Best of #econtwitter - Week of August 23, 2026: good tweets

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“How is economics changing” FT article

^inclusions are not endorsements as always… (“trivial”?!)

Good tweets

Matt Clancy@mattsclancy

Is AI going to lead to a century of progress over ten years? I have a new piece in Asterisk’s newsletter about why all the arguing in the world often fails to lead to agreement on questions like this. 1/8

1:56 PM · Aug 20, 2026 · 22.1K Views

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^“starting fights” is an underrated strategy to increase research productivity

Sasha Gusev@SashaGusevPosts

I wrote a little bit about the data on recent DEI efforts in academic hiring (inspired by some recent articles). A few interesting charts and hot takes below. 🧵

1:26 AM · Aug 17, 2026 · 68.9K Views

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Public goods

Bryan Cutsinger@BryanPCutsinger

A work in progress, but I used @claudeai to organize all the Chicago price theory problems @irwincollier has collected from the archives. Access the database here: bryancutsinger.com/teaching/price… Suggestions welcome.

Irwin Collier @irwincollier

Economics in the Rear-view Mirror has crossed the 2000th artifact threshold. Presenting the Univ of Chicago’s economic theory prelim from the Winter quarter of 1953. https://t.co/R20A8MbZQO

2:33 AM · Aug 18, 2026 · 5.53K Views

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Charts

Stefan Schubert@StefanFSchubert

Less-educated men have lost the most relative economic status among young people in recent years. By @jburnmurdoch

7:27 AM · Aug 21, 2026 · 49.9K Views

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John Burn-Murdoch@jburnmurdoch

@paulnovosad For me this chart is the more interesting one: Dominant story for low-edu men is huge hit from decline of manufacturing. Dominant story for low-edu women is healthcare jobs. I don’t think either of those are zero-sum (not convinced men were ever competing for those jobs).

2:15 PM · Aug 21, 2026 · 20.9K Views

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