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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

Posted On : March 3, 2022 Published By : BER staff
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Of Costumes and Capital: Congo’s La Sape

KATERI MOUAWAD—03/01/2022 EDITOR: CHAZEL HAKIM Exotic vests, colorful slacks, and shoes with even more flamboyant patterns and colors. In the Democratic Republic of the Congo, the Société des Ambianceurs et Continue Reading

Posted On : March 1, 2022 Published By : BER staff
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Fall 2021 Undergraduate Contest- Runner Up

Congratulations to our Fall 2021 Undergraduate Essay Contest runner up, Ieva Varanauskaite! IEVA VERANAYSKAITE – FEBRUARY 22nd, 2022 Cryptocurrencies have quickly become a newly emerging asset class (Corbet et al.,2018) Continue Reading

Posted On : February 22, 2022 Published By : BER staff
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Fall 2021 Undergraduate Contest – Runner Up: Digital Assets: The case for Regulation

Congratulations to our Fall 2021 Undergraduate Essay Contest runner up, Akshar Katariya! AKSHAR KATARIYA– FEBRUARY 22nd, 2022 Digital assets such as Bitcoin give gold, fiat, and central bankers a run Continue Reading

Posted On : February 22, 2022 Published By : BER staff
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Fall 2021 High School Contest- Runner Up

Congratulations to our Fall 2021 High School Essay Contest runner up, Maxwell Guan! MAXWELL GUAN – FEBRUARY 22nd, 2022 Instead of improving the US credit rating and social welfare, the Continue Reading

Posted On : February 22, 2022 Published By : BER staff
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Fall 2021 High School Contest- Runner Up

Congratulations to our Fall 2021 High School Essay Contest runner up, Aditi Pavuluri! ADITI PAVULURI – FEBRUARY 22nd, 2022 Come December, politicians will once again be faced with funding a Continue Reading

Posted On : February 22, 2022 Published By : BER staff
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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

Posted On : February 18, 2022 Published By : BER staff
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Interview with Mauro Napoletano

ZACHARY HAGEN-SMITH – FEBRUARY 14TH, 2022 Professor Mauro Napoletano is a Professor of Economics at the University of Côte d’Azur and an Associate Research Fellow at OFCE-Sciences Po. His research Continue Reading

Posted On : February 14, 2022 Published By : BER staff
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Holding Higher Education Accountable

 JONATHAN LI – FEBRUARY 14, 2022 EDITER – RAKSHA SEN Part I: Trends in Tuition Costs  With US aggregate student debt amounting to $1.7 trillion, Congressional Democrats have mounted heavy Continue Reading

Posted On : February 14, 2022 Published By : BER staff
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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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