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By Aabid Firdausi. The euphoria around international trade and the general consensus regarding capitalism’s inevitable sustenance among countries of the Global South is at least partly due to the
By Steve Grumbine. Progressives Trigger warning: Compassion required. When is the last time you heard Greens, Berniecrats or Indie voters not acknowledge the distinct and pressing need for election
By Hannah Temple. It is difficult to get through a day without encountering the idea that we as a species and a planet are at some kind of a tipping
By Nikos Bourtzis. Much of the developed world has experienced stubbornly low real wage growth since the financial crisis of 2007. Currently, the British people are seeing their earnings
By Nikolaos Bourtzis. Monetary policy has become the first line of defense against economic slowdowns — it’s especially taken the driver’s seat in combating the crisis that began in 2007. Headlines
Data and statistics are everywhere, especially in economics. But we forget that empirical results are often manipulated, biased, or inconclusive. To ensure we design policies responsibly, we must meet empirical
A series of protests have begun to rock Lebanon as of mid-March 2017. Protesters are taking to the streets to denounce the Lebanese government’s plan to introduce or increase 22
In times of severe recession, cash can be hard to come by. To somewhat maintain their standard of living and avoid being further driven into poverty, some communities developed their
Whether they are implemented in Latin America (1970-90s), in the UK (under Thatcher) or in Greece (since 2012), austerity measures are all justified by the fact that “there is not
How should society manage its common-pool resources like fisheries, forests, and grasslands? The problem, as presented in an Econ 101 course, is that these systems lack the proper incentives for
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Aabid Firdausi
Alessandro Bonetti
Athullya Roytman
Baptiste Albertone
Brad Voracek
Breshay Moore
Carlos Maciel
Celine Tcheng
Chantal Line Carpentier
Christina Refhilwe Mosalagae
Daniella Medina
Domenico Viola
Diego Castañeda Garza
Elham Saeidinezhad
Hannah Dewhirst
Jack Gao
Jimmy Chin
Johnny Fulfer
Justin Harbour
Kanya Paramaguru
Kevin Cashman
Kurt Semm
Lara Merling
Mariamawit Fantahun
Michael Joffe
Oscar Valdes-Viera
Patrick Kaczmarczyk
Pierre Ortlieb
Raghunath Nageswaran
Selim Yaman
Sergio Chaparro Hernández
Shyam Soundarajan
Soo-hyun Lee
Stephanie Attar
Steve Grumbine
Vitor Mello
