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UMass Amherst Department of Economics

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Neoliberalism’s Bailout Problem

Wanted: Shovel-Ready Projects for a Green New Deal

The Deficit Is Exploding! And That’s a Good Thing.

Green Economics and Decent Work: A Viable Unified Framework

The Case for Medicare for All

Robert Pollin's research centers on macroeconomics, conditions for low-wage workers in the U.S. and globally, the analysis of financial markets, and the economics of building a clean-energy economy in the U.S and globally.

Green Economy

Clean Energy Economics

Green Jobs

Green New Deal

Conditions for Low-Wage Workers

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Is America Ready for ‘Degrowth Communism’?

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How to ‘decouple’ emissions from economic growth? These economists say you can’t.

Americans Have Already Lived Through a Shutdown

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Is a Livable Future Still Possible? Chomsky and Pollin Discuss the IPCC Report.

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No Evidence to Support FED 2% Inflation Target – Robert Pollin

Rising Interest Rates Intended to Create Unemployment – An Interview withBob Pollin

The Political Economy of Saving the Planet

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UMass Amherst economist Robert Pollin

Distinguished Professor of Economics and Co-Director of Political Economy Research Institute (PERI)

Sovereign Debt and Climate Finance Conference

Organized by Political Economy Research Institute (PERI) & International Development Economics Associates Limited (IDEAs)  

May 3- 5, 2024 at Gordan Hall, UMass Amherst.

Robert Pollin at International Development Economics Associates

Robert Pollin is a Distinguished Professor of Economics and co-director of the Political Economy Research Institute (PERI). He is mainly a macroeconomist, but is very interested in issues related to generating employment opportunities, such as, building a green economy and decent work conditions.

Social Science Matters: Robert Pollin, Distinguished Professor of Economics

Macroeconomic Policy in the Shadow of the Great Financial Crisis: Insights from Four Recent Books

December 6, 2019, 9:30amET

Hosted by the Political Economy Research Institute (PERI,) Lyndon B. Johnson School of Public Affairs, and LBJ Washington Center

The Great Financial Crisis of 2007–08 has cast a long shadow on the economic and political realities we confront today, as did the Great Depression of the 1930’s on the decades that followed. These economic earthquakes also upended the conventional economic thinking, particularly in the realm of macroeconomics.

This event presents four new books that address various aspects of macroeconomic theory and policy making. Our center-piece book -- James Crotty’s "Keynes Against Capitalism: His Economic Case for Liberal Socialism" -- asks, what can we learn of relevance today from the seminal work of John Maynard Keynes? This is followed by a plenary address by James Galbraith on Pragmatism and Ideology in the Legacy of John Maynard Keynes and then discussions on "When Things Don’t Fall Apart," by Ilene Grabel; "All Fall Down," by Jane D’Arista and "The Political Economy of Central Banking," by Gerald Epstein.

Panel Discussion, Dec. 6, 2019

Macroeconomic Policy in the Shadow of the Great Financial Crisis

After downplaying the threat of coronavirus for days, President Donald Trump addressed the nation Wednesday from the Oval Office, calling COVID-19 a “foreign virus” and announcing an unprecedented travel ban from most of Europe to the U.S. He also said he will expand sick leave. This comes as Senate Republicans blocked paid sick leave legislation. Robert Pollin, distinguished university professor of economics and co-director of the Political Economy Research Institute at the University of Massachusetts Amherst, says the lack of universal healthcare in the U.S. is exacerbating the coronavirus crisis due to “the absurdity that people cannot feel confident that they are going to get medical treatment” when they need it most. In 2018, Pollin co-authored a paper titled “Economic Analysis of Medicare for All.” His forthcoming book, co-authored with Noam Chomsky, is “The Climate Crisis and the Global Green New Deal: The Political Economy of Saving the Planet.”

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Robin Pollin on Trump, Healthcare and COVID-19

Trump Calls COVID-19 “Foreign Virus” as Lack of Universal Healthcare Makes the Pandemic Worse

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