Fighting Poverty With Cash
Several decades since the last big income experiment was conducted in the US, School of Social Policy & Practice assistant professor Amy Castro Baker has helped deliver promising data out of Stockton, California, about the effects of giving people no-strings-attached money every month. Now boosted by a new research center at Penn that she’ll colead, more cities are jumping on board to see if guaranteed income can lift their residents out of poverty. Will it work? And will policymakers listen?
Inequality Economics
Tax the rich! And the poor. But not the way we do it now, nor necessarily for the usual reasons. As an economist pushing his field to grapple with inequality, Wharton’s Benjamin Lockwood may change the way you think about the government’s broadest power.
Beyond Labor: A Missing Piece in the Immigration Debate
Wharton study: immigrants boost investment and entrepreneurship.
Economic Miracle—and Money Pit?
What’s wrong with the domestic Chinese stock market?
The Single-Payer Problem
Wage stagnation linked to dearth of employers.
Prophet of Prosperity
Simon Patten, who led the Wharton School during the Progressive Era, was a pioneer of the economics of abundance, theorist of the second industrial revolution, and intellectual godfather of the New Deal. His descent into obscurity poses provocative questions about how the field has evolved.
Giving Back
Report puts Penn economic impact at $14 billion statewide.
Workers of the World, Adapt!
After 30 years in the trenches, Andy Stern has become the labor movement’s rising star. But can he change unions fast enough to save them?
Penn Puts the Wealth in Commonwealth
University’s economic impact put at $9.6 billion a year
Storm Warning
America’s economic system is facing ugly weather—but there’s still time to avoid it.
Man in a Hurry
Former New Orleans mayor and current president and CEO of the National Urban League Marc Morial C’80 is on a mission to reclaim the organization’s role as the economic voice of black and urban America and of all those who are “weak, disadvantaged, and dispossessed.”
View from the Top: Clinton on the New Economy
Clinton speech opens Granoff Forum
Economic Impact Study Shows Penn’s Muscle
The University's impact on the region
The Invisible Hand Returns
How much is Adam Smith worth?