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CEPR examines how U.S. and international government policies affect economic growth, employment, prices, poverty and health.


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Transcript: 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.

Transcript and Audio: 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.

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


Reports

Update on the Ecuadorian Economy
June 2009, Mark Weisbrot and Luis Sandoval

Paid Sick Days Don't Cause Unemployment
June 2009, John Schmitt, Hye Jin Rho, Alison Earle, and Jody Heymann

U.S. Unemployment Now As High as Europe
May 2009, John Schmitt, Hye Jin Rho, and Shawn Fremstad

Estimating the Cost of Contributions to the IMF
May 2009, Mark Weisbrot and David Rosnick

The State and Local Drag on the Stimulus
May 2009, Dean Baker and Rivka Deutsch

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Op-Eds & Columns

Yes, We Can Tax Those Wall Street Bastards
Dean Baker
The Guardian Unlimited, June 30, 2009

The Global Warming Lie Detector
Dean Baker
Truthout, June 29, 2009

Making Financial Regulation Work: A Systemic Risk Regulator
Dean Baker
Washington Post, June 22, 2009

American Voters Want Congressional Investigations: Will Democrats Seize the Opportunity for 2010?
Mark Weisbrot     
The Guardian Unlimited, June 18, 2009

Obama Plan Improves Regulatory Structure but Doesn’t Address Accountability
Dean Baker
June 17, 2009

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Press Releases

New CEPR Paper Assesses the Ecuadorian Economy Under Correa
June 24, 2009

U.S. Treasury Responds to CEPR's Cost Estimate for IMF Funding; CEPR Responds
June 15, 2009

Better Paid Sick Day Policies Don’t Mean Job Loss
June 11, 2009

New Funds for IMF Approved by U.S. Senate Would Worsen Global Economic Downturn, Economists Say
May 22, 2009

State & Local Budget Shortfalls to Blunt Effect of ARRA
May 4, 2009

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Other Resources

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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