Robert Pollin (born September 29, 1950) is an American economist and professor at the University of Massachusetts Amherst,[1] where he is also founding co-director of its Political Economy Research Institute (PERI).

[5][6][7] In 2013, he was selected by Foreign Policy magazine as one of the “100 Leading Global Thinkers.”[3] He was the economic spokesperson in Jerry Brown's 1992 campaign for President of the United States.

Pollin states that he would be happy to hire Marxists but that economics departments do not produce them any longer.

In April 2022, Pollin recommended that the US government purchase a controlling interest in the three dominant U.S. oil and gas corporations, ExxonMobil, Chevron, and ConocoPhillips in order to enable the phaseout of fossil fuels and the transition to clean energy.

[8] Pollin was part of the family ownership team that sold the Wizards after his father's death.