Best of #econtwitter - Week of June 22, 2025: good tweets

Jul 07, 2025

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.

Journals, peer review

The journal will publish several issues and then sunset after five years.
Each issue seeks to make progress on one question: what’s the ROI on public funding for R&D? To that end, it will be one home for new research on the topic.
Each issue will lead with an essay, accessible to non-specialist policymakers, that assesses the probability that the ROI of public R&D takes on specific values, based on a synthesis of all relevant work (including work published elsewhere).
We expect it will also publish work that helps answer its main question, but isn’t a good fit for a typical journal: replications, reanalyses, new datasets, etc.
Each issue’s synthesis essay will help make these contributions legible.
What else will it do? That's could be up to you! We welcome ideas from organizations interested in running the journal.
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This Pop-Up Journal is only the first we plan to support.

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