Structural Integrity

We at the Chicago Policy Review seek to start a policy discussion on the theme of Structural Integrity. Over the last few decades, inefficient social and financial investments have compounded a plethora of policy issues like income inequality, housing, food insecurity, environmental damage, and the student debt crisis. Policymakers myopically focus on the immediate returns of their decisions and over-discount or underestimate the implications for the future.

Articles in this series will analyze the macro and microeconomic consequences of these decisions. Our goal is to highlight the need for policymakers to focus on developing policies that sustain grassroots communities while ensuring the health of the global economic order.