Best of #econtwitter - Week of January 4, 2026: good tweets
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In this week’s edition:
“Capital in the 22nd Century” mega debate
You and Your ResearchAI and your researchShare of patents citing AI papers over time
On DEI statements
Editor’s note: this week’s paper summaries were accidentally combined with last week’s paper summaries 🤭.
Good tweets
AI and research
More bullish side of things:
A bit more bearish side of things:
^link
“Capital in the 22nd Century” mega debate
^link. Some more from Patel. And from Trammell:
This provoked a lot of discussion, e.g.:
^“I am highly confident that there are some hypothetical worlds where you’d be better off taxing wealth”, says the reply of an infidel who has not been graced by the purifying light of optimal tax theory
^interesting pushback from Trammell here that the question of “how fast will the natural resource share rise though” is hard to say…
More:
Brian Albrecht with a long model-driven discussion (link)
More good tweets
From the archives
Charts
Fin
^tempted to paste this to the top of every newsletter