Robert Pollin

Robert Pollin is a professor of economics and co-director of the Political Economy Research Institute (PERI) at the University of Massachusetts. His books include Contours of Descent: U.S. Economic Fractures and the Landscape of Global Austerity.

Currently

  • Be Utopian: Demand the Realistic

    March 9, 2009

    Neoliberal capitalism is dead. But socialism isn't ready to take its place.

  • Doing the Recovery Right

    January 28, 2009

    America's transformation to a clean-energy economy could merge the aims of environmental protection and social justice.

2008

  • How to End the Recession

    November 6, 2008

    The economy needs a shot of public investment--and if it's green, the payoff will be greatest.

  • We're All Minskyites Now

    October 29, 2008 Subscribe

    Lessons from a free-market critic on the contradictions of economic crisis.

  • Ending Casino Capitalism

    September 24, 2008 Subscribe

    This bailout doesn't have to cost $700 billion.

  • The Wages of Peace

    March 13, 2008

    Spending on the war in Iraq is a job killer. Ending the war would be the real stimulus package.

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Blogs

» The Beat

Bill Moyers Tells a Tale of Two Quagmires: Vietnam & Afghanistan | "Once again, the loudest case for enlarging the war is being made by those who will not have to fight it..."
John Nichols
60 Comments

» The Notion

Palin as the Church Lady | Going Rogue book tour brings passive-aggressive rightwing Christianity to the fore.
Leslie Savan
101 Comments

» Altercation

Slacker Friday | The "Second Amendment" sale; the raving paranoids of the right.
Eric Alterman

» Editor's Cut

An Alternative to Escalation in Afghanistan | President Obama is expected to make a decision regarding his Afghanistan strategy after Thanksgiving.
Katrina vanden Heuvel
71 Comments

» The Dreyfuss Report

Chongqing: Socialism in One City | China is managing the most important event in the world: the urbanization of half a billion people. Fast.
Robert Dreyfuss
204 Comments

» Act Now!

Toward Copenhagen | A guide to joining the movement against climate change.
Peter Rothberg
62 Comments