Best of #econtwitter - Weeks of Feb 4, Feb 11, and Feb 18, 2024: interesting tweets
Best of #econtwitter - Weeks of Feb 4, Feb 11, and Feb 18, 2024: interesting tweets
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Misc
^👏B👏I👏G👏 👏Q👏U👏E👏S👏T👏I👏O👏N👏S. OurWorldInData.org is amazing for this
^a lot of free paper ideas here, high quality
^“dare to be silly” as Krugman put it in his legendary “How I Work”
^🤔
In fact, most of these comrades who I gauged to be more brilliant than I have gone on to become distinguished mathematicians. Still from the perspective of thirty or thirty five years, I can state that their imprint upon the mathematics of our time has not been very profound. They’ve done all things, often beautiful things in a context that was already set out before them, which they had no inclination to disturb. Without being aware of it, they’ve remained prisoners of those invisible and despotic circles which delimit the universe of a certain milieu in a given era. To have broken these bounds they would have to rediscover in themselves that capability which was their birthright, as it was mine: The capacity to be alone.
^not much in the replies… any thoughts?
^it’s pedantic but I think it’s worth saying “parallel counterfactual trends” every time, not “parallel trends”
^this but unironically
AI
^🧐🧐🧐🧐
RAs and coauthoring norms
Charts
^Nate Silver NYT column on the topic
^hard to measure but…
^someone must’ve done something semi-well-identified on DARE staggered rollout blah blah? very cursory gscholar search gives nothing?
^the math is more like 200 but
^why is this being sold as an “effect” in the article title???????
^speculative
^claims…
^😔
Andrew Van Dam charts
^the “Department Of Data” column at the Washington Post is one of my favorite new things that I’ve found in the last year, ~50% of the reason I recently subscribed. Someone should yell at me if excerpting too many charts is bad
Public goods
Fin
^it is an absolutely excellent tweet, but the article can be steelmanned as asking why groceries are still so expensive relative to everything else:
^…that said, the WaPo article is not clear on whether it intends this interpretation or the more natural one
