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Expertise: Housing, consumer prices, intellectual property, Social Security, Medicare, trade, employment
Dean Baker is the author of The End of Loser Liberalism: Making Markets Progressive, Taking Economics Seriously, False Profits: Recovering from the Bubble Economy, Plunder and Blunder: The Rise and Fall of the Bubble Economy, The United States Since 1980, The Conservative Nanny State: How the Wealthy Use the Government to Stay Rich and Get Richer, Social Security: The Phony Crisis (with Mark Weisbrot), and The Benefits of Full Employment (with Jared Bernstein). He was the editor of Getting Prices Right: The Debate Over the Consumer Price Index, which was a winner of a Choice Book Award as one of the outstanding academic books of the year. He appears frequently on TV and radio programs, including CNN, CBS News, PBS NewsHour, and National Public Radio. His blog, Beat the Press, features commentary on economic reporting. He received his B.A. from Swarthmore College and his Ph.D. in economics from the University of Michigan.
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Expertise: Economic growth, trade, Social Security, Latin America, international financial institutions, development
Mark Weisbrot received his Ph.D. in economics from the University of Michigan. He is co-author, with Dean Baker, of Social Security: The Phony Crisis (University of Chicago Press, 2000), and has written numerous research papers on economic policy. He writes a column on economic and policy issues that is distributed to over 550 newspapers by McClatchy-Tribune Information Services. He also writes a bi-weekly column for Brazil’s largest newspaper, Folha de São Paulo. His opinion pieces have appeared in The Guardian, New York Times, the Washington Post, the Los Angeles Times and most major U.S. newspapers. He appears regularly on national and local television and radio programs. He is also president of Just Foreign Policy.
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Expertise: Workforce, employment, labor, women workers, work-life balance, workplace practices, labor-management cooperation
Dr. Eileen Appelbaum previously served as director of the Rutgers Center for Women and Work. During her tenure, Dr. Appelbaum built the Center into a major locus for research on women's advancement in the labor market and at the workplace. The Center undertook numerous projects that were aimed at understanding and improving the lives of working women at all income levels. Prior to taking over the Center at Rutgers she was the research director at the Economic Policy Institute. She previously had been a professor of economics at Temple University.
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Expertise: Federal budget, trade, Social Security
David Rosnick has written numerous policy papers including, The Burden of Social Security Taxes and the Burden of Excessive Health Care Costs with Dean Baker, March 2005; Poor Numbers: The Impact of Trade Liberalization on World Poverty, with Mark Weisbrot and Dean Baker, November 2004; NAFTA at Ten: The Recount, with Mark Weisbrot and Dean Baker, March 2004. He is the architect of CEPR's online calculators, including the Housing Cost Calculator, which compares the cost of owning a home relative to renting. He received his Ph.D. in Computer Science from North Carolina State University and his M.A. in Economics from George Washington University.
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Expertise: Economic inequality, unemployment, U.S./Europe labor economics and the welfare state, unions
John Schmitt has written extensively on unemployment, economic inequality, and the welfare state. He has worked as a consultant for national and international organizations including the American Center for International Labor Solidarity, the Global Policy Network, the International Labor Organization, the United Nations Economic Commission for Latin America. He is also a visiting lecturer at the Pompeu Fabra University in Barcelona. He holds a B.A. in public policy at Princeton University and an M.Sc. and Ph.D. in economics from the London School of Economics.
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