I've had Twitter for eight months now and I'm delighted that 53,900 of you have decided to follow me in that time.

Here's a review thread of what I've posted in the last month!

https://twitter.com/cremieuxrecueil/status/1725589232268292332

High-ranking nobility were often expected to fight. This meant they had high violent death rates. Kings were even more at risk because of the requirement to fight and the risk of assassination.

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https://twitter.com/cremieuxrecueil/status/1725587408865890616

Aristocratic death dates are often coincidental. These coincidental deaths were also disproportionately male.

This is because they were combat deaths!

https://twitter.com/cremieuxrecueil/status/1725587408865890616

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Nov 16

https://twitter.com/B_Eichengreen/status/1724492364159303875

This is a really nice JMP that deals with America's first big run-in with machine politics: Tammany Hall.

So, what effect did Tammany Hall have on the performance of the New York Police Department, and was Bill the Butcher right?🧵

https://twitter.com/B_Eichengreen/status/1724492364159303875

For background, New York's Tammany Hall was founded as part of the Tammany Societies, which were groups dedicated to celebrating Native American culture, from its titles, to the languages, to the dress.

This group's early meeting locations were, appropriately, called "Wigwams".

Early on, Tammany membership was for "native-born patriots" only. But on April 24, 1817, hundreds of Irishmen broke into a meeting and demanded entry.

A few years later, Tammany let them in and embraced universal manhood suffrage.

Here's how some people saw that idea:

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Nov 12

https://twitter.com/ProfNoto/status/1723314895280636196

This is such an incredible job market paper and it deserves a lot more attention than it's getting.

The TL;DR is that the author has provided strong evidence that "attention [from others] is a psychological commodity which people value inherently".

This is very important🧵

https://twitter.com/ProfNoto/status/1723314895280636196

Karthik studied attention with data from Reddit and TikTok.

The key quantity here is the response to attention.

On Reddit, after someone has a post that goes viral (>=80th percentile upvotes), they start to produce *a lot* more content.

A month after a viral post, people made an average of 373% more content than before they did before they went viral!

And crucially, the degree of virality doesn't seem to make much difference.

Higher intensity -> more viral, but no difference in the output change over 30 days.

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Nov 4

Stalin sent millions of people to the Gulag.

Among them were the "Enemies of the people"—the bourgeois educated elite.

Despite having everything taken from them, their descendants are more educated than their peers today.

Short🧵

Areas near Gulags today which had greater numbers of "Enemies of the people" in the past are now more developed, as indicated by satellite imagery of nightlights.

The economic benefits of having these immiserated intellectuals' descendants in an area today are visible in other ways.

For example, a one standard deviation increase in an area's "Enemies of the people" comes with 65% higher profits per employee and 22% higher average wages.

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Nov 3

Here's a chart of interest rates over seven centuries.

But something stands out: Where are all the Jewish loans?

Jews have had a reputation for making loans for centuries, but this analysis explicitly omits them. The reason is simple: Jewish loans were different.

Short🧵

In the premodern world, religious restrictions on moneylending abounded.

Since states were weak and Christians had no ability to charge usurious rates, Christian finance was handicapped. So the enterprise came to be dominated by Jews, who weren't similarly restricted.

Rulers were not unaware of this. In fact, they regularly made attempts to attract Jews to their towns and cities.

Sometimes town representatives would even beseech their lords to let them bring Jews to their towns because, TL;DR: 'think of the poor people!'

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