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.


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Mark Weisbrot’s Interview on Argentina’s Election

Mark Weisbrot’s Interview on Argentina’s Election

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.

By Mark Weisbrot

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Ecuador’s Election Could Have Lasting Consequences

Ecuador’s Election Could Have Lasting Consequences

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.

By Mark Weisbrot

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