Best of #econtwitter - Week of October 26, 2025: good tweets
Deep Dives
Explore related topics with these Wikipedia articles, rewritten for enjoyable reading:
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Rational expectations
10 min read
The article directly references 'RE = rational expectations' - a foundational concept in modern macroeconomics that revolutionized how economists model decision-making and has profound implications for policy effectiveness
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Mechanism design
10 min read
The article mentions 'mechanism design for academia' - this Nobel Prize-winning field of economics studies how to design institutions and rules to achieve desired outcomes, directly relevant to the academic reform discussions referenced
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AI alignment
11 min read
The article concludes with 'the problem of AI alignment is continuous with the problem of capitalism' - a provocative claim that connects this technical AI safety concept to economic systems, making the underlying alignment problem worth understanding deeply
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Good tweets
^to be fair, this is really our fault for using the term “equilibrium” in a way so violently disconnected from the English language definition of the word…
^🤔! (“RE” = rational expectations)
^🤯🤯🤯🤯🤯🤯
^and continuing the theme of “mechanism design for academia”:
Public goods
Going to advertise this non-tweet substack post because it is good:
^the “AI Workflow” was the part that intrigued me…
^private good
Charts
^seems more than slightly!
Fin
^BEGGING for a #BestofXHS newsletter 😩
^the problem of AI alignment is continuous with the problem of capitalism, a continuing story
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