Recent Essays
Could the USSR Have Survived if not for WW2?
This essay will explore the successes and failures of Stalin’s economic model, focusing on the First, Second and Third Five-Year Plans.
By examining industrial output, it will argue that while Stalin’s economy was fraught with inefficiencies, without the push for rapid industrialization during the First and Second Five-Year Plans, the Soviet Union would not have been able to rapidly alter industrial output to support the war effort during the Third Five-Year Plan.
Economic Hindsight: The State of the U.K. Economy post-COVID-19 and Post-Russia-Ukraine War
In 2024, whilst a member of the Emory Economics Review (EER), I chose to re-analyze an article published in 2022 by the BBC, two years after my first analysis of the article.
In this analysis, I studied the accuracy of The Bank's predictions and what the impact of increasing interest rates on the economy was two years after economic slowing as a result of COVID-19 and the Russo-Ukrainian war.
Increasing Interest Rates in the UK
I wrote the first of my three economic commentaries focusing on a microeconomic issue from the last 6 months. Using a published article from a news article, it was my job to analyse said article through the lens of a key topic given by the International Baccalaureate (IB).
For this 2022 article from the Financial Times, I focused on sustainability since it was discussing agricultural subsidy reforms following Brexit.