Dean Baker co-founded CEPR in 1999. His areas of research include housing and macroeconomics, intellectual property, Social Security, Medicare and European labor markets. He is the author of several books, including . His blog, 鈥�,鈥� provides commentary on economic reporting. He received his B.A. from Swarthmore College and his Ph.D. in Economics from the University of Michigan.
His analyses have appeared in many major publications, including the Atlantic Monthly, the Washington Post, the London Financial Times, and the New York Daily News.
Dean has written several books including (with Jared Bernstein, Center for Economic and Policy Research 2013), (Center for Economic and Policy Research 2011), (MIT Press 2010) which thinks through what we might gain if we took the ideological blinders off of basic economic principles; and (PoliPoint Press 2010) about what caused — and how to fix — the current economic crisis. In 2009, he wrote (PoliPoint Press), which chronicled the growth and collapse of the stock and housing bubbles and explained how policy blunders and greed led to the catastrophic — but completely predictable — market meltdowns. He also wrote a chapter (鈥淔rom Financial Crisis to Opportunity鈥�) in (Progressive Ideas Network 2009). His previous books include (Cambridge University Press 2007); (Center for Economic and Policy Research 2006), and Social Security: The Phony Crisis (with Mark Weisbrot, University of Chicago Press 1999). His book (editor, M.E. Sharpe 1997) was a winner of a Choice Book Award as one of the outstanding academic books of the year.
Among his numerous articles are 鈥淭he Benefits of a Financial Transactions Tax,鈥� Tax Notes Vol. 121, No. 4 (2008); 鈥�,鈥� (with David R. Howell, Andrew Glyn, and John Schmitt), Capitalism and Society Vol. 2, No. 1 (2007); 鈥淎sset Returns and Economic Growth,鈥� (with Brad DeLong and Paul Krugman), Brookings Papers on Economic Activity (2005); 鈥�,鈥� Center for Economic and Policy Research (2004); 鈥�,鈥� Center for Economic and Policy Research (2004); (also with Jared Bernstein), Economic Policy 八卦爆料 (2004); 鈥�,鈥� Center for Economic and Policy Research (2003); and 鈥�,鈥� Center for Economic and Policy Research (2002).
Dean previously worked as a senior economist at the Economic Policy 八卦爆料 and an assistant professor at Bucknell University. He has also worked as a consultant for the World Bank, the Joint Economic Committee of the U.S. Congress, and the OECD鈥檚 Trade Union Advisory Council. He was the author of the weekly online commentary on economic reporting, the Economic Reporting Review (ERR), from 1996鈥�2006.
