Best of #econtwitter - Week of September 10, 2023: interesting tweets

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The start of the school year brings out some spiciness or something…

Misc

^“write descriptive papers”

^“there is one social science and we all are its practitioners” to paraphrase the [apocryphal?] Stigler quote? (…maybe)

Math wars, once more unto the breach

A recurring debate reoccurs:

^generated a lot of discussion (especially because of the choice of wording)

More from Shengwu Li:

And on history of thought:

Questionable section

^🧐; “Maybe true of many such changes”, cf Levitt (2021)

^is this accurate?

^🧐; mops and geeks, sort of; “Usually people who want to change the world are also weirdos”…

Public goods

Journal system incentives

^this thread sounds wild, and no doubt there are biases in the publication process and especially in …specific literatures and specific journals…, but — with more detail it doesn’t seem quite as wild

Charts

^lots of composition effects here (etc), but in particular I wonder about controlling for aging / generational shifts

^tbh didn’t find the presented arguments compelling, seems like WWII to me

Fin