Best of #econtwitter - Week of July 2, 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.

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1. Recently, some readers have been kind enough to offer (unsolicited) pecuniary “pledges”, i.e. commitments to a paying subscription, if the option were to be turned on. Paying subscriptions will remain turned off — even voluntary ones — for now; but the expression of support is greatly appreciated 😊.

2. Relatedly, there is an updated About page now featuring a FAQ.

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Interesting discussions

^cargo cult behavior

^“What does it mean to understand how a scientific literature is put together?”

Public goods

^risk neutral probabilities of course. This is the head of bingchat

Charts

^demand curves slope down. More. Relatedly, Swedish seigniorage profits → 0

Fin

^gif