Noam Chomsky and Robert Pollin: Who's afraid of the Green New Deal?
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Noam Chomsky and Robert Pollin: Who's afraid of the Green New Deal?

The Green New Deal is a divisive idea for the economies of the future, derided by the right as ill thought out, its left wing proponents see it as a way of saving the environment while keeping up economic growth. Manveen Rana has been speaking to the co-authors of a new book on the subject, Professors Robert Pollin and Noam Chomsky.


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Guests:

Robert Pollin, Professor of economics and co-director of the political economy research Institute at University of Massachusetts Amherst

Noam Chomsky, Professor Emeritus at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and Laureate Professor at the University of Arizona


Host: Manveen Rana.


Clips used: AP, The Hill.

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