Salience Bias: The 24-Hour News Cycle Is a Market Failure
SARA BETTS – APRIL 25TH, 2022 EDITOR: ZACHARY HAGEN-SMITH If you are a regular news consumer like I am, it can feel impossible not to be overwhelmed by the perceived Continue Reading
The Chilean Path to Where? President Boric and the Return of the Left
SAM QUATTROCIOCCHI – APRIL 11TH, 2022 EDITOR: ZACHARY HAGEN-SMITH “Chile was the cradle of neoliberalism, but it will also be its grave,” declared Gabriel Boric as he launched his campaign Continue Reading
Hijacking Healthcare
Kunal Kumar – April 1, 2022 Editor: Katherine McKernan Introduction Legislation, activism, and policy reform. None of these forces have been strong enough to slow down the inevitable manipulation and Continue Reading
Spring 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
Spring 2022 Undergraduate Essay Contest
Berkeley Economic Review is now accepting submissions for our Undergraduate Essay Contest! This semester, we have picked a multifaceted prompt and will be publishing the winning submission in the upcoming issue of our magazine. Continue Reading
People’s Park: The University of California’s War on the Unhoused
SARA BETTS – MARCH 18, 2022 EDITOR: ATMAN MOHANTY “We used the land. We hadn’t tested and analyzed the soil. We planted things and they grew. We hadn’t run a Continue Reading
The Vanishing Dream of New Cars
PALLAVI MURTHY – 16 MARCH 2022 EDITOR: ANIKA SRIVASTAVA The common advice on buying cars is “new cars are a bad investment.” Simply driving a car out of the dealership to Continue Reading
Then and Now: The Crisis of the 1970s and the Upheaval of the 2020s
AAYUSH SINGH – MARCH 15 2022 EDITOR – MILLIE KHOSLA When the world came to a screeching halt in March of 2020 because of the coronavirus pandemic, economic policy seemingly Continue Reading
The Hexagon
Of Symmetry, Cymatics, and Beauty: The Hexagon I was sitting alone in a church, letting the stillness and silence filter in, when I felt the power that acoustics, beauty, and Continue Reading
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