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Hello! My name is Brooke Whitcomb. I study Economics and Conuter Science at Davidson College in North Carolina. This is a personal website to showcase my academic projects, op-eds, and creative writing. My interests include sustainability, economics, and economic policy. Please reach out to me at brwhitcomb@davidson.edu.
The money market fund market is a central part of the US economy — Americans have roughly $5 trillion invested in money market funds (MMF). The Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) proposes new regulations to prevent investors from fleeing MMF instruments during financial crises such as the recessions in 2008 and 2020. Interest rates were …
This is an academic paper for Computational Economics Course at Davidson College with Dr. Shyam Gouri Suresh. Written December 10th 2021. Introduction Climate change is a severe global problem that needs to be addressed immediately. Fashion – especially fast fashion – is a significant contributor to environmental degradation. Research by McKinsey & Co. indicates that …
This is an academic paper for Computational Economics Course at Davidson College with Dr. Shyam Gouri Suresh. Written November 12th 2021. This paper was a group project with Clay Tribus ’22 and Sam Cascio ’22. Introduction Creole languages are a type of language that emerges when groups of people who do not share a common …
This is an academic paper for Computational Economics Course at Davidson College with Dr. Shyam Gouri Suresh. Written December 10th 2021. This paper was a group project with Clay Tribus ’22 and Sam Cascio ’22. “In order to be irreplaceable one must always be different.” — Coco Chanel Introduction In general, fashion trends originate with …
Reporting is fundamental to maintaining goals — It helps to build clarity around expectations and goals right from the beginning. As the adage goes, what gets measured gets managed, and when done well reporting helps Davidson achieve benchmarks towards clear goals. Davidson College’s Climate goal is carbon neutrality in 2050. Reporting is not the goal. …
This is an academic project for the Computational Economics course at Davidson College with Dr. Professor Gouri-Suresh. This is a group project with Sena Hur, Ian Rolls, and Brooke Whitcomb written on 21st October 2021 Introduction Mycorrhizal fungi are known to sustain all terrestrial ecosystems by transferring vital resources through root networks (Watkinson 2015, Simard …
This is an academic paper for the Computational Economics course at Davidson College, with Dr. Shyam Gouri Suresh. This is a group project with Brooke Whitcomb, Sreylin Touch, Satyajit Banerjee. Written on 28th September 2021. Introduction US citizens have yet to come to a consensus on whether or how to regulate guns despite the high …
this is an op-ed on Social Security Reform Social Security is the largest and most successful government program. It affects every American. It is also in crisis. The Social Security trust fund is estimated to be depleted by 2035, resulting in an across-the-board 20% reduction in benefits regardless of age or income. Although the 20% …
This is a paper analyzes Biden’s infrastructure plan using two schools of thought: Classical economics and the Keynesian model. This is part of a final in ECO 205 Macroeconomics at Davidson College with Dr. Gouri Suresh Biden’s infrastructure plan would increase government spending significantly on infrastructure projects such as highways, bridges, transportation systems, electric grids, …
This is a co-written paper for an economics independent study with Joe Craven, and Dr. Gouri Suresh at Davidson College co-written with Michaela Gibbons and Bryce Kalsu Introduction According to scholar and activist Ibram X. Kendi, an antiracist policy is “any measure that produces or sustains racial equity between racial groups” (2019). In his book, …
