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FACT:
ACCORDING TO QS RANKINGS, HARVARD UNIVERSITY IS THE BEST PLACE TO STUDY ECONOMICS
SPRING ISSUE
GRIFFENOMICS
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‘T
he Dismal Science’, a cruelly blunt
term coined by Victorian writer Thom-
as Carlyle to describe economics, re-
ally does not do the subject justice.
Given the
current economic situation, one could, howev-
er, be forgiven for assuming that economics is
presently steeped in doom and gloom, though
the truth is most certainly the opposite.
The aftermath of the credit crunch has
made it a very exciting time to be studying eco-
nomics. The shocks of the past few years have
taught us that the economic models and theo-
ries of the future are yet to be written and that
current economics students may well be the
ones to write them.
With this inaugural issue of Grienomics,
we have aimed to make economics accessible
to everyone, from the intelligent economist
to the bemused outsider. Our hardy team of
economics students have produced essays and
articles that define the fundamental nature of
economics for those who have been too afraid
to introduce themselves before, from works
that cast a light on undisclosed business strat-
egies, to more advanced works that chart the
rise and fall of various empires. Also, we ex-
plore various topics that have sparked con-
troversy, such as the timeless debate on the
eectiveness of austerity, or the more contem-
porary issue regarding the economic benefits
of the 2012 Olympic Games.
In fact, even if your interests lie somewhere
other than economics, there is certain to be
something in this issue for you, whether it in-
volves flicking through our articles on histori-
cal decline, the geographical nature of land-re-
form and industrialisation, or if it just means
skimming the pages for the info boxes, quote
collections or quick facts that lie on the bot-
tom of each article.
And so, before we lose your attention, we
invite you to take a look through our publica-
tion and maybe you will find that this ‘Dismal
Science’ isn’t really as uninviting as you would
have once thought. And maybe, just
maybe
, it
could actually be quite exciting.
— The Griffenomics Team
A LETTER FROM THE TEAM
A quick foreword to Griffenomics by the very people who made it
GRIFFENOMICS
NEWSPAPER
copy editors
LUKE SHEPHERD
LIAM FRAHM
contributors
NATHAN ALLABY
HENRY CHEUNG
WILL CLAMP-GRAY
HENRIK COX
LIAM FRAHM
JACK GU
HANJIN LO
NICKLAUS PANNU-YUON
ADAM PEARSON
LUKE SHEPHERD
WILLIAM TONG
chief editor
WILLIAM TONG
managing director
BEN PONNIAH
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