What do you stand for?
Trump made specific promises to many of the voters who were instrumental in getting him elected — some of whom are people…
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.
A combination of better jobs and pensions will remove one political obstacle to a green transition—and it’s the right thing to do
Does Bernie Sanders’s economic program amount to pie-in-the-sky nonsense? The short answer is no. All of his major proposals are grounded in solid economic reasoning and evidence
Long-term investments in clean energy would curb emissions and create millions of jobs around the globe
The Congressional Progressive Caucus’s budget would increase spending on education, healthcare and the green economy while rolling back cuts against social services
The Annual Robert Heilbroner Lecture on the Future of Capitalism…
Nothing warms the heart quite like a story of the high and mighty brought low. Harvard economists Carmen Reinhart and Kenneth Rogoff…
Prominent economists have been expounding for months on the dire consequences of this country’s unemployment crisis. As recently as this May, Dean…