America is Leaking: How to Repair the Federal Water Policy?
NICOLAS DUSSAUX – APRIL 1ST, 2021 EDITOR: SEBASTIAN MARSHALL “There is nothing more useful than water: but it will purchase scarce any thing; scarce any thing can be had in Continue Reading
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
In the Shadow of the Slump: The Depression of 1920-1921
DAVIS KEDROSKY – MARCH 18TH, 2021 EDITOR: RAINA ZHAO Overshadowed by the Wall Street Crash of 1929, the Depression of 1920-1921 appears, if at all, as a footnote to the 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
“Water Finds the Leak”: How Federal and State Governments Lost Billions to Pandemic Aid Fraud
JAIDE LIN – MARCH 15TH, 2021 EDITOR: AMANDA ZHANG Introduction When the $2.2 trillion coronavirus stimulus package was greenlit through bipartisan compromise in late March, the $260 billion in emergency unemployment Continue Reading
A Recipe Against Disaster: Inside Indonesia’s Ambitious Plan to Build a New Capital
CHAZEL HAKIM – MARCH 11TH, 2021 EDITOR: KAT XIE Two years ago, the president of Indonesia, Joko “Jowoki” Widodo, announced a grandiose plan. Motivated by problems plaguing Indonesia’s current capital, Continue Reading
Will Sacramento Lead California’s Housing Revolution?
VASANTH KUMAR – MARCH 10, 2021 EDITOR: MARLEY OTTMAN Over the past year, two separate bills proposing housing rezoning reform entered Sacramento, the state capital of California; one failed, and Continue Reading
The American Austerity Playbook
VASANTH KUMAR – MARCH 4TH, 2021 EDITOR: ALLY MINTZER In his 2012 bid for the American presidency, Senator Mitt Romney’s core economic plan was to cut taxes by $4.8 trillion and 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