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Are Stock Buybacks Depressing Wages?

2021-02-11
By: Niclas Carlson
On: February 11, 2021

“Buybacks…are an important tool that businesses must have to reallocate excess capital” – Jamie Dimon, CEO, JPMorgan Chase & Co. Touted by proponents as a productive method of investing leftoverContinue Reading

Why Policies Should Measure Well-Being

2020-12-04
By: Simon Hwang
On: December 4, 2020

50 years ago, President Kennedy called for a better measurement of objective well-being in economic policy, yet we are still prioritizing GDP growth today. In his speech at the UniversityContinue Reading

A Deep Dive into Human-Centered Capitalism

2020-12-04
By: Luke Wiseman
On: December 4, 2020

The U.S. economy is outdated. It has begun to function improperly and it’s on the verge of ceasing to function at all. Don’t allow yourself to be tricked by historicallyContinue Reading

‘Contagion’ (2011) but in Real Life: An Economic Analysis of how the COVID-19 Pandemic has Impacted the U.S. Film Industry

2020-12-01
By: Varun Agrawal
On: December 1, 2020

The 2020 COVID-19 pandemic feels like it has been taken straight from a movie plot. It feels too grand to be true: entire economies and markets have come to anContinue Reading

College Sports During the Coronavirus Pandemic

2020-11-14
By: Yee Young Cher
On: November 14, 2020

College sports have become an important part of higher education in the United States; they play an important role in college culture, dorm life, and they bring in large amountsContinue Reading

How to Make WeWork Work

2020-01-11
By: Brian Casey
On: January 11, 2020

“We lose money on every sale but make it up in volume”. The old joke holds a painful kernel of truth: scale alone does not ensure profitability. This is aContinue Reading

A New Economic Landscape for College Sports

2020-01-11
By: Alexander Szabo
On: January 11, 2020

This October, in a landmark decision, the National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA) allowed college athletes to be paid for their own name and image through endorsements. The impetus for thisContinue Reading

WeWork’s IPO to Nowhere

2019-12-31
By: Brian Casey and Nolan Jones
On: December 31, 2019

With its initial public offering (IPO) scheduled to take place within months, the We Company (better known as WeWork) was about to realize the dream of technology startups everywhere: sellContinue Reading

The Negative Implications of Los Angeles’ Increasing Inequality

2019-04-03
By: Alexander Szabo
On: April 3, 2019

On a broad level, America is seeing rapid, widespread demographic shifts. But some areas are experiencing greater shifts than others. People of color will soon become the national majority, andContinue Reading

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Are Stock Buybacks Depressing Wages?

By: Niclas Carlson
On: February 11, 2021

Why Policies Should Measure Well-Being

By: Simon Hwang
On: December 4, 2020

A Deep Dive into Human-Centered Capitalism

By: Luke Wiseman
On: December 4, 2020

‘Contagion’ (2011) but in Real Life: An Economic Analysis of how the COVID-19 Pandemic has Impacted the U.S. Film Industry

By: Varun Agrawal
On: December 1, 2020

Hong Kong’s Housing Crisis

By: Julianne Cheah
On: November 15, 2020

College Sports During the Coronavirus Pandemic

By: Yee Young Cher
On: November 14, 2020

Complexity Economics

By: Alex Zhang
On: March 31, 2020

A Short Discourse on the Efficacy of and Ethics in Economic Teaching

By: Alex Zhang
On: March 31, 2020

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By: Brian Casey
On: January 13, 2020

How to Make WeWork Work

By: Brian Casey
On: January 11, 2020

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