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Reports

More Good Jobs

November 2012, Shawn Fremstad

Debt, Deficits, and Demographics: Why We Can Afford the Social Contract

November 2012, Dean Baker

Reducing Inequality and Insecurity: Rethinking Labor and Employment Policy for the 21st Century

November 2012, Eileen Appelbaum

The Problem with Structural Unemployment in the U.S.

October 2012, Dean Baker

Bad Jobs on the Rise

September 2012, John Schmitt and Janelle Jones

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Op-Eds & Columns

What Apple's CEO Gets All Wrong About Corporate Taxes

Eileen Appelbaum
Economic Intelligence (U.S. News & World Report), May 21, 2013

Destroying the Lair of the Budget-Balancing Cretins

Dean Baker

Al Jazeera English, May 13, 2013

Crashing the 90 Percent Club: The Importance of the Reinhart-Rogoff Error

Dean Baker
Caixin Online, April 23, 2013

Deficits are Bad and the Sun Goes Around the Earth

Dean Baker
Truthout, April 22, 2013

Did a Spreadsheet Error Cost You Your Job?

Dean Baker
The Exchange (Yahoo! Finance), April 17, 2013

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Events

Equity and the Future of the American Economy

The Downturn: How We Got Here and Why it Will Be Long

The Fiscal Cliff: New Heights of Sensationalism

Community Cinema Screening of 'As Goes Janesville'

Threats to Medicare: The Election and the Lame Duck Congress

Metrics of Recovery: Arizona and U.S. Housing Markets After the Bubble

After Austerity

Debts and Deficits: Combating Recession in the U.S., Latin America, and Eurozone

Tax Equity: Paying Fair

Recovering from the Bubble Economy: Jobs, Wages and Unemployment

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Press Releases

Statement on the Financial Transaction Tax and Harkin-Defazio Bill

February 28, 2013

Share of Bad Jobs Has Risen Since 1979

September 5, 2012

The Share of Good Jobs has Fallen Since 1979
July 31, 2012

The Billion Dollar Question: What is the Impact of Private Equity on Workers and Companies?
May 14, 2012

Work Sharing Could Save States $1.7 Billion Per Year
May 8, 2012

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The IMF`s Crisis Lending: Cuts in Social Spending Demanded for Poor Countries as G8 Plans Stimulus, Media briefing featuring CEPR Co-Director Mark Weisbrot, Peter Bujari, executive director of the Human Development Trust in Tanzania and Inga Paparde, Latvian AIDS activist and journalist, and Joanne Carter, executive director RESULTS Educational Fund.

Economists Question IMF`s "Firefighting" Abilities in Current Economic Crisis, Media briefing featuring CEPR Co-Director Mark Weisbrot, Robert Weissman, Director of Essential Action, and Joanne Carter, Executive Director, RESULTS Educational Fund.


Global Financial Stability: What Role for the IMF?, Discussion featuring Dean Baker and Mark Weisbrot, Co-Directors at CEPR.


Latin America`s Economic Prospects as the U.S. Economy Slows
Discussion featuring Mark Weisbrot of CEPR and Anne Krueger, former World Bank Chief Economist and first Deputy Managing Director of the International Monetary Fund.

Why the World Isn`t Flat: The Truth About Globalization and the Secret History of Capitalism
Book talk
featuring CEPR Senior Research Associate Ha-Joon Chang on his book, Bad Samaritans: The Myth of Free Trade and the Secret History of Capitalism. The New America Foundation and CEPR co-sponsored this event that aired on C-SPAN`s BookTV. February 1, 2008.

CEPR Data Bytes
Same-day analyses of government data on employment, inflation, corporate profitability, GDP and other topics.

IFIwatchnet

IFI Watchnet
This international network connects organizations researching the international financial institutions such as the World Bank, the IMF, and regional development banks.

Institutional Change and Economic Development Book Cover

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

Bad Samaritans

Bad Samaritans:
The Myth of Free Trade and the Secret History of Capitalism

by Ha-Joon Chang
Bloomsbury Press (2007)

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Neoliberalism, Globalization and Inequalities:
Consequences for Health and Quality of Life

with a chapter by Mark Weisbrot, Dean Baker and David Rosnick
Baywood Publishing Co. (2007)

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