Co-ops vs Firms: Different Sides of the Same Market Coin
EVAN DAVIS- NOVEMBER 14TH, 2022 EDITOR: ABBY MORRIS PROJECT LEAD: SAM QUATTROCIOCCHI Imagine you walk into work one day. At your old job, you’d be greeted by your boss, who Continue Reading
That Joke Isn’t Funny Anymore
ZACHARY HAGEN-SMITH– NOVEMBER 14TH, 2022 EDITOR: THOMAS GUZMAN Thomas E. Watson has a memorial in Atlanta, in a park across the street from the Georgia capitol building. The monument consists Continue Reading
The Future of Cooperatives: Policy and Sectors in Need
JACOB HEISLER – NOVEMBER 14TH, 2022 EDITOR: DENYSE CHAN Introduction In today’s market society, the dominant business structure consists of capitalist firms. The classic structure of capitalist companies prioritizes achieving Continue Reading
What Patagonia’s Donation Shows Us About American Philanthropy
GRIFFIN SHUFELDT – NOVEMBER 10TH, 2022 EDITOR: PALLAVI MURTHY Introduction In September of this year, almost the entirety of a multibillion-dollar company was given away. In an unprecedented move, Yvon Continue Reading
Twenty Years Later: An Evaluation of the Acid Rain Program of 1990
JONATHAN LI – NOVEMBER 9TH, 2022 Abstract This paper attempts to find the causal effect of phase II of the Acid Rain Program’s on SO2 emissions from US power plants Continue Reading
RetroSPACtive: just what were SPACs, anyway?
AIDEN CURRAN – NOVEMBER 1ST, 2022 EDITOR: LORENE LI If you were unfortunate enough to be a regular consumer of business-related news throughout 2021, you may have noticed a common Continue Reading
The Financialization of Education
DHOHA BARECHE – November 1, 2022 EDITOR: Katherine McKernan Introduction Following WWII, there was a great sense of optimism regarding development, globalization and the role of education in facilitating these advancements. In Continue Reading
Socialism’s Economic Calculation Problem
EVAN DAVIS – October 31st, 2022 EDITOR: AAYUSH SINGH “Socialism… has a record of failure so blatant only an intellectual could ignore or evade it.” – Thomas Sowell When the Continue Reading
Proliferation of Big Money in Politics: How Did We Get Here?
SID GUPTA- OCTOBER 21ST, 2022 EDITOR: THOMAS GUZMAN January 21, 2020 marked a decade since the Supreme Court’s ruling in Citizens United v. Federal Election Commission, a controversial decision that Continue Reading
Labor Strikes Back
SAM QUATTROCIOCCHI – OCTOBER 26, 2022 EDITOR: ABBY MORRIS Prior to COVID’s unprecedented shock to the labor market, Unions, sectoral bargaining, strikes, and worker solidarity around the world had been Continue Reading