The Lost Luxuries of Lacemaking
SELINA YANG- APRIL 24 2023 EDITOR: ABBY MORRIS While strolling through an art museum, the faces of history loom down as a cold reminder of the past. Visual appeal can Continue Reading
Beyond Rational Expectations: Alternative Behavioral Approaches to Economics
EVAN DAVIS – APRIL 13TH, 2023 EDITOR: ARYAN SHAFAT My best friend’s breathing was picking up as the sun set on the horizon. Our mountain biking trip was quickly about Continue Reading
Behavioral Economics Can Explain Why You Probably Shouldn’t Have Put Your New PS5 on Your Credit Card, But You Did It Anyways
NITA SABOURI – MARCH 20TH, 2023 EDITOR: MEGAN DHINGRA We’ve all been there: you see something you desperately want—the perfect limited edition designer handbag, an intricate figurine of your favorite Continue Reading
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
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
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
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
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
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
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