PETER ZHANG – OCTOBER 19TH, 2020 EDITOR: PEDRO DE MARCOS Soaring costs are a recurring headline in American healthcare, and the centerpiece is the rising price of drugs. A GoodRx report Continue Reading
EKATERINA YUDINA – OCTOBER 15TH, 2020 EDITOR: COURTNEY FUNG Perspectives on marijuana use have shifted since the days of overt anti-cannabis rhetoric in the media. A prime example is the Continue Reading
Writer: Davis Kedrosky – OCTOBER 13TH, 2020 Editor: Pallavi Murthy Contemporaries of the Black Death, the series of devastating plagues that peaked in Europe from 1347 to 1349, were understandably Continue Reading
JENNIFER JACKSON – OCTOBER 12TH, 2020 EDITOR: AMANDA ZHANG Over half of U.S college students are female, yet massive gender imbalances exist within several STEM related fields, including economics. A Continue Reading
JENNIFER JACKSON – OCTOBER 1ST, 2020 EDITOR: ANDREW BABSON On August 3 at the White House, President Trump said TikTok would be “shut down” by U.S. authorities, citing national security Continue Reading
KONNOR VON EMSTER – OCTOBER 1ST, 2020 EDITOR: CHAZEL HAKIM Introduction Last February, Berkeley Economic Review (BER) reported on the potential economic consequences of the novel coronavirus, also known as Continue Reading
DAVIS KEDROSKY – SEPTEMBER 29TH, 2020 EDITOR: LUCIA DARDIS History is eerily symmetrical. Another recession is looming, and, as in 2009, the government is meeting it with a fiscal spending Continue Reading
AISHANI BANERJEE – SEPTEMBER 28TH, 2020 EDITOR: SEAN O’CONNELL Introduction At the turn of the 20th century, Salt Lake City, Utah was doing well. Utah had recently passed the population Continue Reading
DAVIS KEDROSKY – APRIL 29th, 2020 EDITOR: SEAN O’CONNELL The England of legend is a land of forests. From Arthurian knights venturing through primeval groves to Robin Hood’s Sherwood raids, Continue Reading
VANESSA THOMPSON – APRIL 28TH, 2020 Dr. Meredith Lynn Fowlie is an environmental and energy economist, and Professor at the University of California, Berkeley. Her work investigates market-based environmental regulation, Continue Reading
