Pay Transparency
HANNAH SHIOHARA – NOVEMBER 21ST, 2022 EDITOR: KATHERINE MCKERNAN Pay transparency, which refers to the degree of openness between a company and its employees about how much people are compensated, and Continue Reading
A Bird’s Freedom: Musk’s Takeover of Twitter and its Economic/Social Impact
SID GUPTA – NOVEMBER 18TH, 2022 EDITOR: FELIX ZHANG A decade ago, Twitter’s future was looking bright. The company was benefiting from a flood of funding into the social-networking space, eventually 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
Co-ops vs Firms: Different Sides of the Same Market Coin
EVAN DAVIS- NOVEMBER 14TH, 2022 EDITOR: ABBY MORRIS PROJECT LEAD: SAM QUATTROCIOCCHI Imagine you walk into work one day. At your old job, you’d be greeted by your boss, who 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
The Future of Cooperatives: Policy and Sectors in Need
JACOB HEISLER – NOVEMBER 14TH, 2022 EDITOR: DENYSE CHAN Introduction In today’s market society, the dominant business structure consists of capitalist firms. The classic structure of capitalist companies prioritizes achieving Continue Reading
What Patagonia’s Donation Shows Us About American Philanthropy
GRIFFIN SHUFELDT – NOVEMBER 10TH, 2022 EDITOR: PALLAVI MURTHY Introduction In September of this year, almost the entirety of a multibillion-dollar company was given away. In an unprecedented move, Yvon Continue Reading
Twenty Years Later: An Evaluation of the Acid Rain Program of 1990
JONATHAN LI – NOVEMBER 9TH, 2022 Abstract This paper attempts to find the causal effect of phase II of the Acid Rain Program’s on SO2 emissions from US power plants Continue Reading
Fall 2022 High School Essay Contest
Berkeley Economic Review is now accepting submissions for our High School Essay Contest! This semester, we have picked a multifaceted prompt and will be publishing the winning submission in the upcoming issue of our Continue Reading
RetroSPACtive: just what were SPACs, anyway?
AIDEN CURRAN – NOVEMBER 1ST, 2022 EDITOR: LORENE LI If you were unfortunate enough to be a regular consumer of business-related news throughout 2021, you may have noticed a common Continue Reading