Dhruvi Singh Raghuwanshi | May 2022 COVID-19 has had a differentiated impact across nations. On a deeper analysis, it is evident that one of the biggest victims of the financial impact of the pandemic were …
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COVID-19’s Impact on Small Businesses
Riley Maszk | December 2021 Never before have we seen such a dynamic shift in normalcy until the global pandemic of the COVID-19 virus. With the hardships in losing our loved ones, facing disconnect with …
Geographic Variation in Treatment and Cost in Healthcare
Kelly Zhang | April 2021 It would seem ideal for all the world to have a single price for all people when they have health issues. However, that may never happen because there are many …
Americans Need an Insurance Mandate, They Just Don’t Know It Yet
| Ritika Punathil | May 18, 2020 | To understand whether the U.S. health insurance market is experiencing market failure, statistic, economic, and philosophical theory are all needed. The real challenge is determining what market …
The Digital Dump: Navigating China’s Informal Market of Electronic Waste
| Timmy Davenport | March 29, 2020 | Unsustainable waste production in the modern global context is a crisis of pandemic proportions. E-waste is a particular type of waste that covers digital devices such as …
The EU-UK Signaling Game
| Diquan Xian | May 9, 2019 | Since 2017 March, the United Kingdom has engaged in official withdrawal from the European Union so that it can preserve its policy-making authority especially over the movements …
The Effects of the Minimum Wage: A Short Survey for the Diligent Voter
| Zach Swaziek | May 9, 2019 | The minimum wage has been the focus of many public policy discussions recently. Tony Evers, the newly elected Governor of Wisconsin, announced in February that his budget …
A Land Tax: A Model for Effective Fiscal Policy
| Austin Schlueter | April 22, 2019 | In 1978, in his book Capitalism and Freedom, Milton Freidman espoused support for a new tax by uttering “the least bad tax is the property tax on …
Asymmetric Information and Test Optional College Admissions Policies
| Chrissy Ramakrishnan | December 18th, 2018 | Issues surrounding the use of standardized test scores for college admission have become particularly salient over the past decade. Many students view them as unfairly narrow assessments …
Jamal Khashoggi Murder Highlights U.S. Dependence on Saudi Oil
| Aaron Pawlinski | December 10th, 2018 | On October 2nd, 2018, Saudi-born journalist and U.S. resident Jamal Khashoggi was murdered in a consulate in Istanbul by Saudi officials. His death was the supposed result …