Best of #econtwitter - Week of June 16, 2024: interesting tweets

Welcome readers old and new to this week’s edition of the Best of Econtwitter newsletter. Please submit suggestions — very much including your own work! — over email or on Twitter @just_economics.

Misc

^this would be a lot more fun with JEP

^some discussion in the replies

Fertility rate charts

Charts

^here’s a spicy take on this graph:

^🧐

^the author is here

Public goods

Fin

^I’ll also flag Matt Yglesias’ great 2013 piece about The Hunger Games as an illustration of extractive institutions. Please send more like this 😊