Minimum Wage and Unemployment: Is it time to break up with Neoclassical Economics?
JENNIFER JACKSON – MARCH 3RD, 2021 EDITOR: KAT XIE On January 14, amidst economic and social turmoil, incoming Continue Reading
JENNIFER JACKSON – MARCH 3RD, 2021 EDITOR: KAT XIE On January 14, amidst economic and social turmoil, incoming Continue Reading
RIA BHANDARKAR – MARCH, 1ST, 2021 EDITOR: KALEY KRANICH Like any industry which relies on consumers being willingly stuck in an enclosed space for an extended period of time, musical Continue Reading
Ria Bhandarkar – February 16, 2020 Editor: Aydin Maharramov The seemingly niche “ugly produce” industry exists at the intersection between environmental activism and agricultural economics. In the 2010s, new statistics Continue Reading
VASANTH KUMAR – NOVEMBER 17TH 2020 EDITOR: KALEY KRANICH The September 2020 Jobs Report released by the Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS) offered a solid, if not rosy, image of Continue Reading
RIA BHANDARKAR – NOVEMBER 9TH, 2020 EDITOR: CHAZEL HAKIM Since the emergence of Amazon, eBay, and other online alternatives to in-person shopping, traditional retail has experienced a slow decline. Shopping Continue Reading
AISHANI BANERJEE – OCTOBER 29TH, 2020 EDITOR: RAKSHA SEN On February 12, 2020, PayPal announced an unlikely partnership. Criminologists at the Crime Lab at the University of Chicago and the Continue Reading
ALLY MINTZER – OCTOBER 28TH, 2020 EDITOR: KAT XIE Update: This article was written before the DOJ filed an antitrust lawsuit against Google on Oct 20th, 2020. In late September Continue Reading
VASANTH KUMAR – OCTOBER 21ST, 2020 EDITOR: SEAN O’CONNELL On September 20, BuzzFeed News published the FinCEN Files: an analysis of over 2,100 leaked Suspicious Activity Reports (SARs) submitted to Continue Reading
JENNIFER JACKSON – OCTOBER 1ST, 2020 EDITOR: ANDREW BABSON On August 3 at the White House, President Trump said TikTok would be “shut down” by U.S. authorities, citing national security Continue Reading
NICOLAS DUSSAUX – APRIL 21ST, 2020 EDITORS: JENNIFER JACKSON, PARMITA DAS Are financial institutions now leading the real economy rather than the opposite? Although some pundits seem to still differentiate Continue Reading