Political Economy Research Institute (PERI)

The mission of the Political Economy Research Institute (PERI) is to initiate, organize, and provide both resources and a location for policy-relevant research, in the areas of domestic and international macroeconomics, labor economics, economic development, the environment, and global integration. Students and faculty from the University of Massachusetts Amherst and visiting scholars, including postdoctoral fellows, come to the Institute to undertake research in the defined areas. Issues such as increasing income and wealth inequality, problems facing low-wage workers, underemployment, environmental deterioration in the United States and abroad, and problems created by speculative financial flows within and between countries are among the topics that Institute researchers study. The Institute is located at Gordon Hall, 418 N. Pleasant St., Amherst, MA 01002, tel. 545-6355. Co-Directors: Gerald Epstein, Professor of Economics, tel. (413) 577-0822, email: gepstein@econs.umass.edu; Robert N. Pollin, Professor of Economics, tel. 577-0819, email:pollin@econs.umass.edu.