Best of #econtwitter - Week of August 20, 2023: interesting tweets

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

Misc

^fwiw personally this same exercise is one of the most notable memories of my first econ class

Macro wars

^“Sorry if you do not find infinity intuitive” is hilarious but unfortunately unhelpful, even if you like to eat chocolate. But a lot of very technical discussion in the replies and quotes here, something twitter has had less of…

^for reference see last week’s edition, the only useful tweets of the discussion are there. Krugman is certainly right that some folks here are using models that are 50 years old

Charts

Fin