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
China’s Ironfisted Post-COVID Recovery
SZE YU WANG – FEBRUARY 18TH, 2021 EDITOR: PALLAVI MURTHY In August last year, crowds of maskless partygoers packed into Wuhan Maya Beach Water Park to attend an electronic music Continue Reading
How A Broken US Non-Profit System Facilitated Anti-Abortion Law in Poland
ANI BANERJEE – FEBRUARY 17TH, 2021 EDITOR: SEAN O’CONNELL In over one hundred and fifty cities in Poland, people have been defying pandemic restrictions, gathering to march in the streets, 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
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
Universal Housing Vouchers: The Biden-Harris Plan that Could Cut Poverty Rates in Half
JENNIFER JACKSON – NOVEMBER 11TH, 2020 EDITOR: KAT XIE On the crowded stage of the February Democratic Primary debates, candidates rolled out their housing agendas for their potential term as Continue Reading
What It Takes to Win a Seat: Campaign Economics in the Trump Era
EKATERINA YUDINA – NOVEMBER 5TH, 2020 EDITOR: SEAN O’CONNELL With the 2020 election cycle having approached it’s conclusion, we can look back at how various campaigns across the country frantically Continue Reading
Guns, Fees, Steel: The History of Payment Processors and Guns
AISHANI BANERJEE – OCTOBER 29TH, 2020 EDITOR: RAKSHA SEN On February 12, 2020, PayPal announced an unlikely partnership. Criminologists at the Crime Lab at the University of Chicago and the Continue Reading
Dancing with the Dragon: An Economic History of Taiwan’s China Policy
SZE WANG – 27TH OCTOBER 2020 EDITOR: LUCIA DARDIS We live in a time where politicians and entire governments group themselves based on their stance on Chinese trade. Emerging markets Continue Reading