Best of #econtwitter - Week of February 8, 2026: good tweets

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Especially good tweets

^I believe the appropriate reaction to this is, “f#$%”. Charts for some of these papers here and here

Substacks

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Good tweets

^the Bowles statement made a lot of people mad, but based on the …quality… of many of the responses you will see that AT THE LEAST we teach and often understand this topic very poorly

Public goods

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Charts

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