Is economic man really a rational agent?
DHOHA BARECHE – APRIL 6TH, 2023 EDITOR: ABIGAIL MORRIS Introduction In 1934, U.S. Congress passed the National Housing Act to stabilize the housing market after its collapse in the Great Continue Reading
Elections, Earthquakes, and Erdoğanomics: The Political Economy of Erdoğan’s War on Inflation
ESMA OZGUN – MARCH 14TH, 2023 EDITOR: GRIFFIN SHUFELDT As Turkey suffers from the destruction of the deadliest earthquake in decades, President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan will have to contend with Continue Reading
Egypt is Being Dramatic (Again)
ZACHARY HAGEN-SMITH – 2 FEBRUARY 2023 EDITOR: PALLAVI MURTHY By the spring of 2022, the desert outside Cairo had a life of its own. Cranes hung over clusters of half-built Continue Reading
Why Leaving Nuclear Energy Behind is the Wrong Choice
JACOB HEISLER – JANUARY 26TH, 2023 EDITOR: THOMAS GUZMAN The United States faces an energy crisis. America’s reliance on fossil fuels causes irreparable environmental degradation that will only increase in Continue Reading
Pay Transparency
HANNAH SHIOHARA – NOVEMBER 21ST, 2022 EDITOR: KATHERINE MCKERNAN Pay transparency, which refers to the degree of openness between a company and its employees about how much people are compensated, and 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
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
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
A Tale of Two Countries: A History of the Greek Debt Crisis
AAYUSH SINGH – OCTOBER 10TH, 2022 EDITOR: KAREENA HARGUNANI There’s a European proverb commonly heard in the continent’s politics: “fix the roof when the sun is shining.” The words are Continue Reading