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Siddharth Gundapaneni

Senior Coordinator

Students For Liberty

Siddharth Gundapaneni is an Economics and Math major at Binghamton University. He is a Senior Coordinator at Students For Liberty. His research interests include, but are not limited to, monetary policy and asset bubbles, tax reform, spending restraint, and Public Choice Theory. In his free time he maintains a monthly blog on Substack titled “Macroscope – The Bigger Picture.

Twitter: twitter.com/MacroscopeEcon

Blog Posts

A tale of three Austrian entrepreneurship views

March 21, 2023
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Economics

While Austrian economists have made great contributions in many subdisciplines of economics, their critiques of mainstream views of entrepreneurship have received arguably the most praise. Modern-day finance and entrepreneurship classes even use Austrian ideas dating back to Carl Menger’s Grundsätze der Volkswirtschaftslehre (Principles of Economics).  But has Austrian Entrepreneurship Theory remained constant ever since? Well, throughout the 20th century, three views in particular developed that were distinct from each other. Below, we’ll analyze them; together, they suggest that

Can limited forms of welfare enhance freedom in the short term?

May 26, 2022
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Basic Economics

Following the Great Depression, the ideas of John Maynard Keynes rose to prominence as a means of mitigating widespread financial distress. He is seen as the progenitor of “soft socialism,” in the sense he provided intellectual credence to high levels of government spending and growth of the state.  Many of the free market reforms in the Western world in the 1980s were a conscious rebuttal of Keynesian policy, but Keynes’ influence was revived during the aftermath of the Great Recession in 2008.While the efficacy of his policy prescriptions remain controversial, there were some aspects

Marijuana taxation will undo the benefits of legalization

December 8, 2021
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Civil Liberties

As of December 2021, recreational marijuana is now legal in 19 states as well as Washington D.C., with the vast majority having legalized medical marijuana. A great triumph for liberty, you might think. However there are a few catches that have come with it… One of the things that makes marijuana the best choice for the first legalized drug is it cannot kill you. However, there has been an uptick in fatal cases of marijuana laced with synthetic opioids.  This comes from the fact users still purchase products from illegal markets; they already know their dealer, it’s