Best of #econtwitter - Week of January 15, 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.
Massive negative TFP shock for newsletter writing this week, thanks to the shutdown that Joshua Gans describes here:
![Twitter avatar for @joshgans](https://substackcdn.com/image/twitter_name/w_96/joshgans.jpg)
As always, submissions welcome, if things are missing from the newsletter. Still a lot of juicy content below, though!
First-year macro
![Twitter avatar for @JonSteinsson](https://substackcdn.com/image/twitter_name/w_96/JonSteinsson.jpg)
^prompted lots of discussion. Specifically: “you can skip 2 of the 14 ‘core’ courses. Doesn’t have to be macro” (more)
![Twitter avatar for @ben_golub](https://substackcdn.com/image/twitter_name/w_96/ben_golub.jpg)
![Twitter avatar for @instrumenthull](https://substackcdn.com/image/twitter_name/w_40/instrumenthull.jpg)
^correlationally, it’s interesting that more unified fields seem more successful (e.g. econ vs. psychology). Of course causality also goes the other direction, but
![Twitter avatar for @pontus_rendahl](https://substackcdn.com/image/twitter_name/w_96/pontus_rendahl.jpg)
![Twitter avatar for @JonSteinsson](https://substackcdn.com/image/twitter_name/w_40/JonSteinsson.jpg)
![Twitter avatar for @UpdatedPriors](https://substackcdn.com/image/twitter_name/w_96/UpdatedPriors.jpg)
![Twitter avatar for @joachim_voth](https://substackcdn.com/image/twitter_name/w_96/joachim_voth.jpg)
^also, in particular, how about IO methods?
![Twitter avatar for @PierfrancescMei](https://substackcdn.com/image/twitter_name/w_96/PierfrancescMei.jpg)
![Twitter avatar for @BachmannRudi](https://substackcdn.com/image/twitter_name/w_96/BachmannRudi.jpg)
![Twitter avatar for @MargRev](https://substackcdn.com/image/twitter_name/w_40/MargRev.jpg)
![Twitter avatar for @EmilyNix100](https://substackcdn.com/image/twitter_name/w_96/EmilyNix100.jpg)
![Twitter avatar for @JonSteinsson](https://substackcdn.com/image/twitter_name/w_40/JonSteinsson.jpg)
This discussion also all comes in the aftermath of a discussion (also prompted by Steinsson) on gender diversity in macro:
![Twitter avatar for @Afinetheorem](https://substackcdn.com/image/twitter_name/w_96/Afinetheorem.jpg)
![Twitter avatar for @JonSteinsson](https://substackcdn.com/image/twitter_name/w_40/JonSteinsson.jpg)
![Twitter avatar for @Afinetheorem](https://substackcdn.com/image/twitter_name/w_96/Afinetheorem.jpg)
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![Twitter avatar for @ben_golub](https://substackcdn.com/image/twitter_name/w_96/ben_golub.jpg)
![Twitter avatar for @YannaiGonch](https://substackcdn.com/image/twitter_name/w_40/YannaiGonch.jpg)
Interesting tweets
![Twitter avatar for @ShengwuLi](https://substackcdn.com/image/twitter_name/w_96/ShengwuLi.jpg)
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![Twitter avatar for @bradchattergoon](https://substackcdn.com/image/twitter_name/w_96/bradchattergoon.jpg)
![Twitter avatar for @ShengwuLi](https://substackcdn.com/image/twitter_name/w_40/ShengwuLi.jpg)
![Twitter avatar for @ShengwuLi](https://substackcdn.com/image/twitter_name/w_96/ShengwuLi.jpg)
![Twitter avatar for @paulgp](https://substackcdn.com/image/twitter_name/w_96/paulgp.jpg)
![Twitter avatar for @florianederer](https://substackcdn.com/image/twitter_name/w_96/florianederer.jpg)
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^not actually the first, but
^NYT had a full article on this phenomenon yesterday
![Twitter avatar for @darbysaxbe](https://substackcdn.com/image/twitter_name/w_96/darbysaxbe.jpg)
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^obviously couldn’t work for every field/every project, but…