Best of #econtwitter - Week of November 5, 2023: interesting tweets

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Misc

Charts

^IMO one underexplored explanation for “the decline of crime” is that a lot of crime now takes place online instead of in the “real” world, e.g. the financial fraud described here, also online harassment

^(note these are all eurozone countries)

^Andrew Van Dam’s column

Fin

^implications for marginal time use on twitter vs. research left as an exercise for the reader

^me too tbh