Restructuring competition: The Biden executive order and beyond Antitrust experts from Penn reflect on the significance and likely consequences of the Biden Administration’s approach to competition policy.
President Joe Biden recently issued a sweeping executive order calling for 72 new actions by the federal government aimed at increasing market competition and strengthening antitrust enforcement.
In announcing his executive order, President Biden made it clear he was seeking to change the rules by which the U.S. economy operates: “We’re now 40 years into the experiment of letting giant corporations accumulate more and more power. I believe the experiment failed.”
To illuminate some of the potential consequences and implications of Biden’s executive order, the Penn Program on Regulation organized a panel discussion with three of Penn’s leading scholars of antitrust law and policy: Herbert Hovenkamp, the James G. Dinan Professor at the Univer
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My Climate Story The Penn Program in Environmental Humanities presents this screening of the short documentary film “My Climate Story.” The film features Philadelphia-area teachers and students discussing how they ve experienced climate change.
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Tuesday, July 13, 2021
The fellowship program for undergraduates connects their general education and major requirements to public engagement and community building through dialogue across differences.
Reconsiderations of past, present, and future in a new environmental humanities book Featuring contributions from scholars representing a range of disciplines, ‘Timescales: Thinking Across Ecological Temporalities,’ is an outgrowth of the Penn Program for Environmental Humanities.
For a geologist, 200 million years may seem like the blink of an eye. To a historian, the
18th century is still highly relevant. And to researchers grappling with climate change, future scenarios provide a compelling reason to act now.
In the new book, “Timescales: Thinking Across Ecological Temporalities,” Bethany Wiggin of the Penn Program in Environmental Humanities (PPEH) and co-editors Carolyn Fornoff and Patricia Eunji Kim, both alumnae of Penn and PPEH, bring together reflections from experts in a variety of academic disciplines on the relationships between past, present, and future and what that means for a planet in crisis.