Freedom, Markets, and Well-Being Fall 2022

Thesis Updates

Overview

Here are our thesis projects at the halfway point.

Kayla: the economics of child protection and foster care.

Kevin: (1) how are the different subfields of economics related to one another? (2) matching markets, such as dating apps.

Stella: how to ethically communicate climate information.

Will: (1) why is the American south overrepresented in high-brow literature? (2) Why do people care so much about sports?

Oliver: alternatives to GDP for measuring social progress (or decline).

August: (1) games and the attention economy (2) how can we encourage more human centered design?