Publications

How Do Big Payments to CEOs Who Took Their Companies Into Bankruptcy Maximize Shareholder Value?

Dean Baker / June 23, 2020

report informe

Globalization and Trade

IMF

Special Drawing Rights

The World Economy Needs a Stimulus: IMF Special Drawing Rights Are Critical to Containing the Pandemic and Boosting the World Economy

IMF Special Drawing Rights Are Critical to Containing the Pandemic and Boosting the World Economy

Alexander Main, Mark Weisbrot and Didier Jacobs / June 22, 2020

Article Artículo

The New York Times Doesn’t Like It When Workers Have Job Security: The Case of Japan

Dean Baker / June 22, 2020

Article Artículo

Patents and the Pandemic, Again

Dean Baker / June 18, 2020

Article Artículo

Cutting State and Local Budgets is an Attack on the Country’s Black Workers

United States

Workers

Workers who lose their jobs as a result of layoffs in the public sector are 20 percent more likely to be Black than workers who lose their jobs in the private sector.

Hayley Brown and Dean Baker / June 16, 2020

Article Artículo

NYT Gives Up on Logic in News Reporting — Tells Readers of Risk of Relying on China, with Zero Argument

Globalization and Trade

Yes, we all know the coronavirus originated in China and that its government was not forthcoming with information about the disease and its spread, but what does that have to do with "relying economically" on China?

Dean Baker / June 15, 2020

Article Artículo

Brazil

Latin America and the Caribbean

Rio de Janeiro: Police Violence and Solidarity

What is happening in Rio illustrates how a combination of anti-Black racism, militarized law enforcement, and a lack of social services leads to tragic levels of state violence.

Brett Heinz / June 15, 2020

Article Artículo

Globalization and Trade

Nonsense About China that “Everyone” Knows

There is a widely held view in policy circles that the pandemic showed that our extensive economic ties with China are a bad thing. I will ask a simple question, how?

Dean Baker / June 15, 2020

Article Artículo

The Simple Way to Prevent Hedge Funds from Gaming Government Pandemic Research Funding: Don’t Give Patent Monopolies

Dean Baker / June 12, 2020

report informe

Bolivia

Latin America and the Caribbean

Observando a los observadores: La OEA y las elecciones bolivianas de 2019

Un nuevo estudio de gran envergadura realizado por el Centro de Investigación en Economía y Política (CEPR, por sus siglos en inglés) examina las fallas en el “Informe Final” de la Organización de Estados Americanos (OEA) de la auditoria de las elecciones

David Rosnick and Jake Johnston / June 11, 2020

Article Artículo

Ending Emergency Unemployment Insurance Supplements

Dean Baker / June 10, 2020

Article Artículo

Government-Granted Patent Monopolies and Structural Racism

Dean Baker / June 10, 2020

Prices Byte Artículo

Core and Overall Consumer Price Index Both Fall 0.1 Percent in May

Economic Growth

United States

Over the last three months, prices of food in stores have risen 4.1 percent, compared to 0.7 percent for restaurants.

Dean Baker / June 10, 2020

Article Artículo

Haiti

Latin America and the Caribbean

Poukisa OEA ak Jovenel Moïse nan menm bato?

Jake Johnston / June 09, 2020

Article Artículo

NYT Says Farmers to Get 10 Million Food Stamp Person Years of Government Aid

Dean Baker / June 08, 2020

Article Artículo

Decolonize Our Future

An international, digital and feminist Green New Deal that decolonizes our future is our species’ hope

Andrés Arauz and Renata Avila / June 08, 2020

Article Artículo

The Enemy is Government-Granted Patent Monopolies, not the Market

This is the first entry in an exchange with Leigh Phillips. I am responding to a piece he wrote in Jacobin last week about the drug industry's response to the pandemic.

Dean Baker / June 08, 2020

Article Artículo

Government