Best of #econtwitter - Week of September 29, 2024: paper summaries

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.

Special early edition for Nobel Prize eve :)

AI papers

^best data on US adoption so far

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Idiosyncratic favorites

^thread on different papers

^to emphasize, not all grading systems do this alphabetically… e.g. IIRC Gradescope shows in the order in which psets were turned in => extra incentive to get your psets in on time oops

^no more potato discussion in intermediate micro?

More paper summaries

^“The vast majority of firms founded in China, like everywhere else, are noodle shops and window frame wholesalers.”