Best of #econtwitter - Week of February 1, 2026: paper summaries

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Idiosyncratic favorites

^Diamond-Dybvig is fake, a continuing series [my words, not the authors’…]

^related:

^big fan of this paper but I wouldn’t describe it as “neoclassical”!! Technology diffusion is a key mechanism, rather than pure “convergence [via capital accumulation]”

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