Best of #econtwitter - Week of September 28, 2025: paper summaries
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Also some good papers this week from the start of August, which I had temporarily lost 😶
Idiosyncratic favorites
^astounding. Anyone want to do a BOTEC on how much this must have cost to build?
^Larry Summers here nicely describes it as “task specific Turing Tests”
^nice though I’m not sure of the interpretation of P*Q here, rather than looking at P vs. Q individually
^“theory of the second best”-thinking is cancer
^more
More paper summaries
Older papers from the week of Aug 10 that had gotten lost, temporarily
^oops
