Best of #econtwitter - Week of July 9, 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.

Twitter might be dying, and it was a holiday week in the US, but a lot of good content here?

Publishing

^surely there is heterogeneity across fields, but also does sometimes seem like everyone thinks they’re the ones who have it the worst — would love any references to empirical evidence

AI

^this is a new beta feature for Pro users. Here’s another thread

Interesting discussions

^separately:

Platform wars

^econtwitter refugees on bluesky here, though seems like facebook/meta/instagram’s “Threads” platforms is taking off more (no desktop version yet)

^more, on complaints about Twitter. Also: the Twitter algorithm silences substack-linked threads; and seems to downgrade links in general. Also: as previously editions of this newsletter have complained about, killing the Twitter API has killed third-party platforms. Also: searching/QTing sometimes break / don’t show all results. Also: the neutering of tweetdeck

^it will be hard for the newsletter to continue if Threads overtakes Twitter (this would not be the end of the world) given how non-customizable the platform is… it looks too hard to filter for Good Content there. But that might change!

From the archives

Charts

^Aguiar et al (2021): underrated

^discussion

^is something going on with prices? :

^“Most tech jobs are in NAICS 51. [Wolfers] cited a sub category of NAICS 54.” That said, underlying point about media distortions re: “highly visible”/elite sectors still probably true though, cf paper

Fin

^agreed, increase the demand for our labor :)