Mark Weisbrot
Bio
weisbrot [at] cepr.net
Mark Weisbrot is Co-Director of the Center for Economic and Policy Research in Washington, D.C. He received his Ph.D. 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), co-author, 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.
Most Recent
Selected Articles and Publications
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The Guardian, September 18, 2020
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June 22, 2020; by Alexander Main, Mark Weisbrot, and Didier Jacobs
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Who Is to Blame for Argentina’s Economic Crisis?
The New York Times, August 19, 2019
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Bolivia’s Economic Transformation: Macroeconomic Policies, Institutional Changes and Results
October 2019; by Andrés Arauz, Mark Weisbrot, Andrew Bunker and Jake Johnston
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Brazil’s Democracy Pushed Into the Abyss
The New York Times, January 23, 2018
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"Headwinds to Growth": The IMF Program in Ecuador
July 2019; by Mark Weisbrot and Andrés Arauz
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How Congress Can End the War in Yemen
The New York Review of Books, September 14, 2018
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Economic Sanctions as Collective Punishment: The Case of Venezuela
Apr 2019; by Mark Weisbrot and Jeffrey Sachs
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Labor Has Lost Much in Past Four Decades, and Fed Threatens Recent Gains
Los Angeles Times, and 19 others, August 31, 2018
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Los Angeles Times, and 7 others, May 30, 2019
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The Transatlantic Alliance Will Survive Trump
The Nation, and 3 others, August 27, 2018
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The Pact for Mexico After Five Years: How Has It Fared?
June 2018; by Mark Weisbrot, Lara Merling, Rebecca Watts, and Jake Johnston
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Puerto Rico Needs Economic Recovery First, Not “Structural Reforms” and Debt Service Extraction
Testimony of Mark Weisbrot, Co-Director at the Center for Economic and Policy Research, to bipartisan group hosted by Congresswoman Nydia M. Velázquez; March 20, 2018
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The Threats, Real and Imagined, of Mexico’s Election
The New York Review of Books, and 1 other, March 9, 2018
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