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Michael Mandel
Senior fellow at the Wharton School at the University of Pennsylvania and Chief Economic Strategist at the Progressive Policy Institute in Washington DC. Author of M: Economics, The Basics.
In this episode of the Econ Café 2020/21 podcast, textbook authors Michael Mandel and Sean Flynn explain the July 2020 Gross Domestic Product (GDP) report, and what it means for the economy and for economics students. This GDP report described…
In this episode of the Econ Café 2020/21 podcast, we talk with Martha Field, co-author of Environmental Economics: An Introduction, about the pandemic’s impact on the environment. Martha described how we effectively have been part of an expansive, unplanned experiment. The…
The pandemic has plunged the economy into a COVID Recession. In this episode of the Econ Café 2020/21 podcast, Mike Mandel and Sean Flynn discuss why the COVID Recession is different from the Great Depression of 1929, and how government…
Whole Foods announced on May 20 it would stop offering plastic straws in all of its stores. Other companies such as Starbucks and McDonald’s are taking the same steps. Meanwhile, some states and cities, including San Francisco and Seattle, are…