Econ 488

  For a representative republic, like the United States, to function as intended, citizens need to be able to vote for politicians who represent their own, subjectively determined, interests. Today, most rely on the news media to inform them, but,

Fashion has become a trillion dollar global industry.  In the United States alone, it contributes more than $250 billion to the economy. Recently, the industry has been experiencing a different type of trend – one toward fast fashion. Traditionally, apparel

In late April, Trump, in conjunction with Secretary of Commerce Wilbur Ross, initiated a probe into the nature of the US steel industry as well as into the global steel market. Articles from the Washington Post and Reuters indicate that

As the GOP has continually fought to develop a healthcare solution to replace the Affordable Care Act, new outlets and the upper blogosphere have become saturated with discussions of various possibilities and their implications.  While the Affordable Care Act never

The art market is considered by many to be the last great, unregulated market. However, this remains an unsettling fact; the market is plagued with information asymmetry, quasi-monopoly institutions, and high concentrations of wealth that result in paintings reaching $179

Popular rhetoric suggests that the health and revitalization of downtown districts are important for the development of cities. Since their formations in the early 20th century, downtowns have had peaks and troughs in importance due to the growing concentration of

A national 3 percent increase in charter school enrollment from 2004 to 2014 and President Trump’s recent 168-million-dollar proposed budget increase for charter schools have once again opened the ideological floodgates between charter school critics and proponents. However, parents and

As of January 2016, 121,678 people are waiting for life saving organs.  In the United States, the average person will wait anywhere from three to five years to receive a lifesaving organ, depending on their blood type (Organ Donation and

On the first Friday of each month, the Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS) releases a report entitled “The Employment Situation”, which offers details regarding the health of the U.S. labor market. The report is greatly anticipated for its headline “nonfarm