Best of #econtwitter - Week of September 28, 2025: good tweets
Welcome readers old and new to this week’s edition of the Best of Econtwitter newsletter. Please submit suggestions — very much including your own work! — over email or on Twitter @just_economics.
Nobel Prize special edition (as in past years, search the archives) will come out later this week…
Good tweets
^good read
^Friedman (1968) is somehow *still* underappreciated
^unironically. Including Albrecht’s own, which I have very much looked to for teaching inspo. (Also, it sure seems like some of you subscribed to this substack based on a syllabus recommendation — there are these influxes of new subscribers from particular @*.edu at semester starts...)
^the work of economists and others at statistical agencies should have such higher status
^embrace Scott Sumner Thought
^thoughts?
^discussion
The Math Wars return
^econtwitter is back bb
^it’s a good steelman
^trolling
Public goods
Charts
^!
^“exit” more accurate than “ejection”, but the change in gender composition even within the selected sample that is newsletter tweet authors is striking (and sad). You may have noticed that this week’s paper summaries happen (randomly) to be a happy exception
Fin
^real
