Robert Pollin

Robert Pollin is Distinguished University Professor of Economics and founding Co-Director of the Political Economy Research Institute (PERI) at the University of Massachusetts, Amherst. His books include Back to Full Employment and, most recently, Climate Crisis and the Global Green New Deal: The Political Economy of Saving the Planet (co-authored with Noam Chomsky).

Articles

The Critical Role of BR’s Ideas

A message of support from Noam Chomsky and Bob Pollin.

Noam Chomsky, Robert Pollin

Neoliberalism’s Bailout Problem

Mainstream economics ignores the massive government interventions that “free market” capitalism requires.

Gerald Epstein, Robert Pollin

The Political Economy of Saving the Planet

An interview with Noam Chomsky and Robert Pollin on the climate crisis, COVID-19, and the future of environmental politics.

Noam Chomsky, Robert Pollin, C. J. Polychroniou

Greening the Global Economy

Greening the economy is not only possible but necessary: global economic growth depends on it.

Robert Pollin

Back To Full Employment

Full employment used to be an explicit goal of economic policy in most of the industrialized world. Some countries even achieved it. In Back to Full Employment, economist Robert Pollin argues that the United States—today faced with its highest level of unemployment since the Great Depressio—should put full employment back on the agenda.

Robert Pollin