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Free market, free women?

By Christine Li · March 19th, 2015

Christine Li dissects the disparities in labour market outcomes between men and women.

Behavioural economics: a primer

By Guest · March 16th, 2015

The rational man is known well to any classical economist, writes Philip Grossman. But his devilish counterpart, the irrational man, is uncharted territory. Enter behavioural economics.

In defence of models

By Yannis Goutzamanis · March 11th, 2015

Perhaps not so glamorous as the ones on the runway, economic models often get a bad wrap. Yannis Goutzamanis analyses some well-known and much used models and gives his take.

Revisiting Gross Domestic Product

By Anisha Kidd · January 14th, 2015

Anisha Kidd asks why such an incomplete measurement of our progress as a people forms the centrepiece of our public sphere.

Inequality from a different Engel

By Daniel Tan · December 9th, 2014

Inspired by last semester’s encounter with Engel’s Law, Daniel Tan posits an unsettling conjecture about income inequality and the future of consumption growth

Democracy: as easy as one, two, three

By Danny Wang · October 17th, 2014

Danny Wang uncovers the factors crucial to sustaining successful democracies.

Debunking the paradox of thrift

By Chandan Hegde · October 15th, 2014

Chandan Hegde offers an Austrian take on whether the paradox of thrift and its accompanying Keynesian policies are appropriate.

The Environmental Kuznets Curve: fact or fiction?

By Yannis Goutzamanis · August 23rd, 2014

Yannis Goutzamanis considers the relationship between economic growth and environmental outcomes. Consideration of this relationship requires an examination of the controversial environmental Kuznets curve.