<![CDATA[Best of Econtwitter]]>https://www.bestofecontwitter.comhttps://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!2aGE!,w_256,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fbucketeer-e05bbc84-baa3-437e-9518-adb32be77984.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fbf3fd1df-288a-4bd3-908d-0e2f42a90efd_540x540.pngBest of Econtwitterhttps://www.bestofecontwitter.comSubstackWed, 29 Jul 2026 16:53:22 GMT<![CDATA[Best of #econtwitter - Week of June 14, 2026: good tweets]]>https://www.bestofecontwitter.com/p/best-of-econtwitter-week-of-june-dfbhttps://www.bestofecontwitter.com/p/best-of-econtwitter-week-of-june-dfbTue, 28 Jul 2026 17:17:16 GMTWelcome 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.

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]]><![CDATA[Best of #econtwitter - Week of June 14, 2026: paper summaries]]>https://www.bestofecontwitter.com/p/best-of-econtwitter-week-of-june-874https://www.bestofecontwitter.com/p/best-of-econtwitter-week-of-june-874Tue, 28 Jul 2026 17:17:15 GMTWelcome 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.

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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 🧐

]]><![CDATA[Best of #econtwitter - Week of June 7, 2026: paper summaries]]>https://www.bestofecontwitter.com/p/best-of-econtwitter-week-of-june-f97https://www.bestofecontwitter.com/p/best-of-econtwitter-week-of-june-f97Mon, 20 Jul 2026 16:58:08 GMTWelcome 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.

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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:

]]><![CDATA[Best of #econtwitter - Week of June 7, 2026: good tweets]]>https://www.bestofecontwitter.com/p/best-of-econtwitter-week-of-june-a02https://www.bestofecontwitter.com/p/best-of-econtwitter-week-of-june-a02Mon, 20 Jul 2026 16:58:07 GMTWelcome 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.

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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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]]><![CDATA[Best of #econtwitter - Week of May 31, 2026: good tweets]]>https://www.bestofecontwitter.com/p/best-of-econtwitter-week-of-may-31-3b0https://www.bestofecontwitter.com/p/best-of-econtwitter-week-of-may-31-3b0Tue, 14 Jul 2026 16:53:09 GMTWelcome 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.

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The US-EU GDP debate continues

^more

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]]><![CDATA[Best of #econtwitter - Week of May 31, 2026: paper summaries]]>https://www.bestofecontwitter.com/p/best-of-econtwitter-week-of-may-31-401https://www.bestofecontwitter.com/p/best-of-econtwitter-week-of-may-31-401Tue, 14 Jul 2026 16:53:07 GMTWelcome 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.

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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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]]><![CDATA[Best of #econtwitter - Week of May 24, 2026: paper summaries]]>https://www.bestofecontwitter.com/p/best-of-econtwitter-week-of-may-24-ccbhttps://www.bestofecontwitter.com/p/best-of-econtwitter-week-of-may-24-ccbMon, 06 Jul 2026 17:13:13 GMTWelcome 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.

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

]]><![CDATA[Best of #econtwitter - Week of May 24, 2026: good tweets]]>https://www.bestofecontwitter.com/p/best-of-econtwitter-week-of-may-24-e81https://www.bestofecontwitter.com/p/best-of-econtwitter-week-of-may-24-e81Mon, 06 Jul 2026 17:13:12 GMTWelcome 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.

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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

]]><![CDATA[Best of #econtwitter - Week of May 17, 2026: good tweets]]>https://www.bestofecontwitter.com/p/best-of-econtwitter-week-of-may-17-d2chttps://www.bestofecontwitter.com/p/best-of-econtwitter-week-of-may-17-d2cMon, 29 Jun 2026 15:51:25 GMTWelcome 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.

Special section on the “US vs. EU debate” debate down below…

Good tweets

^like and subscribe

^real

^happy Monday 🫠

^unfortunately this is not a joke at many (most?) programs

US vs. EU

^makes u think

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^all producers of data are Heroes

]]><![CDATA[Best of #econtwitter - Week of May 17, 2026: paper summaries]]>https://www.bestofecontwitter.com/p/best-of-econtwitter-week-of-may-17https://www.bestofecontwitter.com/p/best-of-econtwitter-week-of-may-17Mon, 29 Jun 2026 15:51:21 GMTWelcome 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.

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^@pbragasoares

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]]><![CDATA[Best of #econtwitter - Week of May 10, 2026: paper summaries]]>https://www.bestofecontwitter.com/p/best-of-econtwitter-week-of-may-10-3d2https://www.bestofecontwitter.com/p/best-of-econtwitter-week-of-may-10-3d2Mon, 22 Jun 2026 17:00:31 GMTWelcome 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.

Banger week…

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^10% chance or something that this paper is ‘the most important of the year’ (i.e. if ‘‘‘the singularity’’’ is in the next few years), the rest of the probability goes to bottlenecks or the compute slowdown or etc

^…continues…

^@TomDavidsonX: “The feedback loops for AI R&D really are weirdly strong, much stronger than other economic feedback loops.”

^extraordinary data viz

^some discussion, which I cannot now find, suggested that because the students still had laptop access that banning phones had little effect

^throwback thursday to a 2024 special edition with some excellent commentary:

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]]><![CDATA[Best of #econtwitter - Week of May 10, 2026: good tweets]]>https://www.bestofecontwitter.com/p/best-of-econtwitter-week-of-may-10https://www.bestofecontwitter.com/p/best-of-econtwitter-week-of-may-10Mon, 22 Jun 2026 16:21:59 GMTWelcome 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.

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^highly recommend this substack

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]]><![CDATA[Best of #econtwitter - Week of May 3, 2026: paper summaries]]>https://www.bestofecontwitter.com/p/best-of-econtwitter-week-of-may-3https://www.bestofecontwitter.com/p/best-of-econtwitter-week-of-may-3Mon, 15 Jun 2026 16:07:00 GMTWelcome 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.

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Not a paper but I’ll include this here too (speculative?):

^tweet not a paper but

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]]><![CDATA[Best of #econtwitter - Week of May 3, 2026: good tweets]]>https://www.bestofecontwitter.com/p/best-of-econtwitter-week-of-may-3-ef3https://www.bestofecontwitter.com/p/best-of-econtwitter-week-of-may-3-ef3Mon, 15 Jun 2026 16:06:59 GMTWelcome 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.

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^like and subscribe

^some say it!

^bonkers

^start with one extra hour a week…

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^🥲🥲🥲

^wtf happened here

^several good charts in here I hadn’t seen before

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]]><![CDATA[Best of #econtwitter - Week of April 26, 2026: good tweets]]>https://www.bestofecontwitter.com/p/best-of-econtwitter-week-of-april-2c1https://www.bestofecontwitter.com/p/best-of-econtwitter-week-of-april-2c1Mon, 08 Jun 2026 16:10:24 GMTWelcome 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.

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^excellent

^🤯

^it is 100% happening

^it is not yet happening

^😍

From the archives

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^every week the charts section of the newsletter contains the seed of like 3 semi-decent paper ideas [perhaps this paper has already been written for all I know]

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^try to dox me i dare u

]]><![CDATA[Best of #econtwitter - Week of April 26, 2026: paper summaries]]>https://www.bestofecontwitter.com/p/best-of-econtwitter-week-of-april-efahttps://www.bestofecontwitter.com/p/best-of-econtwitter-week-of-april-efaMon, 08 Jun 2026 16:10:24 GMTWelcome 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.

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^rip

^big if true

^rip

^rip

^the lizardman constant… but make it raccoons

^commentary, commentary

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^reply

]]><![CDATA[Best of #econtwitter - Week of April 19, 2026: paper summaries]]>https://www.bestofecontwitter.com/p/best-of-econtwitter-week-of-april-929https://www.bestofecontwitter.com/p/best-of-econtwitter-week-of-april-929Thu, 04 Jun 2026 20:14:27 GMTWelcome 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.

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^multi-paper thread

]]><![CDATA[Best of #econtwitter - Week of April 19, 2026: good tweets]]>https://www.bestofecontwitter.com/p/best-of-econtwitter-week-of-april-08ehttps://www.bestofecontwitter.com/p/best-of-econtwitter-week-of-april-08eThu, 04 Jun 2026 20:14:24 GMTWelcome 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.

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^like and subscribe

^+1. undergrad intermediate textbooks… underrated…

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^measuring the relevant historical numbers is actually very hard, and I would be highly wary of these charts with beige backgrounds (i.e., generated by Claude)

^good discussion (Jess Riedel)

Fin

^Krugman is one of the GOATs

]]><![CDATA[Best of #econtwitter - Week of April 12, 2026: good tweets]]>https://www.bestofecontwitter.com/p/best-of-econtwitter-week-of-april-101https://www.bestofecontwitter.com/p/best-of-econtwitter-week-of-april-101Mon, 25 May 2026 19:13:30 GMTWelcome 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.

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^especially good

^blog posts that could be papers

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^competition

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]]><![CDATA[Best of #econtwitter - Week of April 12, 2026: paper summaries]]>https://www.bestofecontwitter.com/p/best-of-econtwitter-week-of-april-753https://www.bestofecontwitter.com/p/best-of-econtwitter-week-of-april-753Mon, 25 May 2026 19:13:24 GMTWelcome 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.

Apologies for the two weeks of radio silence… we will eventually catch back up!

Idiosyncratic favorites

^big if true!

^💀

^!!

^what do we think chat

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