Interview with Hilary Hoynes
PALLAVI MURTHY – OCTOBER 2, 2023 Interview conducted by Pallavi Murthy Professor Hilary Hoynes is a Professor Economic and Public Policy at Goldman School of Public Policy at UC Berkeley. Continue Reading
Economics of Collectibles: Fighting the Assimilation of Desire
SELINA YANG – SEPTEMBER 27, 2023 EDITOR LARA RAMIEREZ The majority of my 10-year-old self’s brain power was spent thinking about Pokemon cards. Something about these colorful cardstock rectangles was Continue Reading
Interview with Professor Ted Miguel
GRIFFIN SHUFELD AND DHOHA BARECHE – SEPTEMBER 20, 2023 Interview Conducted by Griffin Shufeldt and Dhoha Bareche Ted Miguel is the Oxfam Professor of Environmental and Resource Economics at UC Continue Reading
Interview with Yuriy Gorodnichenko
MICHAEL ATHANASSIADIS – SEPTEMBER 6, 2023 Yuriy Gorodnichenko is the Quantedge Presidential Professor of Economics at UC Berkeley. Beyond his PhD in Economics, Dr. Gorodnichenko also holds a Master’s degree Continue Reading
Applying Behavioral Economics to Marketing, Policy, and Beyond
ANGELA CHEN – SEPTEMBER 6, 2023 EDITOR: MAHATHI KATTAMURI The field of behavioral economics is experiencing an intellectual heyday as we speak; books such as Thinking, Fast and Slow and Continue Reading
A Conversation with Professor Caitlin Rosenthal
ESMA OZGUN – SEPTEMBER 6, 2023 Caitlin Rosenthal is a business historian and an assistant professor at UC Berkeley. Her research focuses on the history of business management practices, and Continue Reading
Tourist Economy: The Impact of Safari in Developing African Countries
FELIX ZHANG – SEPTEMBER 6, 2023 EDITOR: ARYAN SHAFAT Overview of Safari From a distance, the cluster of palm trees in the Kenyan plains seems like an oasis. The verdant Continue Reading
Interview with Ben Harrell
APRIL 26TH, 2023 Ben Harrell is a postdoctoral researcher at Vanderbilt’s LGBT Policy Lab. He is an applied microeconomist whose work focuses on health economics, LGBT economics, public economics, and Continue Reading
Interview with Professor Daniel Acland
DANIEL ACLAND- APRIL 25TH, 2023 EDITOR: ABBY MORRIS Daniel Acland is a Behavioral Economist and Associate Adjunct Professor at UC Berkeley’s Goldman School of Public Policy. BER staff editor Abby Continue Reading
Interview With Neil Fligstein
Neil Fligstein is the Class of 1939 Chancellor’s Professor and Co-Chair of the Network for a New Political Economy. He is especially interested in the fields of economic sociology, organizational Continue Reading