Best of #econtwitter - Week of October 1, 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.

Misc

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^file under the recurring theme of, “measuring inflation is harder than you think”

^“the Problem of Scientific Credit”, still a problem, still looking for an optimal mechanism (and/or new technology to allow for new, more optimal mechanisms)

^related

Predocs, etc

Fraud accusations, etc

^Gideon Krauss-Lewis article. Some highlights, the entire article is worth the entire read though IMO

^the answer is tweet threads (in the long run the lowest friction platform always wins)

^“but does it scale?” dot jpg

Charts

^annals of good data viz

Public goods