{"id":14920,"date":"2022-05-25T09:48:00","date_gmt":"2022-05-25T06:48:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.khas.edu.tr\/?post_type=etkinlik&#038;p=14920"},"modified":"2025-05-13T12:03:24","modified_gmt":"2025-05-13T09:03:24","slug":"khas-economics-contemporary-debates-prof-dr-robert-pollin","status":"publish","type":"etkinlik","link":"https:\/\/www.khas.edu.tr\/en\/events\/khas-economics-contemporary-debates-prof-dr-robert-pollin\/","title":{"rendered":"KHAS Economics \u2013 Contemporary Debates: Prof. Dr. Robert Pollin"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><strong>Prof. Dr. Robert Pollin&nbsp;<\/strong>from&nbsp;University of Massachusetts-Amherst&nbsp;will be the next guest of&nbsp;<strong>Contemporary Debates,&nbsp;<\/strong>organized by&nbsp;Kadir Has University&nbsp;Department of Economics, with his speech&nbsp;\u201c<strong>The political economy of green transition, rising inflation, and stagnation tendencies<\/strong>\u201d&nbsp;<strong>on May 25 at 1.30 pm<\/strong>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The event on&nbsp;<strong>Cibali Campus B503<\/strong>&nbsp;is open to anyone interested.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>About the Speaker:&nbsp;<\/strong>Robert Pollin is Distinguished University Professor of Economics and Co-Director of the Political Economy Research Institute (PERI) at the University of Massachusetts-Amherst. He is also the founder and President of PEAR (Pollin Energy and Retrofits), an Amherst, MA-based green energy company operating throughout the United States. His books include The Living Wage: Building a Fair Economy (co-authored 1998); Contours of Descent: U.S. Economic Fractures and the Landscape of Global Austerity (2003); An Employment-Targeted Economic Program for South Africa (co-authored 2007); A Measure of Fairness: The Economics of Living Wages and Minimum Wages in the United States (co-authored 2008), Back to Full Employment (2012), Green Growth (2014), Global Green Growth (2015) and Greening the Global Economy (2015). He has worked as a consultant for the U.S. Department of Energy, the International Labour Organization, the United Nations Industrial Development Organization and numerous non-governmental organizations in several countries and in U.S. states and municipalities on various aspects of building high-employment green economies.&nbsp; He has also directed projects on employment creation and poverty reduction in sub-Saharan Africa for the United Nations Development Program. He has worked with many U.S. non-governmental organizations on creating living wage statutes at both the statewide and municipal levels, on financial regulatory policies, and on the economics of single-payer health care in the United States. In 2018, he co-authored Economic Analysis of Medicare for All.&nbsp; Between 2011\u2013 2016, he was a member of the Scientific Advisory Committee of the European Commission project on Financialization, Economy, Society, and Sustainable Development (FESSUD).&nbsp; He was selected by Foreign Policy magazine as one of the \u201c100 Leading Global Thinkers for 2013.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em><strong>This event series is organized by Asst. Prof. G\u00f6zde \u00c7\u00f6rek\u00e7io\u011flu \u0130shako\u011flu and Asst. Prof. Ula\u015f Karako\u00e7.<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":14921,"template":"","meta":{"slim_seo":{"title":"KHAS Economics \u2013 Contemporary Debates: Prof. Dr. Robert Pollin - Kadir Has University","description":"Prof. Dr. Robert Pollin&nbsp; from&nbsp;University of Massachusetts-Amherst&nbsp;will be the next guest of&nbsp; Contemporary Debates,&nbsp; organized by&nbsp;K"}},"birimler":[86],"class_list":["post-14920","etkinlik","type-etkinlik","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","birimler-econ"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.khas.edu.tr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/etkinlik\/14920","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.khas.edu.tr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/etkinlik"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.khas.edu.tr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/etkinlik"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.khas.edu.tr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/14921"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.khas.edu.tr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14920"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"birimler","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.khas.edu.tr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/birimler?post=14920"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}