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Dean Baker

Dean Baker is Co-Director of the Center for Economic and Policy Research and author most recently of Rigged: How Globalization and the Rules of the Modern Economy Were Structured to Make the Rich Richer. His other books include Getting Back to Full Employment, The Conservative Nanny State, and Taking Economics Seriously. Baker’s commentary on economics reporting can be found at Beat the Press.

Articles

Millions of prime age workers did not just suddenly decide to retire. They left the labor force because of weak labor demand.
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The FCIC forgets the housing bubble
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The failings of the Simpson-Bowles report
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There is nothing wrong with economics, Dean Baker contends, but economists routinely ignore their own principles when it comes to economic policy. What would policy look like if we took basic principles of mainstream economics seriously and applied them consistently?

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How government helps financial giants get richer

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When it comes to health care, economists ignore their own rules.
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Blaming deregulation is misleading.
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Forums

The loss of jobs that accompanied globalization could have been avoided.

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Forum Responses

A wealth tax distracts from the causes of inequality: pre-tax income.
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I am fortunate to be in dialogue here with seven extraordinary intellectuals, from whom I have learned much over the years. Their responses address a wide range of issues, and I can’t...
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Sabeel Rahman raises many important issues in his discussion of Internet-based companies such as Amazon, Uber, and Airbnb. Unfortunately, he looks in the wrong direction for answers. His basic point is that...
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Suzanne Berger’s discussion of manufacturing in the United States raises many good issues, but it asks more questions than it answers. On its face it gives short shrift to the main factors...
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Mike Konczal raises many important points, but, in assessing the length and duration of the downturn, he places undue weight on underwater homeowners. Following on the work of Atif Mian and Amir...
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Eliot Spitzer makes an effective argument against much of the corruption that has taken root in our economy and society over the last three decades. However, he makes a fundamental error in...
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