👁️o👁️

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@IFP has hosted the Economics of Ideas, Science and Innovation online PhD course. It includes lectures from luminaries of innovation economics like @ChadJonesEcon, @KRoyMyers, @inaganguli, @pierre_azoulay, @Afinetheorem, and others.\n\nUntil now, the only way to see ","username":"andrewmgerard","name":"Andrew Gerard","profile_image_url":"https://pbs.substack.com/profile_images/2009634300497453057/xjqEdHHT_normal.jpg","date":"2026-07-10T16:23:47.000Z","photos":[{"img_url":"https://pbs.substack.com/media/HM4SFcCWwAASnx6.jpg","link_url":"https://t.co/zLVD979tsH"}],"quoted_tweet":{},"reply_count":4,"retweet_count":25,"like_count":78,"impression_count":20041,"expanded_url":null,"video_url":null,"video_preview_media_key":null,"belowTheFold":true}" data-component-name="Twitter2ToDOM">

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^is something being misread here?

@TheEconomist I wrote about the incredible progress that we have been making against dementia. Though total numbers are rising (because we are living longer), the actual rate at every age has been coming down sharply for decades. A short 🧵 1/ ","username":"rosenthal_jon","name":"Jonathan Rosenthal","profile_image_url":"https://pbs.substack.com/profile_images/741973629685141504/u28_3o87_normal.jpg","date":"2026-07-09T16:33:12.000Z","photos":[{"img_url":"https://pbs.substack.com/media/HMzKvfEWwAAQahH.png","link_url":"https://t.co/xMv0KLMl3A"}],"quoted_tweet":{},"reply_count":21,"retweet_count":140,"like_count":816,"impression_count":242130,"expanded_url":null,"video_url":null,"video_preview_media_key":null,"belowTheFold":true}" data-component-name="Twitter2ToDOM">

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Best of #econtwitter - Week of July 12, 2026: paper summaries

Tue, 25 Aug 2026 17:34:43 GMT

Idiosyncratic favorites

^you see a first tweet like that and you know it’s going to be good

^you might have to chew on this one but it is JUICY

^no thread but 🤯🤯🤯

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@PolBehavior has an answer. ","username":"HongshenZhu","name":"Hongshen Zhu","profile_image_url":"https://pbs.substack.com/profile_images/1811971185074114560/oskZwh4j_normal.jpg","date":"2026-07-09T02:07:08.000Z","photos":[{"img_url":"https://pbs.substack.com/media/HMwE4_bbUAAC9y5.jpg","link_url":"https://t.co/DmYd9W2F94"}],"quoted_tweet":{},"reply_count":8,"retweet_count":32,"like_count":127,"impression_count":50178,"expanded_url":null,"video_url":null,"video_preview_media_key":null,"belowTheFold":true}" data-component-name="Twitter2ToDOM">

Best of #econtwitter - Week of July 5, 2026: good tweets

An Economist — Mon, 17 Aug 2026 15:39:57 GMT

Good tweets

@TheEconomist has a reputation as a contrarian indicator. This week we fessed up to getting a big call on oil prices from April wrong.\n\nObviously our goal is not perfectly-hedged (and perfectly boring) predictive ","username":"ArchieHall","name":"Archie Hall","profile_image_url":"https://pbs.substack.com/profile_images/1845524601167626240/jFCkBKsZ_normal.jpg","date":"2026-07-03T12:46:55.000Z","photos":[{"img_url":"https://pbs.substack.com/media/HMTd4hTboAASBWy.png","link_url":"https://t.co/eTzLLWEfCB"}],"quoted_tweet":{},"reply_count":80,"retweet_count":218,"like_count":1566,"impression_count":672809,"expanded_url":null,"video_url":null,"video_preview_media_key":null,"belowTheFold":true}" data-component-name="Twitter2ToDOM">

^:💀💀💀💀💀💀

^countarguments? besides Brian Albrecht’s hotly-anticipated upcoming

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economist.com/international/… ","username":"ChrisHerpfer","name":"Christoph Herpfer","profile_image_url":"https://pbs.substack.com/profile_images/1707126492746960896/X0QefAAo_normal.jpg","date":"2026-07-02T13:14:12.000Z","photos":[{"img_url":"https://pbs.substack.com/media/HMOaUXXXUAAKMJS.png","link_url":"https://t.co/oGQtOMLl7u"}],"quoted_tweet":{},"reply_count":1,"retweet_count":0,"like_count":7,"impression_count":609,"expanded_url":null,"video_url":null,"video_preview_media_key":null,"belowTheFold":true}" data-component-name="Twitter2ToDOM">

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Best of #econtwitter - Week of July 5, 2026: paper summaries

An Economist — Mon, 17 Aug 2026 15:39:48 GMT

Idiosyncratic favorites

More paper summaries

^additional useful commentary from Guy Lichtinger & Seyed M Hosseini (new Substack!) and from Brian Albrecht

^…xD…

@appliedkath (yes, another one; she's on a roll this year!).\n\n\"Can homophily explain public underestimation of climate policy support?\"\n\nLink below.\n\nWe start with data from a previous survey study (Sparkman et al.) finding that the U.S. public ","username":"matthewgburgess","name":"Matt Burgess","profile_image_url":"https://pbs.substack.com/profile_images/1685673205955215360/baO3xb2A_normal.jpg","date":"2026-07-01T11:54:59.000Z","photos":[{"img_url":"https://pbs.substack.com/media/HMI3l5xXgAA2sZA.jpg","link_url":"https://t.co/hohoVToyX8"},{"img_url":"https://pbs.substack.com/media/HMI5BbFXwAAjfBO.png","link_url":"https://t.co/hohoVToyX8"},{"img_url":"https://pbs.substack.com/media/HMI5BbNXAAAMehj.png","link_url":"https://t.co/hohoVToyX8"}],"quoted_tweet":{},"reply_count":1,"retweet_count":1,"like_count":6,"impression_count":1523,"expanded_url":null,"video_url":null,"video_preview_media_key":null,"belowTheFold":true}" data-component-name="Twitter2ToDOM">

Best of #econtwitter - Week of June 28, 2026: good tweets

An Economist — Mon, 10 Aug 2026 17:02:55 GMT

Good tweets

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Best of #econtwitter - Week of June 28, 2026: paper summaries

An Economist — Mon, 10 Aug 2026 17:02:09 GMT

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^🧐🧐🧐🧐🧐🧐🧐🧐🧐🧐🧐🧐🧐🧐🧐🧐🧐🧐🧐🧐🧐🧐🧐🧐🧐🧐🧐🧐🧐🧐. Some discussion here

^Garett Jones: “In the end, Sobel doesn’t answer his own question numerically, so I asked Opus: If you’re 99% accurate, count stacks of 15 cards, then count stacks of 15 stacks, then count those stacked stacks.”

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Best of #econtwitter - Week of June 21, 2026: good tweets

An Economist — Mon, 03 Aug 2026 14:47:41 GMT

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^is there any evidence that *anyone* has succeeded at this

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Best of #econtwitter - Week of June 21, 2026: paper summaries

An Economist — Mon, 03 Aug 2026 14:43:39 GMT

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^once you start thinking about this ‘compensating effort’ / ‘unobserved margins’ thing you see it everywhere. What is the best treatment of this issue?

^I’m not going to be able to adjudicate this one, some discussion: link, link, link, link

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Best of #econtwitter - Week of June 14, 2026: good tweets

An Economist — Tue, 28 Jul 2026 17:17:16 GMT

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Best of #econtwitter - Week of June 14, 2026: paper summaries

An Economist — Tue, 28 Jul 2026 17:17:15 GMT

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^excellent thread

Phones and phertility

^critical discussion here, here, here, here. Perhaps most interestingly:

^discussion of this

Author general response thread here

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^this clashes so severely with my personal experience — and I promise my tiktok algorithm is not identifying me as anti-AI — (+noting the beige background) that this unfortunately earns a 🧐

Best of #econtwitter - Week of June 7, 2026: paper summaries

An Economist — Mon, 20 Jul 2026 16:58:08 GMT

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FT/JBM treatment:

^“We formalized this famous theorem in Lean.”

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^Eggertsson comments

^forgive QT but wanted the figure. Note:

Best of #econtwitter - Week of June 7, 2026: good tweets

An Economist — Mon, 20 Jul 2026 16:58:07 GMT

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^the real answer

^top 1% gets criticized, but below that…

US vs. EU continued

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^Epoch is amazing

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Best of #econtwitter - Week of May 31, 2026: good tweets

An Economist — Tue, 14 Jul 2026 16:53:09 GMT

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The US-EU GDP debate continues

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Best of #econtwitter - Week of May 31, 2026: paper summaries

An Economist — Tue, 14 Jul 2026 16:53:07 GMT

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^continues

^big if true!

^never in my life did I expect a tweet to get 1 million views for a paper on asymptotic stability of a multisector New Keynesian model

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Best of #econtwitter - Week of May 24, 2026: paper summaries

An Economist — Mon, 06 Jul 2026 17:13:13 GMT

I’m afraid this week is AI-heavy — the entirety of the idiosyncratic favorites section. Won’t be the last time!

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^discussion here on using patents for measurement in this industry

Best of #econtwitter - Week of May 24, 2026: good tweets

An Economist — Mon, 06 Jul 2026 17:13:12 GMT

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^best of substack notes!

^in fact: there was a “hot labor market” ***BECAUSE*** “real wages got hosed”!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

^lesson for research too

^link

^I believe this argument originates with Matt Yglesias

^more of these!!!

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^correlation obviously

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^goals honestly