Experts

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Dean Baker, Co-Director                               

Expertise:  Housing, consumer prices, intellectual property, Social Security, Medicare, trade, employment

Dean Baker is the author of The United States Since 1980 (Cambridge University Press); Social Security: The Phony Crisis (with Mark Weisbrot); The Benefits of Full Employment (with Jared Bernstein); Getting Prices Right: The Battle Over the Consumer Price Index; and The Conservative Nanny State: How the Wealthy Use the Government to Stay Rich and Get Richer. 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.

Mark Weisbrot, Co-Director

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. His opinion pieces have appeared in the Washington Post, the Los Angeles Times, the Boston Globe, 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.  

David Rosnick, Research Associate

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 is currently pursuing an M.A. in Economics at the George Washington University.

John Schmitt, Senior Economist                     

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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