Best of #econtwitter - Week of May 4, 2025: good tweets

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Good tweets

^there is, relatedly, a lot of week-to-week volatility in twitter content

^Krugman (1993, P&P) argues something related with the case for free trade:

Is the case for a free-trade policy really as overwhelming as the professional consensus might suggest? The answer, I will argue, is no: there is a case for free trade, but it is a more subtle and above all a more *political* case than we are used to making.

Public goods

Charts

^🤔

^GDP denominator is a bit confusing but

Fin

^ @baselinescene is Simon Johnson