
Revolutions for Whom?
Nov 1, 2019 & note that in many post-communist countries, GDP per capita remains below its level 30 years ago.
Kristen R. Ghodsee is Professor of Russian and East European Studies and a member of the Graduate Group in Anthropology at the University of Pennsylvania. She is the author of nine books, including Lost in Transition: Ethnographies of Everyday Life After Communism and Red Hangover: Legacies of 20th Century Communism.
Nov 1, 2019 & note that in many post-communist countries, GDP per capita remains below its level 30 years ago.
May 15, 2019 & warn that a new wave of prohibition portends a future of maternal death, bad sex, and wrecked relationships.
Huge fiscal and monetary stimulus programs have sparked a growing debate about whether advanced economies may sooner or later experience the sort of rapid price growth last seen a generation ago. While stimulus advocates point to current weak demand and the public’s deeply ingrained low-inflation expectations, anxious hawks fear that a new and dangerous global inflationary consensus may be taking hold.