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Chomsky Noam

Noam Chomsky is Institute Professor Emeritus at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and Laureate Professor at the University of Arizona. Author of American Power and the New Mandarins and Manufacturing Consent (with Ed Herman), among many other books, he is a linguist, historian, philosopher, and cognitive scientist who has risen to prominence in the American consciousness as a political activist and the nation’s foremost public intellectual.

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), Greening the Global Economy (2015), and Climate Crisis and the Global Green New Deal (co-authored 2020). 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. 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. Between 2011– 2016, he was a member of the Scientific Advisory Committee of the European Commission project on Financialization, Economy, Society, and Sustainable Development (FESSUD). He was selected by Foreign Policy magazine as one of the “100 Leading Global Thinkers for 2013.”

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Illegitimate Authority: Facing the Challenges of Our Time
'One of the greatest, most radical public thinkers of our time' Arundhati RoyIn these incisive inter...
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The Secrets of Words
Two distinguished linguists on language, the history of science, misplaced euphoria, surprising fact...
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Chronicles of Dissent
An accessible, powerful overview of Noam Chomsky's political thoughtIn sixteen extended talks with A...
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Consequences of Capitalism: Manufacturing Discontent and Resistance
An essential primer on capitalism, politics and how the world works, based on the hugely popular und...
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Climate Crisis and the Global Green New Deal: The Political Economy of Saving the Planet
Climate change: watershed or endgame?In this compelling new book, Noam Chomsky, the world’s leading...
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Year 501: The Conquest Continues
Exploring the great work of subjugation and conquest which began with Columbus, in Year 501 Chomsky...
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Global Discontents: Conversations on the Rising Threats to Democracy
'If I were a voter in Britain, I would vote for [Jeremy Corbyn]' - Noam Chomsky, 2017Global Disconte...
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Why Only Us? : Language and Evolution
“A loosely connected collection of four essays that will fascinate anyone interested in the extraord...
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Optimism Over Despair
An essential overview of the problems of our world today -- and how we should prepare for tomorrow -...
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Who Rules the World?
A new book on the state of the world today -- from one of the most respected and revered political c...
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Rogue States: The Rule of Force in World Affairs
Rogue States is a collection of essays written by Chomsky in the late 1990s, all of which subvert th...
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Pirates and Emperors, Old and New: International Terrorism in the Real World
Pirates & Emperors, Old & New constitutes a collection of extended essays written between 1986 and 2...
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What Kind of Creatures Are We?
Noam Chomsky is widely known and deeply admired for being the founder of modern linguistics, one of...
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Masters of Mankind: Essays and Lectures, 1969-2013
In this collection of essays from 1969-2013, many in book form for the first time, Noam Chomsky expo...
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Because We Say So
In 1962, the eminent statesman Dean Acheson enunciated a principle that has dominated global politic...
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