Best of #econtwitter - Week of May 7, 2023: interesting tweets

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

Twitter continues to block Substack from embedding tweets…

John Bates Clark

^the internet was better when these were in blog posts rather than in twitter threads, but, still the essential Kevin Bryan JBC commentary

^“Donaldson is LSE PhD so not that uncommon, esp. for a prize you can't win if not in N. Am. 3/19 in 21st c.”

Interesting discussions

^IMO some fields are further along than others, on being clear in which variation is being used

AEAs

^good long back-and-forth here (TW: drama-adjacent)

Econ/academia & covid

Public goods

AI

Charts

^🤯

Fin