Climate Crisis and the Global Green New Deal: The Political Economy of Saving the Planet
Book Details
- Publisher : Verso Books
- Published : 2020
- Cover : Paperback
- Pages : 192
- Category :
Environmental Studies - Category 2 :
Climate Politics - Catalogue No : 96364
- ISBN 13 : 9781788739856
- ISBN 10 : 178873985X
About the Author(s)
Noam Chomsky is Institute Professor emeritus (MIT) and Laureate Professor (U. of Arizona). He is a long-time political activist and author of many books and articles on linguistics, cognitive science, philosophy, intellectual history, social-political issues and international affairs.
Robert Pollin is Distinguished University Professor of Economics and Co-Director of the Political Economy Research Institute (PERI) at the University of Massachusetts-Amherst. His books include The Living Wage: Building a Fair Economy; Contours of Descent: U.S. Economic Fractures and the Landscape of Global Austerity; and Greening the Global Economy. He has worked as a consultant for the US Department of Energy, the International Labour Organization, the United Nations Industrial Development Organization and numerous non-governmental organizations in several countries and in US states and municipalities on various aspects of building high-employment green economies.