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To schedule an interview, please contact our media team. Dean Baker, Co-Director 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.
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 Guardian, New York Times, the Washington Post, the Los Angeles Times and most major U.S. newspapers, as well as for Brazil’s largest newspaper, Folha de Sao Paulo. He appears regularly on national and local television and radio programs. He is also president of Just Foreign Policy. Eileen Appelbaum, Senior Economist Expertise: Private Equity, workforce, employment, labor, women workers, work-life balance, workplace practices, labor-management cooperation Dr. Eileen Appelbaum joined the Center for Economic Policy and Research in 2010 after eight years as Professor in the School of Management and Labor Relations and Director of the Center for Women and Work at Rutgers University. Her research focuses on implications of public policy and company practices for organizational effectiveness and employee outcomes. She has a new book coauthored with Ruth Milkman, Unfinished Business: Paid Family Leave in California and the Future of U.S. Work-Family Policy, forthcoming from Cornell University Press in Fall 2013. She is currently working on a book with Rosemary Batt (Private Equity at Work) that examines the effects of private equity ownership on managerial decision making, firm sustainability, employment relations and worker outcomes. She has published numerous articles in leading academic journals. Three of her earlier books were selected by Princeton University for its distinguished list of Noteworthy Books in Industrial Relations and Labor Economics – The New American Workplace (1994), Manufacturing Advantage (2000), and Low Wage America (2003). She is currently working on a new book with Rose Batt titled,. She has held visiting positions in leading business schools in the UK, New Zealand and Australia and at the WissenschaftszentrumBerlin. In 2010 she was President of the Labor and Employment Relations Association. She holds a PhD in economics from the University of Pennsylvania. David Rosnick, Economist 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.
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. See Also |
