Best of #econtwitter - Week of March 17, 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

^two-sided platforms cater to the more elastic side

^would read more public finance analysis written in this way

Levitt retiring, Chicago, etc

^Tyler Cowen calls this “quite simply one of the best podcasts ever”, not going to endorse that sentence but it’s an interesting episode. Thread^ has some excerpts

^Anup Malani, Ivan Werning

^🥲

^the rise/growth of masters programs effectively serves this function, no?

Charts

^strong newsletter!

^an amazing streak of columns continues; the choice to add arrows on the line graphs is a little odd

Public goods