All Gas, No Brakes
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A World Without Coffee: The Story Behind a Possible Impending Coffee Crisis
EKATERINA YUDINA – MARCH 31ST, 2021 EDITOR: COURTNEY FUNG Coffee’s prevalence in our world cannot be overstated. In the United States alone, nearly 400 million cups of coffee are consumed Continue Reading
The Science of Fair Pricing: How Auctions Get Resources Allocation Right
NICOLAS DUSSAUX – MARCH 30TH, 2021 EDITOR: AMANDA ZHANG Soon after the awarding of the Nobel Prize of Economics this year, a number of criticisms were levied against the Nobel Continue Reading
How Taxes Shape Retail
ANI BANERJEE – MARCH 17TH, 2021 EDITOR: KAREENA HARGUNANI The Tax Code And You Let’s start at the beginning: in 1954. When the 83rd US Congress introduced the concept of Continue Reading
Minimum Wage and Unemployment: Is it time to break up with Neoclassical Economics?
JENNIFER JACKSON – MARCH 3RD, 2021 EDITOR: KAT XIE On January 14, amidst economic and social turmoil, incoming Continue Reading
Break A Leg (You’re Not Breaking Even)!: Broadway During the Pandemic
RIA BHANDARKAR – MARCH, 1ST, 2021 EDITOR: KALEY KRANICH Like any industry which relies on consumers being willingly stuck in an enclosed space for an extended period of time, musical Continue Reading
The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly Produce Movement
Ria Bhandarkar – February 16, 2020 Editor: Aydin Maharramov The seemingly niche “ugly produce” industry exists at the intersection between environmental activism and agricultural economics. In the 2010s, new statistics Continue Reading
Will COVID-19 Speed Up the Death of the American Mall?
RIA BHANDARKAR – NOVEMBER 9TH, 2020 EDITOR: CHAZEL HAKIM Since the emergence of Amazon, eBay, and other online alternatives to in-person shopping, traditional retail has experienced a slow decline. Shopping Continue Reading
Guns, Fees, Steel: The History of Payment Processors and Guns
AISHANI BANERJEE – OCTOBER 29TH, 2020 EDITOR: RAKSHA SEN On February 12, 2020, PayPal announced an unlikely partnership. Criminologists at the Crime Lab at the University of Chicago and the Continue Reading
Is Antitrust Enforcement Effective?
ALLY MINTZER – OCTOBER 28TH, 2020 EDITOR: KAT XIE Update: This article was written before the DOJ filed an antitrust lawsuit against Google on Oct 20th, 2020. In late September Continue Reading