Quote of the day
The acceptance that all that is solid has melted into the air, that reality and morality are not givens but imperfect human constructs, is the point from which fiction begins.
Robert Pollin
Born: September 29, 1950  (age 75)
Bio: Robert Pollin is an American economist. He is a professor of economics at the University of Massachusetts Amherst and founding co-director of its Political Economy Research Institute. He has been described as a leftist economist and is a supporter of egalitarianism.
Known for:
- Greening the Global Economy (2015)
 - Back to Full Employment (2012)
 - Contours of Descent (2003)
 - The living wage (1998)
 








