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The Rise and Fall of the Amazon Bookstores

PALLAVI MURTHY – APRIL 26, 2022 EDITOR: LARRY LIN In 2011, Borders Bookstores laid off 11,000 of its employees and shut down all its 400 stores. This was seen as Continue Reading

Posted On : April 26, 2022 Published By : BER staff
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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

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

Posted On : April 11, 2022 Published By : BER staff
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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

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

Posted On : March 24, 2022 Published By : BER staff
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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

Posted On : March 24, 2022 Published By : BER staff
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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

Posted On : March 18, 2022 Published By : BER staff
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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

Posted On : March 16, 2022 Published By : BER staff
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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

Posted On : March 15, 2022 Published By : BER staff
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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

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

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