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Robert Pollin

Robert Pollin is a distinguished professor of economics and co-director of the Political Economy Research Institute at the University of Massachusetts-Amherst.

Robert Pollin | Austerity Is Not a Solution: Why the Deficit Hawks Are Wrong (Video)

Wall Street hyper-speculation brought the global economy to its knees in 2008-09. To prevent a 1930s-level Depression, economic policymakers throughout the world enacted extraordinary measures. These included large-scale fiscal …

By: Robert Pollin ,; PoliticalEconomyResearchInstitute|Interview

October 6, 2010

The Potential Revenue From Financial Transactions Taxes

Published December 2009

By: Matt Sherman ,; Dean Baker ,; Robert Pollin ,; Travis McArthur ,; CenterforEconomicandPolicyResearch(CEPR)andPoliticalEconomyResearchInstitute(PERI)

February 2, 2010