Viking Economies
Writer: Teddy Kuser Editor: Yubeen Hyun The year is 793 A.D. Monks at Lindisfarne slip into their familiar routine, bending over parchment to print and paint the Latin Vulgate Bible by hand....
Terms and Conditions: When They Matter and When They Don’t
Writer: Timothy Jin Editor: Bryan Xiao In a deluge of subheadings and elongated print, every service is now governed by terms and conditions. While paper copies once limited the spread of the...
The Rise and Fall of the YA Dystopia Genre
Writer: Saniya Pendharkar Editor: Claire Fitzgerald Introduction For a brief moment, YA dystopia ruled the cultural landscape. It began with a spark: a teenage girl volunteering to die on...
Communicating Climate Change
Writer: Richard Li Editor: David Han Once again, the tides have undeniably turned against climate change action. Take, for example, the dissolution of the Net-Zero Banking Alliance, the rise...
From Cigarettes to Screens: The Economics of Addiction
Writer: Mallory Rettig Editor: Calista Peta Cigarette addiction is a seemingly old-fashioned danger. The infamous rise and fall of the cigarette industry is burned into many minds, yet its...
The “Humanistic” Ideal: Antiquity in Capitalism
Writer: Jason Shin Editor: Andre Zaretskiy “I presume, without my telling you, you know that Homer, being the wisest of mankind, has touched upon nearly every human topic in his poems....
The Passive Paradox: Market Impacts of Structural Vulnerability to Common Ownership
Writer: Aditya Gupta Editor: Hwan Choi The Free Rider Problem For the past fifty years, financial markets have relied upon a hidden engine called “price discovery.” In economics, prices...
Guyana’s Gilded Cage
Writer: Aditya Gupta Editor: Philip Wegerhoff A historic oil boom has catapulted Guyana into a political storm about a one-sided contract and an economic crisis caused by a large influx of new...
The Olympics: Big Dreams, Bigger Bills
Writer: Jason Luo Editor: David Han Billions in cash; arenas springing up seemingly everywhere; the global spotlight shining for weeks on end. To many cities, snagging the Olympics feels like...
When Nations Bet the House
Writer: Varun Venkatesh Editor: Sean Lu Casinos are havens of chance and greed—but in Southeast Asia, they have transformed into tools of governance. “Casino diplomacy” is an emerging...