Robert Pollin

Robert Pollin is a professor of economics and co-director of the Political Economy Research Institute (PERI) at the University of Massachusetts. He was a member of the Capital Formation Subcouncil of the US Competitiveness Policy Council in the 1990s. His books include The Macroeconomics of Saving, Finance, and Investment, of which he was the editor, and New Perspectives in Monetary Macroeconomics: Explorations in the Tradition of Hyman P. Minsky, which he co-edited.

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  • 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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RadioNation with Laura Flanders, 11/10/08
This week, what it all meant. Nation Editor Katrina vanden Heuvel on Barack Obama's victory and the coming battle for progressive change we can believe in. (13mb mp3)

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