Zingales ✓

@zingales · joined 20 Sep 2008

Economist at the Chicago Booth School of Business - Co-host of the podcast Capitalisn't. Per i followers italiani: @zingales_it

29 071Followers

270Following

2 466Posts total

241.2KViews on collected posts

Against accounts of the same size

12 posts from the last 90 days, next to the 10K–100K follower range. shown widely, but few of those viewers react.

Median views2 948this account1 540median for 10K–100K

Reach, %10.14%this account4.74%median for 10K–100K

Engagement, %1.18%this account1.87%median for 10K–100K

Metric	This account	Median for 10K–100K	Ratio
Median views per post	2 948	1 540	1.91×
Reach (views ÷ followers)	10.14%	4.74%	2.14×
Engagement rate	1.18%	1.87%	0.63×

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Growth & engagement

How the posts we collected actually performed: views and reaction rate post by post, what the audience did with them, and where the follower count goes.

Views per post

12.7K13 Aug

4.6K16 Aug

157.1K22 Aug

1.2K23 Aug

876

1.3K

30.4K27 Aug

12128 Aug

181

27.3K

150

5.2K29 Aug

Last 12 collected posts, oldest on the left. The scale is logarithmic: one post can outrun the rest a hundred times over.

Engagement rate per post

1.26%13 Aug

0.91%16 Aug

0.51%22 Aug

2.01%23 Aug

4.91%

3.23%

0.31%27 Aug

1.65%28 Aug

1.10%

0.45%

2.00%

0.72%29 Aug

Reactions — likes, reposts, replies and quotes — divided by views. Median for 10K–100K accounts is 1.87%.

What the audience does

Likes58.7%1 030 in total

Reposts13.8%242 in total

Replies3.0%52 in total

Quotes2.6%45 in total

Bookmarks22.0%387 in total

Share of every reaction we collected for this account. Replies mean argument, reposts mean endorsement, bookmarks mean the post was worth keeping.

The follower curve appears once this account has two daily snapshots — we take one a day, and this one is on its first.

Latest posts

How can you tell apart an Italian from a Spaniard? But how much they move their hands when they talk :) 5.2K views · 34 likes · 1 reposts · 2 replies 29 Aug 2026 @zingales @lugaricano You guys should first do something about cronyism in Econ job market. 150 views · 2 likes · 0 reposts · 1 replies 28 Aug 2026 I sat down with Luigi Zingales and Bethany McLean on @capitalisnt to discuss "Messy Jobs: The Work That AI Cannot Reach". We had a feisty (and fun!) debate on how to avoid a jump in inequality, Coasean transaction costs, neo-feudal data monopolies, and whether messiness is 27.3K views · 92 likes · 23 reposts · 6 replies 28 Aug 2026 @zingales @lugaricano This has already happened 181 views · 2 likes · 0 reposts · 0 replies 28 Aug 2026 @zingales @lugaricano That's what has happened irl, it's all about people with networks and contacts now, after trust funds this is the next most important thing today 121 views · 2 likes · 0 reposts · 0 replies 28 Aug 2026 If credentials lose their signaling value to AI-generated resumes, we will revert to a world where personal connections dictate who gets hired. That isn't competitive capitalism, it’s cronyism. We discuss this future and how to get out of it with @lugaricano, author of “Messy ht 30.4K views · 67 likes · 17 reposts · 7 replies 27 Aug 2026 @zingales Very extreme pushback against a very mild article. Have you considered that weak critiques are not like targeted executions? 1.3K views · 41 likes · 0 reposts · 0 replies 23 Aug 2026 @zingales oh come on 876 views · 43 likes · 0 reposts · 0 replies 23 Aug 2026 @zingales Jesus Christ. If you are going to write fiction, it needs to be entertaining. 1.2K views · 24 likes · 1 reposts · 0 replies 23 Aug 2026 Everybody has heard of the Luddites, but few know Sir Thomas Maitland, the man who defeated them. Rather than using brute force to take them all out, Maitland simply identified the men he took to be ringleaders, had them arrested on evidence that was often thin, and executed 157.1K views · 565 likes · 168 reposts · 30 replies 22 Aug 2026 Randy Picker, the James Parker Hall Distinguished Service Professor of Law at the Chicago Law School, passed away suddenly last night. It is an enormous loss. He was a true scholar and a real gentleman. Read below the tribute from one of his many students https://t.co/78EIFj725x 4.6K views · 32 likes · 9 reposts · 0 replies 16 Aug 2026 If AI lets every nurse do a doctor's work, will the nurse get a raise or the doctor a wage reduction? In our latest Capitalisn’t podcast, @Bethanymac12 and I discuss with Nobel economist @DAcemogluMITabout the impact AI will have on wages and jobs. Listen to this clip from the 12.7K views · 126 likes · 23 reposts · 6 replies 13 Aug 2026