[GUEST ACCESS MODE: Data is scrambled or limited to provide examples. Make requests using your API key to unlock full data. Check https://lunarcrush.ai/auth for authentication information.] #  @BrianCAlbrecht Brian Albrecht Brian Albrecht posts on X about theory, if you, ibm, texas instruments the most. They currently have XXXXXX followers and XX posts still getting attention that total XXXXXX engagements in the last XX hours. ### Engagements: XXXXXX [#](/creator/twitter::219354637/interactions)  - X Week XXXXXX +488% - X Month XXXXXXX +56% - X Months XXXXXXXXX +119% - X Year XXXXXXXXX +25% ### Mentions: X [#](/creator/twitter::219354637/posts_active)  - X Month XX -XX% - X Months XXX +87% - X Year XXX +37% ### Followers: XXXXXX [#](/creator/twitter::219354637/followers)  - X Week XXXXXX +0.30% - X Month XXXXXX +1.70% - X Months XXXXXX +13% - X Year XXXXXX +25% ### CreatorRank: XXXXXXX [#](/creator/twitter::219354637/influencer_rank)  ### Social Influence **Social category influence** [finance](/list/finance) XXXXX% [technology brands](/list/technology-brands) XXXXX% [stocks](/list/stocks) XXXX% [fashion brands](/list/fashion-brands) XXXX% [social networks](/list/social-networks) XXXX% **Social topic influence** [theory](/topic/theory) 11.11%, [if you](/topic/if-you) 5.56%, [ibm](/topic/ibm) 5.56%, [texas instruments](/topic/texas-instruments) 5.56%, [investment](/topic/investment) 5.56%, [chips](/topic/chips) 5.56%, [the world](/topic/the-world) 5.56%, [the book](/topic/the-book) 5.56%, [unger](/topic/unger) 5.56%, [warner bros](/topic/warner-bros) XXXX% **Top accounts mentioned or mentioned by** [@leehepner](/creator/undefined) [@deivondrago](/creator/undefined) [@econ4everyone](/creator/undefined) [@ericfruits](/creator/undefined) [@guthmannr](/creator/undefined) [@auerdirk](/creator/undefined) [@geoffmanne](/creator/undefined) [@worksinprogmag](/creator/undefined) [@stripepress](/creator/undefined) [@atabarrok](/creator/undefined) [@tylercowens](/creator/undefined) [@amackay](/creator/undefined) [@mtkonczal](/creator/undefined) [@sethburn](/creator/undefined) [@goldroyalty1](/creator/undefined) [@arindube](/creator/undefined) [@ririnxbt](/creator/undefined) [@josefelixramost](/creator/undefined) [@hayekprogram](/creator/undefined) [@pgunigantiat](/creator/undefined) **Top assets mentioned** [IBM (IBM)](/topic/ibm) [Texas Instruments (TXN)](/topic/texas-instruments) ### Top Social Posts Top posts by engagements in the last XX hours "If you zoom out beyond manufacturing to the whole industry there is constant churn at the top. Maybe not year to year (that's ridiculous when billions are on the line) but over the medium run even it's highly contestable" [X Link](https://x.com/BrianCAlbrecht/status/1988643371813052802) 2025-11-12T16:21Z 36.6K followers, 1120 engagements "These massive investment requirements completely transformed the industry structure. In the 1980s-90s vertical integration ruled. Intel IBM Texas Instruments designed AND manufactured their own chips (IDMs). Then Rock's Law made that unsustainable" [X Link](https://x.com/BrianCAlbrecht/status/1988643375382487543) 2025-11-12T16:21Z 36.6K followers, 1064 engagements "@LeeHepner So you dont go to the theater because the quality is worse Im not sure what you mean" [X Link](https://x.com/BrianCAlbrecht/status/1997386973015671081) 2025-12-06T19:25Z 36.6K followers, XXX engagements "Some news Im writing a book for @stripepress 🎉 THE PRICE CODE is (shockingly) about price theory and teaches the power of rigorous economic reasoning. The book will explain how prices move what they reveal about the world and why most popular explanations are just empty" [X Link](https://x.com/BrianCAlbrecht/status/1992953124227805679) 2025-11-24T13:47Z 36.6K followers, 95.2K engagements "Are Compustat markups rising Let me say a bit more on this back and forth between two sets of authors. De Loecker Eeckhout and Unger (DEU) found that U.S. markups rose from XXXX to XXXX between 1980 and 2016. It's been center to debates about corporate power antitrust and the declining labor share. The paper has 3300+ citations. The DLEU estimates have faced plenty of pushback. I went through some of it here. But now we have a more narrow debate between Benkard Miller and Yurukoglu (BMY) and DEU is narrower and stranger. BMY don't really challenge the method itself. They just apply DEU's" [X Link](https://x.com/BrianCAlbrecht/status/1996270077599989845) 2025-12-03T17:27Z 36.6K followers, 43K engagements "So the big (potentially) antitrust news is Netflix maybe buying Warner Bros Discovery. One line Im seeing is that this will kill movie theaters I dont know a ton about theaters specifically. But it seems clear the theaters are already dying. Why Maybe its some nefarious plot but I think is something more mundane. Some of my research is on time use and market power. Since it takes time to watch a movie is self-evident we need to think about time use in this market. And the time use economics here are clear. As people get richer time becomes more valuable. We have more stuff but the same 24" [X Link](https://x.com/BrianCAlbrecht/status/1997377784264442321) 2025-12-06T18:49Z 36.6K followers, 15K engagements "To be clear they dont find evidence of price discrimination (as much as I wish they would). Companies are randomizing prices. Thats the story" [X Link](https://x.com/BrianCAlbrecht/status/1998405292426416228) 2025-12-09T14:52Z 36.6K followers, 28.9K engagements "Let me say a bit more about different shoppers seeing different prices on Instacart for the same products. The framing treats this as alarming evidence that "the notion of a single price is breaking down." The article involves at least three distinct concepts that economists analyze differently: randomized pricing experiments dynamic pricing and price discrimination. Let me untangle them: Randomized Pricing Experiments (A/B Testing) What Instacart says it's doing is running pricing tests. Some shoppers randomly see $XXXX for eggs; others see $XXXX. The purpose is to learn how price-sensitive" [X Link](https://x.com/BrianCAlbrecht/status/1998431155821957331) 2025-12-09T16:34Z 36.6K followers, 55K engagements "I dont know if the merger should have been blocked. But Im skeptical it would have won on retail sale of shoes as the market" [X Link](https://x.com/BrianCAlbrecht/status/1998582444086182371) 2025-12-10T02:36Z 36.6K followers, 4362 engagements "The rest of the piece digs interrelated things from dynamic pricing to price discrimination to opacity. Lots of speculation That could make it easier worried that they would soon. But its interesting and part of modern pricing. But the Instacart hook is a nothing burger" [X Link](https://x.com/BrianCAlbrecht/status/1998410549399355745) 2025-12-09T15:12Z 36.6K followers, 1021 engagements "Would consumers be better off if we banned price experimentation The implicit assumption in the coverage today around Instacart is yes. Stop the randomization get stable prices consumers win. But which stable price Critics assume everyone pays the low price. Thats literally a baked in assumption in the paper today. Thats not plausible. Presumably Instacart is experimenting around their expected optimal price so you would get some other price probably near the average of the tested range. Let me pose a super basic consumer welfare question. For what classes of downward-sloping demand curves" [X Link](https://x.com/BrianCAlbrecht/status/1998569726411169850) 2025-12-10T01:45Z 36.6K followers, 23.7K engagements "Last thing on this. So Instacart showed different people different prices for eggs. Shocking Before the outrage ignore the Twitter press release. Look at what they actually found. Understand the facts and the economic theory to make sense of it" [X Link](https://x.com/BrianCAlbrecht/status/1998845708414365728) 2025-12-10T20:02Z 36.6K followers, XX engagements
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@BrianCAlbrecht Brian Albrecht
Brian Albrecht posts on X about theory, if you, ibm, texas instruments the most. They currently have XXXXXX followers and XX posts still getting attention that total XXXXXX engagements in the last XX hours.
Engagements: XXXXXX #
- X Week XXXXXX +488%
- X Month XXXXXXX +56%
- X Months XXXXXXXXX +119%
- X Year XXXXXXXXX +25%
Mentions: X #
- X Month XX -XX%
- X Months XXX +87%
- X Year XXX +37%
Followers: XXXXXX #
- X Week XXXXXX +0.30%
- X Month XXXXXX +1.70%
- X Months XXXXXX +13%
- X Year XXXXXX +25%
CreatorRank: XXXXXXX #
Social Influence
Social category influence finance XXXXX% technology brands XXXXX% stocks XXXX% fashion brands XXXX% social networks XXXX%
Social topic influence theory 11.11%, if you 5.56%, ibm 5.56%, texas instruments 5.56%, investment 5.56%, chips 5.56%, the world 5.56%, the book 5.56%, unger 5.56%, warner bros XXXX%
Top accounts mentioned or mentioned by @leehepner @deivondrago @econ4everyone @ericfruits @guthmannr @auerdirk @geoffmanne @worksinprogmag @stripepress @atabarrok @tylercowens @amackay @mtkonczal @sethburn @goldroyalty1 @arindube @ririnxbt @josefelixramost @hayekprogram @pgunigantiat
Top assets mentioned IBM (IBM) Texas Instruments (TXN)
Top Social Posts
Top posts by engagements in the last XX hours
"If you zoom out beyond manufacturing to the whole industry there is constant churn at the top. Maybe not year to year (that's ridiculous when billions are on the line) but over the medium run even it's highly contestable"
X Link 2025-11-12T16:21Z 36.6K followers, 1120 engagements
"These massive investment requirements completely transformed the industry structure. In the 1980s-90s vertical integration ruled. Intel IBM Texas Instruments designed AND manufactured their own chips (IDMs). Then Rock's Law made that unsustainable"
X Link 2025-11-12T16:21Z 36.6K followers, 1064 engagements
"@LeeHepner So you dont go to the theater because the quality is worse Im not sure what you mean"
X Link 2025-12-06T19:25Z 36.6K followers, XXX engagements
"Some news Im writing a book for @stripepress 🎉 THE PRICE CODE is (shockingly) about price theory and teaches the power of rigorous economic reasoning. The book will explain how prices move what they reveal about the world and why most popular explanations are just empty"
X Link 2025-11-24T13:47Z 36.6K followers, 95.2K engagements
"Are Compustat markups rising Let me say a bit more on this back and forth between two sets of authors. De Loecker Eeckhout and Unger (DEU) found that U.S. markups rose from XXXX to XXXX between 1980 and 2016. It's been center to debates about corporate power antitrust and the declining labor share. The paper has 3300+ citations. The DLEU estimates have faced plenty of pushback. I went through some of it here. But now we have a more narrow debate between Benkard Miller and Yurukoglu (BMY) and DEU is narrower and stranger. BMY don't really challenge the method itself. They just apply DEU's"
X Link 2025-12-03T17:27Z 36.6K followers, 43K engagements
"So the big (potentially) antitrust news is Netflix maybe buying Warner Bros Discovery. One line Im seeing is that this will kill movie theaters I dont know a ton about theaters specifically. But it seems clear the theaters are already dying. Why Maybe its some nefarious plot but I think is something more mundane. Some of my research is on time use and market power. Since it takes time to watch a movie is self-evident we need to think about time use in this market. And the time use economics here are clear. As people get richer time becomes more valuable. We have more stuff but the same 24"
X Link 2025-12-06T18:49Z 36.6K followers, 15K engagements
"To be clear they dont find evidence of price discrimination (as much as I wish they would). Companies are randomizing prices. Thats the story"
X Link 2025-12-09T14:52Z 36.6K followers, 28.9K engagements
"Let me say a bit more about different shoppers seeing different prices on Instacart for the same products. The framing treats this as alarming evidence that "the notion of a single price is breaking down." The article involves at least three distinct concepts that economists analyze differently: randomized pricing experiments dynamic pricing and price discrimination. Let me untangle them: Randomized Pricing Experiments (A/B Testing) What Instacart says it's doing is running pricing tests. Some shoppers randomly see $XXXX for eggs; others see $XXXX. The purpose is to learn how price-sensitive"
X Link 2025-12-09T16:34Z 36.6K followers, 55K engagements
"I dont know if the merger should have been blocked. But Im skeptical it would have won on retail sale of shoes as the market"
X Link 2025-12-10T02:36Z 36.6K followers, 4362 engagements
"The rest of the piece digs interrelated things from dynamic pricing to price discrimination to opacity. Lots of speculation That could make it easier worried that they would soon. But its interesting and part of modern pricing. But the Instacart hook is a nothing burger"
X Link 2025-12-09T15:12Z 36.6K followers, 1021 engagements
"Would consumers be better off if we banned price experimentation The implicit assumption in the coverage today around Instacart is yes. Stop the randomization get stable prices consumers win. But which stable price Critics assume everyone pays the low price. Thats literally a baked in assumption in the paper today. Thats not plausible. Presumably Instacart is experimenting around their expected optimal price so you would get some other price probably near the average of the tested range. Let me pose a super basic consumer welfare question. For what classes of downward-sloping demand curves"
X Link 2025-12-10T01:45Z 36.6K followers, 23.7K engagements
"Last thing on this. So Instacart showed different people different prices for eggs. Shocking Before the outrage ignore the Twitter press release. Look at what they actually found. Understand the facts and the economic theory to make sense of it"
X Link 2025-12-10T20:02Z 36.6K followers, XX engagements