Robert Pollin

Robert N. Pollin (born September 29, 1950) is an American economist and activist. He is a professor of economics at the University of Massachusetts-Amherst and founding co-director of its Political Economy Research Institute (PERI).

He was the economic spokesperson in Jerry Brown's 1992 campaign for President of the United States.

He is the son of Abe Pollin, the owner of the NBA's Washington Wizards.

Books

• The Macroeconomics of Saving, Finance, and Investment (1997)
• Globalization and Progressive Economic Policy (ed., with Dean Baker and Gerald Epstein; 1998)
• Contours of Descent: US Economic Fractures and the Landscape of Global Austerity (2003)
• The Living Wage: Building a Fair Economy (with Stephanie Luce)
• Transforming the US Financial System (ed., with Gary Dymski and Gerald Epstein)

External links

	Biography portal
	Economics portal

• Lead article by Robert Pollin in a wonderful written forum at the Boston Review on full employment, with articles by many authors
• Tools for a New Economy: Proposals for a Financial Regulatory System by Robert Pollin in the Boston Review
• How Unleashed Capitalism Produces Economic Crises: What is to be done? Video of talk at University of Minnesota, February, 2009
• Curriculum Vitae (March 2009)

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