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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

Posted On : November 14, 2022 Published By : BER staff
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What Patagonia’s Donation Shows Us About American Philanthropy

GRIFFIN SHUFELDT – NOVEMBER 10TH, 2022 EDITOR: PALLAVI MURTHY Introduction In September of this year, almost the entirety of a multibillion-dollar company was given away. In an unprecedented move, Yvon Continue Reading

Posted On : November 10, 2022 Published By : BER staff
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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

Posted On : November 9, 2022 Published By : BER staff
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Fall 2022 High School Essay Contest

Berkeley Economic Review is now accepting submissions for our High School Essay Contest! This semester, we have picked a multifaceted prompt and will be publishing the winning submission in the upcoming issue of our Continue Reading

Posted On : November 8, 2022 Published By : BER staff
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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

Posted On : November 1, 2022 Published By : BER staff
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The Financialization of Education

DHOHA BARECHE  – November 1, 2022 EDITOR: Katherine McKernan Introduction  Following WWII, there was a great sense of optimism regarding development, globalization and the role of education in facilitating these advancements. In Continue Reading

Posted On : November 1, 2022 Published By : BER staff
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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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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

Posted On : October 31, 2022 Published By : BER staff
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Labor Strikes Back

SAM QUATTROCIOCCHI – OCTOBER 26, 2022 EDITOR: ABBY MORRIS Prior to COVID’s unprecedented shock to the labor market, Unions, sectoral bargaining, strikes, and worker solidarity around the world had been Continue Reading

Posted On : October 26, 2022 Published By : BER staff
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The Parade of Inequality: Investigating Exacerbated Disparities

HANNAH SHIOHARA-OCTOBER 25, 2022 EDITOR: DENYSE CHAN The Parade  Imagine you are at a parade. Between 12 p.m. and 1 p.m., every single person in the economy will walk in Continue Reading

Posted On : October 25, 2022 Published By : BER staff

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