Best of #econtwitter - Week of December 10, 2023: interesting tweets

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State of the twitter

^“The robustness of Twitter”. For better and quite plausibly for worse. Network effects on social media platforms are even stronger than (I, at least) thought

^some interesting back-and-forth in the replies showing evidence of link throttling 😐

Misc

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^Next: We Can Stop Capitalizing Every Word In The Title Of Papers

Job market

^haven’t seen an evidence-backed explanation for why academic hiring is down (links welcome). Some speculation about concerns on secularly declining enrollment? Is it just noise? Is there variation across fields?

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^🤔

US macro

Good back and forth here from Nate Silver about a John Burn-Murdoch column on this topic

Charts

^might also expect that higher education = higher income = higher opportunity cost of time = more stress (Alex Tabarrok had a post on a related topic earlier this year)

AI stuff

^‘you best start believing in science fiction stories, Miss Turner… you’re in one’

Fin