Mark Weisbrot
Co-Director, Center for Economic and Policy Research
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Co-Director, Center for Economic and Policy Research
Mark is co-director of CEPR. He received his PhD in economics from the University of Michigan. He is author of the book Failed: What the “Experts” Got Wrong About the Global Economy (Oxford University Press, 2015); is coauthor with Dean Baker of Social Security: The Phony Crisis (University of Chicago Press, 2000); and has written numerous research papers on economic policy.
He writes a regular column on economic and policy issues that is distributed to over 550 newspapers by the Tribune Content Agency. His opinion pieces have appeared in The New York Times, The Washington Post, the Los Angeles Times, The Guardian, and almost every major US newspaper as well as in Brazil’s largest newspaper, Folha de São Paulo. He appears regularly on national and local television and radio programs.
In Memory of Robert Solow
Janine Jackson, author, program director, and producer/host of FAIR’s syndicated weekly radio show Counterspin, interviewed Mark Weisbrot, economist and CEPR co-director, on Javier and the Argentine presidential election.
Extremist foreign policy is both a product of our corrupt political system, and a powerful force in its perpetuation.
Ecuador’s presidential candidates represent opposing sides of the policy choices, goals, values, and interests that brought about the sharply contrasting results of the two preceding episodes.
The 2024 election could determine how much we can fix problems, or whether we move backward toward increasing inequality of income, wealth, and access to education.
What would happen if anyone other than Trump were to win the Republican primary? Would Trump accept the result, or would we see a repeat of “stop the steal?”
It makes no sense for Treasury to block aid, which can save hundreds of thousands of lives in the world, as well as jobs in the US– all at zero cost to the US budget.
The debt ceiling fight was never really about debt reduction. It’s part of a vicious cycle in which political power is abused in order to consolidate a system that is increasingly undemocratic.
On May 19, 2023, the Center for Economic and Policy Research (CEPR) brought together leading experts in the study of economic sanctions to help to answer a critical, but often-ignored, question: What are the human consequences of US economic sanctions?
Here are eight predictions for the coming year, in accordance with a hallowed tradition that I have previously not honored.