PinnedSanctions and Human Rights: Why Economic Coercion Against Afghanistan Is Not Worth Its Human Toll…IntroductionAug 15, 2022Aug 15, 2022
PinnedAusterity, QE Infinity, and Fiscal Shocks: What Can Economics Learn From the Eurozone Crisis?IntroductionOct 25, 2022Oct 25, 2022
PinnedSimone de Beauvoir — The Second Sex[Context: The following is a short essay on Simone de Beauvoir’s 1949 “The Second Sex”, more specifically the chapter Childhood. De…Feb 26, 2021Feb 26, 2021
PinnedPoverty and Racial Wealth Disparities: Bridging the Gap by Expanding HomeownershipEradicating poverty not only constitutes a domestic challenge for the U.S. — the UN considers it to be its greatest global challenge.[1]…Jan 16, 2021Jan 16, 2021
Falsificationism in International Studies: Can We Learn from Karl Popper? (Year 2, semester 2)As recently illustrated by the reproducibility crisis within some disciplines, demarcating science with peer-reviewed and verifiable…Oct 25, 2022Oct 25, 2022
The Dollar Centrality Debate: Structural Power, Multipolarity, and Alternatives (YearGenoese and Venetian financial instruments occupied a central place in 15th-century European and Levantine commerce; a coveted symbolic…Mar 15, 2022Mar 15, 2022
JOVD Rubriek: “Nederland post-Shell: Egalite, Fraternite, Liberte?”“Werken voor je geld,” “bedrijven moeten vrij zijn,” menig JOVD’er heb ik dit soort uitspraken horen doen. Zoals gedemonstreerd door de…Dec 15, 2021Dec 15, 2021
U.S. Workforce Inequality: Gender, Norms and Institutions (Year 1, semester 2)Inequality is ubiquitous in contemporary economic discourse, and for good reason: studies link it to “soft” inefficiencies and even…Oct 14, 2021Oct 14, 2021
Algorithmic Abuse and International Accountability: Risks for Liberal Democracies (Year 1, semester…With the advent of algorithmic targeting, personalized advertisements have gone mainstream, turning digital advertising into a larger…Aug 3, 2021Aug 3, 2021
