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Senior Economist. Expertise: Housing, consumer prices, intellectual property, Social Security, Medicare, trade, employment. Dean Baker co-founded CEPR in 1999. His areas of research include housing and macroeconomics, intellectual property, Social Security, Medicare and European labor markets.
Dean Baker (born July 13, 1958) is an American macroeconomist who co-founded the Center for Economic and Policy Research (CEPR) with Mark Weisbrot. Baker has been credited as one of the first economists to have identified the 2007–08 United States housing bubble.
May 20, 2024 · Beat the Press is Dean Baker's commentary on economic reporting. He is a Senior Economist at the Center for Economic and Policy Research (CEPR). To never miss a post, subscribe to a weekly email roundup of Beat the Press.
A new analysis by CEPR’s Alex Richwine and Dean Baker shows that unresponsive endowment fund managers may be hiding more than certain business investments. The analysis shows how Ivy League endowment portfolios underperform and needlessly pay hefty manager fees to engage in risky investments.
Dean Baker is co-director of the Center for Economic and Policy Research in Washington, DC. He is frequently cited in economics reporting in major media outlets, including the New York Times, Washington Post, CNN, CNBC, and National Public Radio. He writes a weekly column for the Guardian Unlimited (UK), the Huffington Post, TruthOut, and his ...
Jun 9, 2022 · Dr. Dean Baker, cofounder and senior economist at the Center for Economic and Policy Research, joins the podcast to discuss inflation in the U.S. and what is to come. Is a recession on the...
Areas of expertise. Macroeconomics • Budget and taxes• Social Security • Inflation and interest rates • Trade. Biography. Dean Baker formerly was an assistant professor of economics at Bucknell University. He is currently a co-director of the Center for Economic Policy Research (CEPR) in Washington, D.C. Education.
