The American Austerity Playbook
VASANTH KUMAR – MARCH 4TH, 2021 EDITOR: ALLY MINTZER In his 2012 bid for the American presidency, Senator Mitt Romney’s core economic plan was to cut taxes by $4.8 trillion and Continue Reading
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
The Macroeconomics of Happiness: A Case Study of Bhutan
CHAZEL HAKIM – MARCH 2ND, 2021 EDITOR: SEAN O’CONNELL Situated deep in the eastern Himalayan mountains, Bhutan is often overshadowed by its more prominent neighbors: China and India. But, despite Continue Reading
Fed Accounts and the Right to Save
VASANTH KUMAR – FEBRUARY 15TH, 2021 EDITOR: CHAZEL HAKIM The great banking innovation of the 20th century was deposit insurance, a policy that ended the bank runs that had plagued Continue Reading
Rethinking Pareto Efficiency
ALLY MINTZER – DECEMBER 3RD, 2020 EDITOR: COURTNEY FUNG If you have ever taken an introductory economics course, there’s a good chance you learned about Pareto efficiency. If you haven’t—or Continue Reading
The Evolution of Biden’s China Policy: What It Might (or Might Not) Mean for US-China Trade
SZE YU WANG – NOVEMBER 23RD, 2020 EDITOR: RAINA ZHAO On September 30, the two candidates for the president of the United States faced off in an ugly, chaotic debate. Continue Reading
COVID-19: The Role of Culture in Social Distancing and Infection Rate
GRACE JANG – OCTOBER 27TH, 2020 EDITOR: ABHISHEK ROY Background Since the first outbreak of COVID-19 in Wuhan, China, the pandemic has reached and spread across other countries at different speeds. Continue Reading
Would Free Market Capitalism Make People Wealthy and Free?
JEFF SUZUKI – SEPTEMBER 15TH, 2020 EDITOR – RAINA ZHAO Across the United States, economics groupies, usually young, white, and male, saunter around college campuses with Ayn Rand’s Atlas Shrugged Continue Reading
Is the Next Global Depression Imminent?
SAVR KUMAR – MARCH 12TH, 2020 Continue Reading
Economics of Abundance
OLIVIA GINGOLD – MARCH 10TH, 2020 EDITORS: CHAZEL HAKIM, ANDREW BABSON We’ve all been there before: you are digging around in your fridge for that jar of jelly to put on Continue Reading