Robert Pollin

Robert Pollin is Distinguished University Professor of Economics and codirector of the Political Economy Research Institute (PERI) at the University of Massachusetts-Amherst. His books include The Living Wage: Building a Fair Economy, Contours of Descent: U.S. Economic Fractures and the Landscape of Global Austerity, and Greening the Global Economy. He has worked as a consultant for the US Department of Energy, the International Labour Organization, the United Nations Industrial Development Organization, and numerous non-governmental organizations in several countries and in US states and municipalities on various aspects of building high-employment green economies.