Best of #econtwitter - Week of May 28, 2023: interesting tweets

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Sections this week:

1. Interesting discussions

2. Advice

3. Journal system

4. Hayek (1945) & AI

5. Charts

6. Public goods

7. Fin

…a lot of tweets this week…

Interesting discussions

^file under: IRBs delenda est

Petition to AEA on EJMR

Advice

^thread

^thread, YMMV.

^thread, YMMV. Also, just going to put this here:

Journal system

^“FYI, the @QJEHarvard has done much less "inviting" of submissions in recent years than back in the 1990s”

^“On the other hand, the top-5 journals could easily double, or triple, or quadruple the number of papers they publish, and solve the problem right away.” 🧐

Hayek (1945) & AI

^generated a lot of discussion…

^related

^it’s hard to talk clearly about GE theory in a blog post, but this is usefully clear:

There’s a lot more in the QTs of Acemoglu

Charts

^everyone’s favorite noisy survey data was updated

^more

Public goods

Fin

^to be fair, we know that the market undervalues research, Romer 1990 etc ;)

^hobbies, and tweeting 😌