SETH BERTOLUCCI – DECEMBER 15, 2018 There’s almost no place that baffles economists more than Argentina. The South American nation began the 20th century among the wealthiest in the world, Continue Reading
VASSILISA RUBTSOVA – DECEMBER 13, 2018 In 1964, Look magazine published Norman Rockwell’s painting The Problem We All Live With as its centerfold. This powerful work portrays six-year old Ruby Continue Reading
JOSEPH NG – SEPTEMBER 19, 2018 Dmitry Taubinky is an assistant professor of economics at UC Berkeley and a faculty research fellow at the National Bureau of Economic Research. BER staff Continue Reading
VATSAL BAJAJ – NOVEMBER 30, 2018 John Maynard Keynes famously proposed a solution to lift the world economy out of the Great Depression in his 1936 book, The General Theory Continue Reading
JOSEPH NG – NOVEMBER 22, 2018 There is another side to one of the greatest economic turnarounds of the last few decades. China’s rapid economic growth has meant that a Continue Reading
KAT BLESIE – NOVEMBER 22, 2018 The United States has often seen powerful people preaching the importance of working hard and staying busy. Our “bully pulpit” president Theodore Roosevelt once Continue Reading
PARMITA DAS – NOVEMBER 22, 2018 Sexual Harassment Through the Lens of Economics Sexual harassment unfolds within the architecture of systemic abuse in which aspirations and dignity are regularly violated. Continue Reading
Berkeley Economic Review is raising money to print our magazine for this semester. Our goal is to spread our original economic research to the Berkeley community and beyond. We are Continue Reading
JOSEPH NG – NOVEMBER 8TH, 2018 In June of 2018, California banned soda taxes: Governor Jerry Brown signed Assembly Bill 1838, which prohibits local governments from imposing new taxes on Continue Reading
VASSILISA RUBTSOVA- NOVEMBER 7TH, 2018 There are far too many people that wear their self-appointed “socially liberal, fiscally conservative” label like a badge of honor. They often tell whoever is Continue Reading
