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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

Posted On : March 2, 2021 Published By : BER staff
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Waves of Globalization: How Ships and the Sea Power Economic Development

DAVIS KEDROSKY – NOVEMBER 19TH, 2020 EDITOR: KAREENA HARGUNANI Commerce is a hallmark of civilizational development in histories of antiquity. The appearances of Greek coins in Egyptian coffers or Syriac Continue Reading

Posted On : November 19, 2020 Published By : BER staff
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Why Gum Is So Sticky

AISHANI BANERJEE – NOVEMBER 10TH, 2020 EDITOR: AYDIN MAHARRAMOV Introduction Two weeks into March of this year, the United States declared a national emergency. You can probably guess why.  You can Continue Reading

Posted On : November 10, 2020 Published By : BER staff
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Back When America Was Socialist

KONNOR VON EMSTER – OCTOBER 30TH 2020 EDITORS: KAT XIE, KAREENA HARGUNANI The 2016 election was a shock to many. In liberal parts of the country such as my own Continue Reading

Posted On : October 30, 2020 Published By : BER staff
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Upheaval: Plague, Peasants, and the Proletariat in 14th Century Europe

Writer: Davis Kedrosky – OCTOBER 13TH, 2020 Editor: Pallavi Murthy Contemporaries of the Black Death, the series of devastating plagues that peaked in Europe from 1347 to 1349, were understandably Continue Reading

Posted On : October 13, 2020 Published By : BER staff
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How (Not) To Pay For A Crisis

DAVIS KEDROSKY – SEPTEMBER 29TH, 2020 EDITOR: LUCIA DARDIS History is eerily symmetrical. Another recession is looming, and, as in 2009, the government is meeting it with a fiscal spending Continue Reading

Posted On : September 29, 2020 Published By : BER staff
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The Case of the Missing Japantown

AISHANI BANERJEE – SEPTEMBER 28TH, 2020 EDITOR: SEAN O’CONNELL   Introduction At the turn of the 20th century, Salt Lake City, Utah was doing well. Utah had recently passed the population Continue Reading

Posted On : September 28, 2020 Published By : BER staff
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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

Posted On : September 16, 2020 Published By : BER staff
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The Roots of Modernity: Energy Crises, Industrialization, and Technological Change

DAVIS KEDROSKY – APRIL 29th, 2020 EDITOR: SEAN O’CONNELL The England of legend is a land of forests. From Arthurian knights venturing through primeval groves to Robin Hood’s Sherwood raids, Continue Reading

Posted On : April 29, 2020 Published By : BER staff
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A Brief Economic History of Pandemics

ALLY MINTZER – APRIL 22ND, 2020 EDITOR: AMANDA YAO To say we live in uncertain and unsettling times would be an understatement. The coronavirus, or COVID-19, has taken countless lives Continue Reading

Posted On : April 22, 2020 Published By : BER staff

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