Dean Baker

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Dean Baker (born July 13, 1958 ) is an American economist and publicist. Alongside Mark Weisbrot , he is one of the founders of the Center for Economic and Policy Research (CEPR), a progressive think tank in Washington, DC

Educational path

In 1981 Dean Baker earned a bachelor's degree in history from Swarthmore College , followed by a master's degree in economics from the University of Denver in 1983. In 1988, he received his PhD from the University of Michigan with WH Locke Anderson with a dissertation on the logic of neoclassical consumer theory.

Professional background

After receiving his doctorate, Dean Baker worked as an assistant professor of economics at Bucknell University and as a senior economist at the Economic Policy Institute , where he continues to work as a research fellow. In addition, he advised the World Bank , the Joint Economic Committee of the US Congress and the trade union advisory council of the OECD. In 1999 Dean Baker founded the Center for Economic and Policy Research together with Mark Weisbrot in order to create a progressive counterweight to conservative economic policy think tanks such as the Heritage Foundation or the American Enterprise Institute . In addition to serving as co-director of CEPR and on the Truthout Advisory Committee , Baker is also a journalist and columnist for several newspapers, including the Huffington Post .

Political positions

Dean Baker represents progressive economic policy positions. With regard to the rise in income inequality in the US, he criticizes the fact that highly qualified workers are protected from competition by restrictive and opaque professional admission rules, while low-skilled workers are exposed to strong competitive pressure through free trade agreements and the unrestrained immigration of low-wage workers from abroad. In addition, Baker has historically portrayed the Federal Reserve Bank's interest rate policy as being overly concerned about inflation risks and blaming it for "killing jobs". Other positions include his criticism of the high salaries and bonuses of CEOs in the USA, the monopolies on intellectual property guaranteed by existing patent and copy protection law, the expansion of the scope of liability in connection with the reform of bankruptcy law, the limitation of legal fees for damages claims, the excessive protection of SMEs and the protection of private companies from competition with state companies.

bibliography

  • D. Baker, M. Weisbrot: Social Security: The Phony Crisis. University of Chicago Press, Chicago (IL) 1999, ISBN 0-226-03546-8 .
  • J. Bernstein, D. Baker: The Benefits of Full Employment: When Markets Work for People. Economic Policy Institute, Washington, DC 2003, ISBN 1-932066-04-7 .
  • D. Baker: The Conservative Nanny State: How the Wealthy Use the Government to Stay Wealthy and Get Richer. Center for Economic and Policy Research, Washington, DC 2006, ISBN 1-4116-9395-7 .
  • D. Baker: The United States Since 1980. Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, UK 2007, ISBN 978-0-521-67755-4 .
  • D. Baker: Plunder and Blunder: The Rise and Fall of the Bubble Economy. PoliPoint Press, Sausalito (CA) 2009, ISBN 978-0-9815769-9-2 .
  • D. Baker: False Profits: Recovering from the Bubble Economy. PoliPoint Press, Sausalito (CA) 2010, ISBN 978-0-9824171-2-6 .
  • D. Baker: Taking Economics Seriously. MIT Press, Cambridge (MA) 2010, ISBN 978-0-262-01418-2 .
  • D. Baker: The End of Loser Liberalism: Making Markets Progressive. Center for Economic and Policy Research, Washington, DC 2011, ISBN 978-0-615-53363-6 .
  • J. Bernstein, D. Baker: Getting Back to Full Employment: A Better Bargain for Working People. Center for Economic and Policy Research, Washington, DC 2013, ISBN 978-0-615-91835-8 .
  • D. Baker: Rigged: How Globalization and the Rules of the Modern Economy Were Structured to Make the Rich Richer. Center for Economic and Policy Research, Washington, DC 2016, ISBN 978-0-692-79336-7 .

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  1. ^ Dean Baker's profile on the Economic Policy Institute website
  2. ^ Dean Baker's website
  3. ^ D. Baker: The Conservative Nanny State: How the Wealthy Use the Government to Stay Wealthy and Get Richer . Center for Economic and Policy Research, Washington, DC 2006, Chapter 1.
  4. ↑ D. Baker: The Conservative Nanny State. 2006, chapter 2.
  5. ↑ D. Baker: The Conservative Nanny State. 2006, chapter 3.
  6. ↑ D. Baker: The Conservative Nanny State. 2006, chapter 4.

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personal data
SURNAME Baker, Dean
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American economist and publicist
DATE OF BIRTH July 13, 1958