Best of #econtwitter - Week of December 31, 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.

Year in review

Misc

Bad charts: recession dating

^embrace Selgin-Calomiris Thought [reference]. More here, here

Bad charts: education spending

Bad charts: y-axes

Good charts

^a related chart on urbanization and GDPpc here

^one person’s “oligarch” is another person’s “private provider of public goods”…

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LLMs and copyright

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More inflation debate

^see also: last week’s edition

^to paraphrase Krugman 1998: he’s baaack, on twitter

^Eggertsson has a reply here

Public goods

Public good under threat:

Fin