Best of #econtwitter - Week of November 26, 2023: interesting tweets

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AI stuff

Job market stuff

^it’s not “unraveling” per se since [presumably?] most flyouts and therefore offers are still in Jan/Feb. But we will see

^relatedly, from the archives:

Misc

^@yohaniddawela has had a number of interesting threads related to geospatial topics recently, linked in these threads / see profile

^IMO you need a two-sector model to really talk about covid (goods vs. services. Services shut down). That’s harder to do with graphs but I think intro students can handle it

^views differ on where to choose along the efficient frontier of “maximally compressed, minimally distorted” and this can cause communication problems

^“shout it from the rooftops” as they say

Charts

^this is in dollar terms. In percentage terms:

Public goods