Best of #econtwitter - Week of August 4, 2024: interesting tweets
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So many good charts and miscellaneous threads this week 🥳.
Misc
^is this kind of personality causally related to being a good researcher; or is it treatment [or is it just an n=1 anecdote]
^🤔
Some price theory discussion that I am not willing/able to summarize here, here
Charts
^is this accurate?
^👁️ but also 🧐
Tenure
^a lot of interesting replies, I won’t try to include them all. Here’s the outside view:
and one point I hadn’t considered before:
^(1) are there actually any (good) studies of cross-country differences here? (2) is it obvious we only want seniors to “write books, mentor, etc”…?
Public goods
Fin
