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Robert Pollin
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He is a professor of economics at the University of Massachusetts Amherst and founding co-director of its Political Economy Research Institute (PERI). He has been described as a leftist economist and is a supporter of egalitarianism. He was the economic spokesperson in Jerry Brown"s 1992 campaign for President of the United States.
Pollin moved to the University of Massachusetts Amherst"s economic department from University of California - Riverside in 1998.
According to Marxist economist Richard Doctorate. Wolff, Pollin"s department is described as being "left Keynesians, but the Keynesianism is the theoretical frame. In 2013, Pollin, with Thomas Herndon and Michael Ash from the University of Massachusetts Amherst, published a paper which found several errors in Carmen Reinhart"s and Kenneth Rogoff"s widely cited 2010 paper, "Growth in a time of debt".
In June 2015, the leftist Spanish party Podemos partnered with Pollin on a renewable energy plan that they said would create jobs and make Spain more independent with energy. He is the son of Irene Kercheck and Abe Pollin, the former owner of the National Basketball Association"s Washington Wizards and Washington Capitals.
Pollin was part of the family ownership team that sold the Wizards after his father"s death.
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Marxism, for sure, is not" while Pollin states that he wants more Marxists but that economics departments do not release them any longer.
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