A theoretical perspective By: Gisele Dewitt As a political economy major, my entire course of study has been to understand and critique neoclassical economics, especially the expansion of market culture. This has often made the topic of microeconomics difficult for me to…
By: Ashley Pandya Game theory, stock markets, and questions best left unanswered Against my better judgment, I’m a late sleeper. I have my justifications. It is in those groggy, 4AM, dear-God-won’t-somebody-please-knock-me-out-with-a-baseball-bat moments that I engage in my most potent self-sabotage.…
By Natalie Fujita Economics is popularly labeled the “dismal science”: the study of making boring, bleak predictions about the production, distribution, and consumption of wealth by agents in markets. And yet, my first experience with economics reveals a field with…
By Divya Chandrasekharan A catastrophic mistake to make when examining the transformation of sex work through the centuries is to take the common adage of “prostitution being the world’s oldest profession” at face value. This leads to the assumption that…
By Angela Thissen I don’t know about you, but I love being a woman. Well, at least most of the time. Recently, while listening to one of my lectures of ECON 133, a class on global inequality & growth, I…
By Natania Wong Watching the British government reel through a quick succession of prime ministers in the past few months has probably left unfamiliar American observers wondering– what is going on, and what will the future of the Conservative party…
By Olivia Fong As the title suggests, Rooney’s brilliant third novel, Beautiful World, Where Are You is about four young adults who weave in and out of each others’ paths, and how they grapple with the monotony of their lives…
By Erin Yi “Just wait until you’re 18. Then I’ll fly you to Korea and we’ll get your eyelids done.” As a young Korean girl, this phrase was repeated to me several times growing up. I was born with monolids,…
By: Madeline Darmawangsa High tax rates for the wealthy and increased government spending are increasingly being seen by the vocal majority as the clear-cut solution for wealth inequality within a country. Phrases like “eat the rich” have been circulating social…