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Chennai: ‘ESG becoming a key factor for investment’

Itay Goldstein of the Wharton School is quoted on an increase in the number of green investors.

Is a recession inevitable?

Itay Goldstein, a professor of finance and economics at the Wharton School, talks about the state of the U.S. economy with inflation at a 40-year high.

Is ‘greedflation’ rewriting economics, or do old rules still apply?

Z. John Zhang of the Wharton School says that inflation is an opportunity for every firm to realign their prices as much as they can.

Kim Bowes and the cover of her book The Roman Peasant Project 2009-2014 with an illustration of a small wooden house in the country with a tree

Q&A

Regular folks in the Roman Empire

Kimberly Bowes of the School of Arts & Sciences focuses on the lived experience of the Roman Empire’s working poor and the economies that dominated their lives 2,00 years ago.

Wendy’s is getting a shake-up—again

Emilie Feldman of the Wharton School comments on an activist investor who drives very positive change within companies, at least from a shareholder-value perspective.

Ethan Kallett standing outside on a sidewalk

May graduate Ethan Kallett named a 2022 Yenching Scholar

Ethan Kallett has been awarded full funding to pursue an interdisciplinary master’s degree in China studies, with a concentration in economics and management, at the Yenching Academy of Peking University in Beijing.

What I’ve learned: Wharton’s Anita Summers

Professor emeritus Anita Summers talks about her groundbreaking career in economics and public policy, and why integrity and evidence go hand in hand.

African American person sitting outside on a college campus with books and a backpack.

Indicators report shows escalating disparities for students of color and poor students

Report from The Pell Institute and PennAHEAD highlights stark differences in debt burden and benefits of higher education among ethnic groups that has significantly widened in recent years.

Reading the Federal Reserve minutes can feel like hours, but Fed watchers still pore over them

Peter Conti-Brown of the Wharton School says that Federal Reserve meeting minutes are deliberately written in code.

U.S. closes loophole for Russian debt payments

Philip Nichols of the Wharton School says it’s not clear what Western holders of Russian bonds have done in the weeks since the invasion.

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