Best of #econtwitter - Week of July 21, 2024: paper summaries

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Idiosyncratic favorites

^quote: “Meiji development didn’t gradually increase growth rates as institutions improved; rather, a very rapid increase in manufacturing happened only after Japan succeeded in codifying about as much knowledge as Germany had in 1870”. Chart:

^new Killingsworth paper; Bloomberg coverage

^rip

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