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.
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