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IMF-Supported Macroeconomic Policies and the World Recession: A Look at Forty-One Borrowing Countries
Discussion featuring CEPR Co-Director Mark Weisbrot,  Robert Weissman, President, Public Citizen, Asia Russell, Director of International Policy, Health Global Access Project, James Roaf, Deputy Division Chief in the Emerging Markets Unit of Strategy, Policy, and Review Department (SPR) at the IMF, that was moderated by Jo Marie Griesgraber, Executive Director, New Rules for Global Finance Coalition. October 15, 2009.

Video:
The IMF's New Lending in a Time of Global Economic Downturn
Discussion featuring CEPR-Co-Director
Mark Weisbrot with Hugh Bredenkamp, Deputy Director of Strategy, Policy, and Review Department at the IMF; Doug Rediker, Director of the Global Strategic Finance Initiative at the New America Foundation; Robert Weissman, Director of Essential Action, and Nancy Alexander of the Heinrich Boell Foundation. June 19, 2009.

Reports

The Relationship Between Financial Transactions Costs and Economic Growth
March 2012, Dean Baker and Helene Jorgensen

Long-Term Hardship in the Labor Market
March 2012, John Schmitt and Janelle Jones

Macroeconomic Policy, Labor Market Institutions and Employment Outcomes
December 2011, Eileen Appelbaum

Work Sharing: The Quick Route Back to Full Employment
June 2011, Dean Baker

7 Things You Need to Know About the National Debt, Deficits, and the Dollar
June 2011, Dean Baker and David Rosnick

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Op-Eds & Columns

The Jamaicanization of Europe
Mark Weisbrot
The Guardian Unlimited, May 18, 2012
En Español

Deficit Reduction: The Great Distraction
Dean Baker
Truthout, May 14, 2012

The Human Disaster of Unemployment
Dean Baker and Kevin Hassett
The New York Times, May 12, 2012

Everyone Agrees That the Decline in Private-Sector Pay Has Been Understated
Dean Baker
The Huffington Post, May 2, 2012

Budget Bunk: The Old Pox on Both Your Houses Game
Dean Baker
Truthout, April 30, 2012

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Events

Need or Greed: Who's Responsible for the Global Economic Collapse?

The Occupied Super Committee Hearing of the 99%

The Financial Crisis: Why We Occupy

In Defense of the Social Safety Net

Money Makes The World Go Around

New Priorities for Public Finance – Achieving Policy Coherence to Strengthen the State, Reduce Inequality and Promote Sustainable Growth

Strengthen Social Security ... Don't Cut It

2011 Federal Reserve Bank of Cleveland Policy Summit

Three Employment Policy Crises: Jobs, Wages and Public-Sector Collective Bargaining

Federal Reserve for the 21st Century: Employment, Consumer Protection, and the Future of Financial Regulation

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Press Releases

Unemployment Rate Does Not Tell the Full Story: Long-term Hardship a Tremendous Burden on Millions of Workers and the Economy
March 6, 2012

Senator Harkin and Representative DeFazio Introduce Financial Transactions Tax Proposal
November 2, 2011

Work Sharing Should be Part of the President's Job Program
September 7, 2011

Statement on the Debt Ceiling Deal
August 1, 2011

Statement on Introduction of Work Sharing Bills by Senator Reed and Representative DeLauro
July 6, 2011

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Video: IMF-Supported Macroeconomic Policies and the World Recession: A Look at Forty-One Borrowing Countries
Discussion featuring CEPR Co-Director Mark Weisbrot,  Robert Weissman, President, Public Citizen, Asia Russell, Director of International Policy, Health Global Access Project, James Roaf, Deputy Division Chief in the Emerging Markets Unit of Strategy, Policy, and Review Department (SPR) at the IMF, that was moderated by Jo Marie Griesgraber, Executive Director, New Rules for Global Finance Coalition. October 15, 2009.

Video:
The IMF's New Lending in a Time of Global Economic Downturn
Discussion featuring CEPR-Co-Director Mark Weisbrot with Hugh Bredenkamp, Deputy Director of Strategy, Policy, and Review Department at the IMF; Doug Rediker, Director of the Global Strategic Finance Initiative at the New America Foundation; Robert Weissman, Director of Essential Action, and Nancy Alexander of the Heinrich Boell Foundation. June 19, 2009.

Audio and Video: Financial Turmoil and the "Solutions" -- Will it Help or Worsen the Effects on Developing Countries?
Discussion with Martin Khor, Director of the Third World Network and Mark Weisbrot, Co-Director of CEPR, regarding the regulatory mechanisms needed to prevent another similar crisis, November 18, 2008.

CEPR Economics Seminar Series:
Basic Economics for Policy Analysis and Self Defense
Audio and video files of ten CEPR lectures on economic issues

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Plunder and Blunder: The Rise and Fall of the Bubble Economy
By Dean Baker
PoliPoint Press (2009)

Thinking Big

Thinking Big: Progressive Ideas for a New Era
With a chapter ("From Financial Crisis to Opportunity") by Dean Baker
Berrett-Koehler Publishers, Inc. (2009)

The United States Since 1980

The United States Since 1980
By Dean Baker
Cambridge University Press (2007)

Truthout Interview

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Institutional Change and Economic Development
edited by Ha-Joon Chang
United Nations University Press (2007)

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Bad Samaritans: The Myth of Free Trade and the Secret History of Capitalism
by Ha-Joon Chang
Bloomsbury Press (2007)

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Ten Years After: Revisiting the Asian Financial Crisis
A free e-book with a chapter by Mark Weisbrot
Woodrow Wilson Center for Scholars, Asia Program (2007)



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