ARSH VISHEN – DECEMBER 17, 2018 You’ve heard it before—economists all over the world have lambasted the President’s tariff initiatives. In fact, out of 60 economists surveyed by Reuters, not Continue Reading
KAT BLESIE – SEPTEMBER 14, 2018 Daniel Acland is a behavioral economist and Assistant Professor of Practice in Public Policy at UC Berkeley’s Goldman School of Public Policy. BER staff Continue Reading
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
