Twitter following of economists reproduces a long upper tail distrib like that of wealth. No2 most popular econ (@Nouriel) has ~1/10 of the number of followers of the 1st (@paulkrugman). And so on...
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The same structural forces that create economic inequality also create inequality in celebrity.
6:17 PM - 2 Nov 2019
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