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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

Posted On : October 31, 2022 Published By : BER staff
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What Numbers Don’t Know: The Broken Economics Behind America’s War in Vietnam

ZACHARY HAGEN-SMITH – MARCH 3, 2022 EDITOR: MEHUL SACHDEV If there’s one thing Mai Huy Du knew, it was that the People’s Army would take him. No matter their age Continue Reading

Posted On : March 3, 2022 Published By : BER staff
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Spaces of Religious Co-Existence

KATERI MOUAWAD – FEBRUARY 18TH, 2022 EDITOR: CHAZEL HAKIM Nine years ago, I took a gondola up to Harissa, Lebanon, and found myself looking down on Jounieh’s picturesque Mediterranean coastline. Continue Reading

Posted On : February 18, 2022 Published By : BER staff
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So You Stole a Rembrandt… Now What?

RIA BHANDARKAR – DECEMBER 1, 2021 EDITOR: ATMAN MOHANTY Edward Munch’s The Scream is one of the most recognizable paintings of all time. Its subject, a ghost-like figure gasping with Continue Reading

Posted On : December 1, 2021 Published By : BER staff
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Retirement Accounts and Overworked Drivers: The Potential of Nudge Theory

VAIDEHI BULUSU – APRIL 8TH, 2021 EDITOR: SEAN O’CONNELL Achieving behavioral change is a puzzle that economists, environmentalists, psychologists, politicians, and public health professionals alike are trying to crack. The Continue Reading

Posted On : April 8, 2021 Published By : BER staff
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Do Better, But Empirically: How Effective Altruism Attempts to Optimize Our Generosity

CHAZEL HAKIM – APRIL 7TH, 2021 EDITOR: NORA GONG Picture this: One day you acquire a fortune of money from an inheritance. However, you decide to donate the money instead Continue Reading

Posted On : April 7, 2021 Published By : BER staff
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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

Posted On : March 18, 2021 Published By : BER staff
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The Macroeconomics of Happiness: A Case Study of Bhutan

CHAZEL HAKIM – MARCH 2ND, 2021 EDITOR: SEAN O’CONNELL Situated deep in the eastern Himalayan mountains, Bhutan is often overshadowed by its more prominent neighbors: China and India. But, despite Continue Reading

Posted On : March 2, 2021 Published By : BER staff
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Waves of Globalization: How Ships and the Sea Power Economic Development

DAVIS KEDROSKY – NOVEMBER 19TH, 2020 EDITOR: KAREENA HARGUNANI Commerce is a hallmark of civilizational development in histories of antiquity. The appearances of Greek coins in Egyptian coffers or Syriac Continue Reading

Posted On : November 19, 2020 Published By : BER staff
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Why Gum Is So Sticky

AISHANI BANERJEE – NOVEMBER 10TH, 2020 EDITOR: AYDIN MAHARRAMOV Introduction Two weeks into March of this year, the United States declared a national emergency. You can probably guess why.  You can Continue Reading

Posted On : November 10, 2020 Published By : BER staff

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