Interview with Ben Harrell
APRIL 26TH, 2023 Ben Harrell is a postdoctoral researcher at Vanderbilt’s LGBT Policy Lab. He is an applied microeconomist whose work focuses on health economics, LGBT economics, public economics, and Continue Reading
Interview with Professor Daniel Acland
DANIEL ACLAND- APRIL 25TH, 2023 EDITOR: ABBY MORRIS Daniel Acland is a Behavioral Economist and Associate Adjunct Professor at UC Berkeley’s Goldman School of Public Policy. BER staff editor Abby Continue Reading
Interview With Neil Fligstein
Neil Fligstein is the Class of 1939 Chancellor’s Professor and Co-Chair of the Network for a New Political Economy. He is especially interested in the fields of economic sociology, organizational Continue Reading
The Lost Luxuries of Lacemaking
SELINA YANG- APRIL 24 2023 EDITOR: ABBY MORRIS While strolling through an art museum, the faces of history loom down as a cold reminder of the past. Visual appeal can Continue Reading
Interview with Nicolas Depetris Chauvin
APRIL 24, 2023 Nicolas Depetris Chauvin is a visiting professor at UC Berkeley who is currently the Professor of International Economics at the Geneva School of Business Administration. Hailing from Continue Reading
Econ 1 Class Review
FELIX ZHANG – APRIL 20TH, 2023 Every Berkeley economics journey must start somewhere, and for most students, that takes place in the friendly confines of Econ 1. The course covers Continue Reading
Econ 100A Class Review
JACOB HEISLER – APRIL 20TH, 2023 Econ 100A (Microeconomics) is one of three required upper division Economics courses for Econ majors alongside Econ 100B (Macroeconomics) and Econ 140 (Econometrics). Microeconomics Continue Reading
Econ 100B: A Rundown
RAMYA SRIDHAR – APRIL 20TH, 2023 In Spring of 2022, I took the Econ 100B Macroeconomics course with Raymond Hawkins. I found it to be a very enlightening course with Continue Reading
Econ 131 and 133 Class Review
SAM QUATTROCIOCCHI – APRIL 20TH, 2023 Econ 131: Public Economics, and Econ 133: Global Inequality and Growth are the two most complementary classes I’ve taken at Berkeley. Our economics department Continue Reading
Staying Afloat: Developing Economies in the Age of Climate Change
FELIX ZHANG- APRIL 17, 2023 EDITOR: ABBY MORRIS The impact of climate change is not a matter of if, but when: since 1880, the average global surface temperature has risen Continue Reading