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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

Posted On : March 3, 2021 Published By : BER staff
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Break A Leg (You’re Not Breaking Even)!: Broadway During the Pandemic

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

Posted On : March 1, 2021 Published By : BER staff
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The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly Produce Movement

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

Posted On : February 16, 2021 Published By : BER staff
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Looking Beyond the Unemployment Rate

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

Posted On : November 17, 2020 Published By : BER staff
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Will COVID-19 Speed Up the Death of the American Mall?

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

Posted On : November 9, 2020 Published By : BER staff
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Guns, Fees, Steel: The History of Payment Processors and Guns

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

Posted On : October 29, 2020 Published By : BER staff
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Is Antitrust Enforcement Effective?

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

Posted On : October 28, 2020 Published By : BER staff
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The FinCEN Files: Two Failures in International Banking

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

Posted On : October 21, 2020 Published By : BER staff
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The Repatriation of TikTok: Why is Washington Afraid?

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

Posted On : October 1, 2020 Published By : BER staff
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Who Owns Your Company?

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

Posted On : April 21, 2020 Published By : BER staff

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