The inflation conference at Political Economy Research Institute at UMass Amherst (PERI) presented mounting evidence that raising the rate of interest will…
Robert Pollin
Robert Pollin is Distinguished Professor of Economics and Codirector of the Political Economy Research Institute at the University of Massachusetts, Amherst. He has served as a consultant on energy and the economy for a wide range of organizations and institutions, including the U.S. Department of Energy, the International Labour Organization, the United Nations Industrial Development Program (UNIDO), and numerous nongovernmental organizations. He is author of Back to Full Employment (MIT Press), also in the Boston Review series, and Contours of Descent: U.S. Economic Fractures and the Landscape of Global Austerity.
The specter of inflation is haunting the world’s economies. Surging prices since 2020, especially in food and energy, have eroded global living…
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Since the mid-1990s, the United Nations has been launching global climate summits — called COPs — which stands for Conference of the…
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The global climate crisis is spinning out of control
We absolutely cannot allow neoliberalism to bask in a new wave of legitimacy in the name of fighting inflation
Crucially, there is widespread understanding of the measures that can be take, quite realistically, to avert impending disaster and move on to a much better world
The voice within had some nice words but little substance. In the streets, tens of thousands of protesters, mostly young, were desperately calling for real steps to save the world from looming catastrophe
