Live to Work or Work to Live? Work Culture in the U.S. versus Europe
ARDA TUNCTURK – NOVEMBER 17TH, 2023 EDITOR: FELIX ZHANG Work. Work. And more work. Your boss calls you as the stacks of paper on your desk grow even bigger. You Continue Reading
Africa + China: The Belt and Road Initiative as an Outcome of Defense Policy
SAHIL JAISWAL – NOVEMBER 16TH, 2023 EDITOR: COLE YAP Introduction: From 1.2 Trillion in 2000 to 17.7 Trillion in 2021, China multiplied its GDP by a factor of 15 in Continue Reading
Can you afford kids? The Rising Costs of Children
WRITER: EMMA-JANE BURNS EDITOR: MICHAEL ATHANASSIADIS The average American family can now expect to spend over $300,000 raising a child to the age of 17 before including college tuition. Rising Continue Reading
The Housing Market Standoff: Why a Crash Isn’t on the Horizon and the Duel Between Supply and Demand
ALKIS TOUTZIARIDIS – NOVEMBER 7TH, 2023 EDITOR: LARA RAMIREZ The health of the housing market, often regarded as the pulse of the economy, is a pivotal component in shaping the Continue Reading
California Housing Crisis: a Necessary Crisis to Solve Amidst High Interest Rates
NELSON LAW – NOVEMBER 1ST, 2023 EDITOR: ARYAN SHAFAT What is a home to you? To some it’s a shelter, to others it is a safe haven for living comfortably and Continue Reading
Interview with Hilary Hoynes
PALLAVI MURTHY – OCTOBER 2, 2023 Interview conducted by Pallavi Murthy Professor Hilary Hoynes is a Professor Economic and Public Policy at Goldman School of Public Policy at UC Berkeley. Continue Reading
Applying Behavioral Economics to Marketing, Policy, and Beyond
ANGELA CHEN – SEPTEMBER 6, 2023 EDITOR: MAHATHI KATTAMURI The field of behavioral economics is experiencing an intellectual heyday as we speak; books such as Thinking, Fast and Slow and Continue Reading
Korea Continues to Be Stuck Between a Rock and a Hard Place
NITA SABOURI – APRIL 14TH, 2023 EDITOR: DENYSE CHAN On August 16th, 2022, Congress approved the Inflation Reduction Act (IRA), a new federal law that hopes to (you guessed it) Continue Reading
Is economic man really a rational agent?
DHOHA BARECHE – APRIL 6TH, 2023 EDITOR: ABIGAIL MORRIS Introduction In 1934, U.S. Congress passed the National Housing Act to stabilize the housing market after its collapse in the Great Continue Reading
Elections, Earthquakes, and Erdoğanomics: The Political Economy of Erdoğan’s War on Inflation
ESMA OZGUN – MARCH 14TH, 2023 EDITOR: GRIFFIN SHUFELDT As Turkey suffers from the destruction of the deadliest earthquake in decades, President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan will have to contend with Continue Reading