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
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
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
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
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
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
What Numbers Don’t Know: The Broken Economics Behind America’s War in Vietnam
ZACHARY HAGEN-SMITH – MARCH 3, 2022 EDITOR: MEHUL SACHDEV If there’s one thing Mai Huy Du knew, it was that the People’s Army would take him. No matter their age Continue Reading
Of Costumes and Capital: Congo’s La Sape
KATERI MOUAWAD—03/01/2022 EDITOR: CHAZEL HAKIM Exotic vests, colorful slacks, and shoes with even more flamboyant patterns and colors. In the Democratic Republic of the Congo, the Société des Ambianceurs et Continue Reading
Spaces of Religious Co-Existence
KATERI MOUAWAD – FEBRUARY 18TH, 2022 EDITOR: CHAZEL HAKIM Nine years ago, I took a gondola up to Harissa, Lebanon, and found myself looking down on Jounieh’s picturesque Mediterranean coastline. Continue Reading
Interview with Mauro Napoletano
ZACHARY HAGEN-SMITH – FEBRUARY 14TH, 2022 Professor Mauro Napoletano is a Professor of Economics at the University of Côte d’Azur and an Associate Research Fellow at OFCE-Sciences Po. His research Continue Reading