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Continue reading →: Defining Power: Authoritariansm
Authoritarianism is a word that appears frequently in political talks, often used as an indicator for regimes that lack free and fair elections. I spent a lot of time at my last Model UN conference debating the differences between authoritarianism and democracy, and one thing that as a committee, we…
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Continue reading →: Critiques of the Circular Economy
I first learned about the concept of the Circular Economy at Wege Prize Highschool Collaborative Studio, a summer workshop that immerses student participants in the solving of complex “wicked” problems. It seemed like a flawless solution to the ever-growing problem of waste. After doing more research, I came across Reading…
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Continue reading →: Reading Between the Lines of Climate Economics
David Barker’s Reflection after Five Papers is a catalog of unanswered questions. Over 2022–2024 he published five critiques of influential studies claiming that higher temperatures reduce economic growth, invited responses from the original authors, and despite publicity of his work received none. I found this article to be critical and…
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Continue reading →: The Strategy behind Voluntary Greenhouse Gas Reduction
In 2004, Russia’s ratification of the Kyoto Protocol, an international treaty signed in 1997 that aimed to reduce greenhouse gas emissions to combat climate change, enabled the treaty to take effect. The United States declined to participate, citing projected economic costs and the absence of commitments from major developing countries…
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Continue reading →: E-Waste Management Approaches and the Case for EPR
In a world starting to focus on recycling and reuse, we often don’t think about what happens to our electronics after we’re done with them. In the article “Electronic Waste Management Approaches: An Overview” authors Kiddee, Naidu, and Wong present a global perspective of the growing e-waste crisis. They highlight…
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Continue reading →: Nonlinear Climate Impacts on the Economy and the Data That Shapes Them
Continuing on the same track as the last blog post, I read “Global non-linear effect of temperature on economic production” written by Stanford scholars Marshall Burke, Solomon M. Hsiang, and Edward Miguel called “Global non-linear effect of temperature on economic production.” This article explores the phenomenon that the effect of…
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Continue reading →: Is Climate Change Always Bad? A Closer Look at Economic Growth
As a society, many of us agree that climate change is a serious threat. However, according to the article “Temperature Shocks and Economic Growth: Evidence from the Last Half Century” by Harvard scholars Melissa Dell, Benjamin F. Jones, and Benjamin A. Olken, it is worth considering that climate change might…
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Continue reading →: Gold, Perception, and the Complexity of Market Signals
I recently came across an article called “The Federal Reserve’s Balancing Act Between Inflation and Growth” written by Frank Homles, the CEO of US Global Investors. This article explains soft landings in the economy– basically when the Fed manages to lower inflation without sending the economy into a recession. This…
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Continue reading →: Understanding the New Tariff Order
In April, the White House introduced a new reciprocal tariff measure to tackle the long-standing U.S. goods trade deficit. Many people worldwide have heard of President Donald Trump’s implementation of tariffs. To understand this policy at a deeper level, I went through and read the executive order as well as…
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Continue reading →: It’s All Connected: Economics and the Environment
I came across an article recently called “The Unspoken Truth: Economic Policy is Environmental Policy” by Donna Kohut where she explains that economic policies go hand in hand with environmental outcomes, even though they are often treated as separate issues. We tend to separate economic growth and environmental protection as…
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