Robert Pollin, professor of economics and co-director of the Political Economy Research Institute (PERI), is the author of the forthcoming Back to Full Employment (MIT Press).
Spending the same money on education, or clean energy, would bring many more jobs—among other benefits.
It’s not only bad politics for states to use budget crises to bust unions—it’s also bad economics.
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Inequality has risen under Republicans and Democrats when they’ve embraced neoliberalism.
The Obama administration's jobs proposals are on the right track, but the scope is nowhere near large enough for the crisis we face today.
Neoliberal capitalism is dead. But socialism isn't ready to take its place.
America's transformation to a clean-energy economy could merge the aims of environmental protection and social justice.
The economy needs a shot of public investment--and if it's green, the payoff will be greatest.
Lessons from a free-market critic on the contradictions of economic crisis.
This bailout doesn't have to cost $700 billion.
Spending on the war in Iraq is a job killer. Ending the war would be the real stimulus package.


