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Present	Co-Director of Political Economy Research Institute, University of Massachusetts Amherst
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2014 Albie Awards, Foreign Policy Magazine
100 Leading Global Thinkers of 2013, Foreign Policy Magazine
2009 Award for Outstanding Accomplishment in Research and Creative Activity, University of Massachusetts Amherst, UMass Amherst Faculty Convocation

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Articles (2)

Why U.S. Financial Markets Need a Public Credit Rating ...

The Economists' Voice (2009)

M. Ahmed Diomande, James S. Heintz and Robert N. Pollin

The financial crisis reveals a need for a public credit rating agency that is not in the pay of issuers, ...

Edited Transcript of Living Wage Conference Call, February 11, 2004

Journal Articles (2005)

Timothy J. Bartik,, David Neumark, Robert Pollin, David Reynolds, et al.

A Measure of Fairness: The Economics of Living Wages and ...

Robert N Pollin

An Employment-Targeted Economic Program for South Africa

Robert N Pollin

Contours of Descent: U.S. Economic Fractures and the Landscape ...

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The Living Wage: Building A Fair Economy

Robert N Pollin

Green Recovery since the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act (ARRA)

Clean Energy Connections (2009)

Green Economics and Employment: Possibilities for Massachusetts

Clean Energy Connections (2008)

Public Investment, Industrial Policy and U.S. Economic Renewal

PERI Working Papers (2009)

Robert Pollin and Dean Baker

The U.S. economy faces enormous questions and challenges as it attempts to recover from the col-lapse of 2008-09. Some of ...

Response to “Seven Myths about Green Jobs” and “Green Jobs ...

PERI Working Papers (2009)

Two new papers purport to debunk “myths” about recent students on the employment effects of investments in the clean energy ...

The Potential Revenue from Financial Transactions Taxes

PERI Working Papers (2009)

Dean Baker, Robert Pollin, Travis McArthur and Matt Sherman

The economic crisis of the last two years has led to serious concerns about the sharp growth in the federal ...

Considerations on Interest Rate Exogeneity

PERI Working Papers (2008)

The idea of an exogenous money supply—controlled entirely through central bank interventions—was a fundamental tenet of monetarism and New Classical ...

Is Full Employment Possible under Globalization?

PERI Working Papers (2008)

To honor the life work of Professor Sumner Rosen, this lecture examines approaches to promoting full employment at decent jobs ...

The Employment Effects of Downsizing the U.S. Military

PERI Working Papers (2007)

Robert Pollin and Heidi Garrett-Peltier

This study focuses on the employment effects of military spending versus channeling some significant part of the military budget into ...

The U.S. Employment Effects of Military and Domestic Spending ...

PERI Working Papers (2007)

Robert Pollin and Heidi Garrett-Peltier

This study is focused on the employment effects of military spending versus channeling some significant part of the military budget ...

Comments on Aaron Yelowitz, "Santa Fe's Living Wage Ordinance ...

PERI Working Papers (2005)

Robert Pollin and Jeannette Wicks-Lim

In a new study by Yelowitz “Santa Fe’s Wage Ordinance and the Labor Market,” dated September 23, 2005 (published by ...

Inflation and Economic Growth: A Cross-Country Non-linear Analysis

PERI Working Papers (2005)

Robert Pollin and Andong Zhu

This paper presents new non-linear regression estimates of the relationship between inflation and economic growth for 80 countries over the ...

The Work Environment Index: Technical Background Paper

PERI Working Papers (2005)

James Heintz, Jeannette Wicks-Lim and Robert Pollin

The vast majority of Americans work for a living. The track record of different states varies widely when it comes ...

Deepening Divides in the U.S. Economy, 2004: Jobless Recovery ...

PERI Working Papers (2004)

Writing in March 2004, two manifestations of the current conditions have become most prominent, having become, in fact, major news ...

Review (for Challenge Magazine) of The Roaring Nineties: A New ...

PERI Working Papers (2004)

In The Roaring Nineties, Professor Joseph Stiglitz delivers a forceful and largely effective attack on U.S. economic policy during the ...

Evaluating Living Wage Laws in the United States: Good Intentions ...

PERI Working Papers (2003)

This paper first examines the question “what is a living wage” and provides a range of specific dollar amounts derived ...

Informalization, Economic Growth and the Challenge of Creating Viable Labor ...

PERI Working Papers (2003)

James Heintz and Robert Pollin

Over recent decades, there has been the substantial rise in the proportion of people engaged in what is termed informal ...

Global Apparel Production and Sweatshop Labor: Can Raising Retail Prices ...

PERI Working Papers (2002)

Robert Pollin, Justine Burns and James Heintz

This paper provides some empirical evidence on issues raised by the global antisweatshop movement. We first consider the relationship between ...

Globalization and the Transition to Egalitarian Development

PERI Working Papers (2002)

Keith Griffin is one of the giants of economics in our time. His writings on egalitarian development are of course ...

Measuring the Impact of Living Wage Laws: A Critical Appraisal ...

PERI Working Papers (2002)

Mark D. Brenner, Jeannette Wicks-Linn and Robert Pollin

Drawing on data from the Current Population Survey (CPS), David Neumark (2002) finds that living wage laws have brought substantial ...