4/16
Penn in the News
A round-up of Penn mentions in local, national, and international media.
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The cost of the Fed’s challenged credibility
In an op-ed, Mohamed A. El-Erian of the Wharton School writes that the Federal Reserve is scrambling to catch up with financial realities, with a great deal of damage already inflicted by recent monetary policy.
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Why won’t Eastern Europeans get vaccinated?
Kristen Ghodsee and Mitchell Orenstein of the School of Arts & Sciences wrote about vaccine skepticism in Eastern Europe, which they attribute to the social consequences of communism’s collapse, rather than to the legacy of communism itself.
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Will women overthrow Europe’s last dictator?
Mitchell Orenstein of the School of Arts & Sciences and Valery Yakubovich of the Wharton School wrote about the role of Belarusian women in challenging Aleksandr Lukashenko, the country’s first and only president since 1994.
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What Europe’s populist right is getting right
Mitchell Orenstein of the School of Arts and Sciences wrote an op-ed analyzing the success of authoritarian nationalist candidates in European politics, which he attributes to their support for economic policies that “benefit average people.”
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A Papal Education
Daniel Wagner of the Graduate School of Education pens an op-ed on what can be learned from Pope Francis’ visit to the United States.