Best of #econtwitter - Week of July 28, 2024: interesting tweets

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RegCheck

On conferences

^“unconference”s are the way (see eg here)

Misc

^new econ substack

Charts

^unfortunately some of this seems basically wrong:

^but either way, this stuff is becoming a bigger deal. One way you can see this — there’s a brand new NBER Summer Institute program on “International Economics and Geopolitics” (video). I wonder how often new programs are introduced 🤔

Public goods