High Price, Low Price, Your Price, My Price
Consumer advocate Lindsay Owens C’06 is leading the charge to protect Americans from the depredations of “surveillance pricing.” Wharton marketing professor Z. John Zhang thinks a ban would hurt the very people it means to help. Fresh off testifying at a Senate Judiciary subcommittee hearing on the issue, the alumna and professor go toe-to-toe debating what Congress should do next.
Rethinking US Fiscal Policy
Penn Wharton Budget Model proposes policy reforms.
Slow Burn
Q&A on SP2 economist R. Jisung Park’s Slow Burn.
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?
Not Made in China
Why the US trade deficit with China is not what it seems.
Endowment Loses Less; On Target to Make History
Latest on Penn and the economy
Run on the (Virtual) Banks
Paul Krugman on the “debt deflation” recession
Despite Downturn, Firm Commitment to Greater Access
The latest on Penn and the economy
Wharton Professor on Iraq: When the Oil Flows, So Follow Jobs and Social Progress
Oil flows will lift Iraq (eventually).
View from the Top: Clinton on the New Economy
Clinton speech opens Granoff Forum