U.S. Ambivalence About Making Profits

U.S. Ambivalence About Making Profits

2019

How Much Profit is Too Much Profit?

Chris Esposito (Economics), Ruoyu Wu (Computer Science), and Sean Yoon (Masters, Decision Sciences) spent ten weeks building tools to investigate the historical trends of price gouging and excess profits taxes in the United States of America from 1900 to the present. The team used a variety of text-mining methods to create a large database of historical documents, analyzed historical patterns of word use, and created an interactive R Shiny app to display their data and analyses.

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(cartoon from The Masses July 1916)

Faculty Lead: Sarah Deutsch
Project Manager: Evan Donahue

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