Best of #econtwitter - Week of August 11, 2024: interesting tweets

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Misc

^discussion in the replies

Parenting time use charts

^very interesting, though sometimes I wonder if ATUS data is all fake (sorry!)

Charts

^the newsletter now publishes with a three-week lag to reality (makes the job more sustainable for me!), so this probably feels like ancient history at this point, but

^🤔

^a lot charts in the thread

Price theory, word problems, “conserving societal resources”

^a lot of discussion, just a few excerpts here:

Public goods

Fin

^the OG