The American Austerity Playbook
VASANTH KUMAR – MARCH 4TH, 2021 EDITOR: ALLY MINTZER In his 2012 bid for the American presidency, Senator Mitt Romney’s core economic plan was to cut taxes by $4.8 trillion and Continue Reading
Minimum Wage and Unemployment: Is it time to break up with Neoclassical Economics?
JENNIFER JACKSON – MARCH 3RD, 2021 EDITOR: KAT XIE On January 14, amidst economic and social turmoil, incoming Continue Reading
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
Break A Leg (You’re Not Breaking Even)!: Broadway During the Pandemic
RIA BHANDARKAR – MARCH, 1ST, 2021 EDITOR: KALEY KRANICH Like any industry which relies on consumers being willingly stuck in an enclosed space for an extended period of time, musical Continue Reading
China’s Ironfisted Post-COVID Recovery
SZE YU WANG – FEBRUARY 18TH, 2021 EDITOR: PALLAVI MURTHY In August last year, crowds of maskless partygoers packed into Wuhan Maya Beach Water Park to attend an electronic music Continue Reading
How A Broken US Non-Profit System Facilitated Anti-Abortion Law in Poland
ANI BANERJEE – FEBRUARY 17TH, 2021 EDITOR: SEAN O’CONNELL In over one hundred and fifty cities in Poland, people have been defying pandemic restrictions, gathering to march in the streets, Continue Reading
The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly Produce Movement
Ria Bhandarkar – February 16, 2020 Editor: Aydin Maharramov The seemingly niche “ugly produce” industry exists at the intersection between environmental activism and agricultural economics. In the 2010s, new statistics Continue Reading
Fed Accounts and the Right to Save
VASANTH KUMAR – FEBRUARY 15TH, 2021 EDITOR: CHAZEL HAKIM The great banking innovation of the 20th century was deposit insurance, a policy that ended the bank runs that had plagued Continue Reading
Eradicating Immigration Incarceration: Economic Arguments in Favor of Immigration Prison Abolition
EKATERINA YUDINA – FEBRUARY 11TH, 2021 EDITOR: KALEY KRANICH Immigration reform is an incredibly contested contemporary policy issue, especially with increased concerns about reported inhumane conditions in immigration detention centers. A Continue Reading
Rethinking Pareto Efficiency
ALLY MINTZER – DECEMBER 3RD, 2020 EDITOR: COURTNEY FUNG If you have ever taken an introductory economics course, there’s a good chance you learned about Pareto efficiency. If you haven’t—or Continue Reading