Emil O W Kirkegaard

Yeah, looks like it. Could also be due to increasing left-wing politics among economists.

Emil, I really appreciate you and learn a lot from your twitter, but I'm curious about how you think left-wing politics among economist is problematic in this case. Do you think they are fudging or lying/biased? What's the problem that makes you not accept their thesis?

Farzad, thanks for the kind words. I did not mean to disagree with the idea that increased interest in top 1% is a result of increased dominance of the top 1%. Economists are not particularly left-wing compared to most social sciences, AFAIK. I support intellectual diversity 1/n

Awesome. Thank you for explaining that. This is why I've fallen in love with behavioral economics and game theory. The Richard Thalers and Daniel Kahnemans of this world have completely thwarted traditional libertarian economics theories.

As I recall, some of the behavioral economy stuff have fallen prey to replication crisis. I haven't followed the situation closely, have you? It's well-known by now that the priming stuff cited by Kahneman is generally unreliable/not real, perhaps most famously that font study.