Turning Up the Heat: How Climate Risks Are Shaping Investment Strategies
This summer, the 22nd of July marked the hottest day recorded on Earth (Copernicus Climate Change Service, 2024) . In fact, the...
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Research
Elias Griepentrog
- Jul 26
- 5 min
Navigating Nonlinear Dynamics in the Economy: The Impact of Job Openings on Unemployment
The Federal Reserve embarked on an aggressive tightening cycle in 2022, raising interest rates from nearly 0% to a range between 5.25%...
Rostra Economica
- Jul 19
- 2 min
Make your work visible by publishing in the Rostra Thesis Series!
Did you put a lot of effort into your thesis, did you reach interesting conclusions, or did you explore a novel concept in your subject...
Kawtar Rettab
- May 15
- 9 min
Metaverse: Exploring Business Opportunities and Cryptocurrency Trends
A pair of digital Nike shoes were sold for 134k. A box of virtual land, $4.3 million. Why?
Juanita Bloomfield
- May 2
- 2 min
How Nudges Can Shape Parenthood: Interventions on parental involvement and child-caregiver interactions
Family environments in the first years of life are key to a child's development. Recent evidence in the field of behavioral economics...
Davide Pace
- Feb 15
- 5 min
Can Carbon Label Help Fighting Climate Change?
It is just before 13.00. Hungry, you rush to the UvA canteen after a long class. Same steps and same classmates as many other days, but...
Santiago Mengual
- Oct 16, 2023
- 20 min
Monke and Capital: Exposition on the Systems of Labour
In the evolutionary timeline, it is not easy to get around the means by which certain evolutionary artefacts have attached themselves to...
John Gatev
- Oct 5, 2023
- 6 min
The Value of Timekeeping: A Reappraisal of Past and Current Meaning
Dalle AI Nine billionths of a second. A unit of measurement so accurate that, by comparison, a wristwatch becomes a blunt instrument for...
Santiago Mengual
- Jun 14, 2023
- 13 min
Quit Smoking: How Wealth is Built of Metaphysics and Cigarettes
There are many reasons why people struggle to quit smoking, but it almost always concerns a wrong understanding of how they perceive...
John Gatev
- May 16, 2023
- 4 min
The Myth Of Communications Artistry: Exploring The Value Of A Scientific Approach For Organisations
Within the rigidity of corporate structures, there is no function more ill-defined than that of communications. Conjuring images of...
Stella Botta
- Mar 11, 2023
- 4 min
Are protests at the UvA getting out of hand?
In the afternoon of Monday, January 16, 2023, dozens of UvA students and teachers occupied a university building. Their reason? Once...
Santiago Mengual
- Feb 27, 2023
- 9 min
The Future of Urban Living: What to Expect from Saudi Arabia's 'The Line'
‘The Line’. The envisioned utopia to be built in Saudi Arabia by 2030 in the shape of a straight line, promises many things: 1) driven by...
John Gatev
- Jan 23, 2023
- 5 min
Why Unicorns Matter: Spas Kyosev On The Importance Of Storytelling
Economic growth is a function of physical capital, human capital, and ideas – the factor that binds them into output. A simple yet...
Sanjana Majumdar
- Oct 31, 2022
- 4 min
The Destructive Growth of UvA: an Overview of the Effects
Protest against the University of Amsterdam’s growth, October 13, 2022. The “Tragedy of the Commons”, is a socio-economic concept that...
Yazan Azab
- Oct 19, 2022
- 3 min
Sisyphus, Suicide and the Search for Meaning
“There is only one really serious philosophical problem, and that is suicide” – Albert Camus 800,000 people committed suicide in 2020,...
Sanjana Majumdar
- Oct 14, 2022
- 3 min
The Destructive Growth of UvA: an Overview of Causes
Protest against the University of Amsterdam’s growth, October 13, 2022. Alejandro was just like any other student, wanting to pursue his...
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