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Dean Baker Co-Director, Center for Economic and Policy Research Dean Baker received his Ph.D. in economics from the University of Michigan. He is co-author, with Mark Weisbrot, of Social Security: The Phony Crisis (University of Chicago Press, 1999). Other work includes Getting Prices Right: The Battle Over the Consumer Price Index (M.E. Sharpe Press, 1997), which was selected for the 1998 Choice Outstanding Academic Book List, and Globalization and Progressive Economic Policy (Cambridge University Press, 1998), edited with Jerry Epstein and Bob Pollin. He is also author of the Economic Reporting Review, a weekly examination of the economic reporting in the New York Times and the Washington Post, and periodic analyses of the Federal Government's economic data on prices, employment, corporate profits, and the GDP. He is also a co-author, with Mark Weisbrot, of "The Scorecard on Globalization: Twenty Years of Diminished Progress", which examines performance of countries on indicators of health and education outcomes during the era of globalization He is currently Co-Director of the Center for Economic and Policy Research. Formerly he was Senior Research Fellow at the Preamble Center in Washington, D.C. and the Century Fund in New York; previous to that was a Senior Economist at the Economic Policy Institute in Washington. His writing has appeared in the Atlantic Monthly, Washington Post, American Prospect, and Challenge, among many other publications. He has also appeared on PBS' Lehrer Newshour, Fox News, NPR, Counterspin, and numerous other television and radio programs. |