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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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In the Shadow of the Slump: The Depression of 1920-1921

DAVIS KEDROSKY – MARCH 18TH, 2021 EDITOR: RAINA ZHAO Overshadowed by the Wall Street Crash of 1929, the Depression of 1920-1921 appears, if at all, as a footnote to the Continue Reading

Posted On : March 18, 2021 Published By : BER staff
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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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