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Economics and World War II: Keynes Did Not “Get It Right”

EVAN DAVIS- DECEMBER 2, 2022 EDITOR: DENYSE CHAN What ended the Great Depression? If you answered World War II, you’d be in agreement with most. Even the U.S. government officially Continue Reading

Posted On : December 2, 2022 Published By : BER staff
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Rethinking Socialism

SAM QUATTROCIOCCHI – NOVEMBER 28, 2022 When you hear the word socialism, what image does it conjure in your mind? Do you think of something similar to the Soviet Union? Continue Reading

Posted On : November 28, 2022 Published By : BER staff
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Pioneers, Knights, and Guilds: History of the Cooperative Movement

RAMYA SRIDHAR, DHOHA BARECHE – NOVEMBER 17TH, 2022 EDITOR: GRIFFIN SHUFELDT, SELINA YANG PROJECT LEAD: SAM QUATTROCIOCCHI The Cooperative Movement began in the 19th century as a response to the Continue Reading

Posted On : November 17, 2022 Published By : BER staff
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That Joke Isn’t Funny Anymore

 ZACHARY HAGEN-SMITH– NOVEMBER 14TH, 2022 EDITOR: THOMAS GUZMAN Thomas E. Watson has a memorial in Atlanta, in a park across the street from the Georgia capitol building. The monument consists Continue Reading

Posted On : November 14, 2022 Published By : BER staff
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Socialism’s Economic Calculation Problem

EVAN DAVIS – October 31st, 2022 EDITOR: AAYUSH SINGH “Socialism… has a record of failure so blatant only an intellectual could ignore or evade it.” – Thomas Sowell When the Continue Reading

Posted On : October 31, 2022 Published By : BER staff
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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

Posted On : March 3, 2022 Published By : BER staff
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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

Posted On : February 18, 2022 Published By : BER staff
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So You Stole a Rembrandt… Now What?

RIA BHANDARKAR – DECEMBER 1, 2021 EDITOR: ATMAN MOHANTY Edward Munch’s The Scream is one of the most recognizable paintings of all time. Its subject, a ghost-like figure gasping with Continue Reading

Posted On : December 1, 2021 Published By : BER staff
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Retirement Accounts and Overworked Drivers: The Potential of Nudge Theory

VAIDEHI BULUSU – APRIL 8TH, 2021 EDITOR: SEAN O’CONNELL Achieving behavioral change is a puzzle that economists, environmentalists, psychologists, politicians, and public health professionals alike are trying to crack. The Continue Reading

Posted On : April 8, 2021 Published By : BER staff
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Do Better, But Empirically: How Effective Altruism Attempts to Optimize Our Generosity

CHAZEL HAKIM – APRIL 7TH, 2021 EDITOR: NORA GONG Picture this: One day you acquire a fortune of money from an inheritance. However, you decide to donate the money instead Continue Reading

Posted On : April 7, 2021 Published By : BER staff

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