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opinions = mine, here just to find neat things, like != endorse

[Journal of Economics Teaching @EconTeaching]

Want a new way to teach the history of economic thought? Let your class determine "The Most Interesting Economist in History"!

Inspired by March Madness, Ryan Safner (@ryansafner) pits economic thinkers in head-to-head matchups.

Learn more: https://t.co/9Jkrk9LP2f

[John B. Holbein @JohnHolbein1]

lol who did this

[Shengwu Li @ShengwuLi]

Wow. This article is how you do journalism on scientific misconduct.

https://t.co/KHl0BcVvkV

[Scott Lincicome @scottlincicome]

@deff_jobbs is the hero we need right now.

[andrew gao @itsandrewgao]

Go to Google Scholar and look up ‘As an AI language model” -“ChatGPT”’

[Michael Muthukrishna @mmuthukrishna]

🚨New paper on "What makes us smart?" w/ @johenrich

Unpacked in my soon-to-be-released book, "A Theory of Everyone"

Take home: Studying hardware won't help you understand the capabilities of pivot tables in Excel nor Code Interpreter in ChatGPT.

https://t.co/PF4xleyy91 1/

[RS @ryansafner]

Increasing Returns: Globalization and the Political Challenge of Markets

https://t.co/ILurey0PIN

[Samuel Hammond 🦉 @hamandcheese]

Presenting...

GMU Balenciaga -- Economics with attitude 😎

[Dividend Hero @HeroDividend]

The real March Madness bracket

[Tomas Pueyo @tomaspueyo]

Why do we call china the porcelain like China the country?
Why was the Silk Road called the *silk* road?

Because of the high cost vs weight of these products

This explains the Age of Discoveries after 1500
And future space exploration:

[Shoshana Weissmann, Sloth Committee Chair 🦥 @senatorshoshana]

"Olivia French, who was appointed to the board by D.C. Mayor Bowser... was selling cosmetology and barber licenses to unqualified students for thousands of dollars. She allegedly kicked back some of that cash to an official, at the D.C. Dept of Licensing and Consumer Protection."

[C Thi Nguyen @add_hawk]

One of my absolute favorite classes to teach: Porter on standardized time.

So: before modern clocks, we often kept *diurnal time*. Like: there are 24 hours in the day. 6 AM = sunrise, 6 PM = sunset. This is a completely different way of keeping time.

🧵:

[RS @ryansafner]

Increasing Returns: Economics as a Foreign Language https://t.co/5WzJ42WfTS

[Jack Meyer 🏛️ @Jackbmeyer]

Me explaining literally any historical economic development

[Alex Tabarrok @ATabarrok]

The new AEA policy which requires all data to be legally acquired has costs. As I read it, it would prohibit analysis of say the Panama papers or ProPublica tax data. Satellite data could also be considered questionable in some countries.

[RS @ryansafner]

Increasing Returns: Division of Labor vs. the Invisible Hand https://t.co/7OALRP7PR5

[Joshua Rauh @joshrauh]

Re-issuing this THREAD with a couple typos fixed and to highlight the important point: The claim in @WashingtonPost that cooking with natural gas "causes 12.7% of childhood asthma" is totally flawed. 🔥

[RS @ryansafner]

Increasing Returns: It All Begins with The Division of Labor https://t.co/kaIQLhZiey

[RS @ryansafner]

@andrew_leach Enjoy! That's how I learned to do it, just by following others. Happy to have my stuff out in public. Quarto is nice, I think it was worth the switch if you've got the time.