Mark Weisbrot
Bio
weisbrot [at] cepr.net
Mark Weisbrot is Co-Director of the Center for Economic and Policy Research in Washington, D.C. He received his Ph.D. in economics from the University of Michigan. He is author of the book Failed: What the "Experts" Got Wrong About the Global Economy (Oxford University Press, 2015), 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 regular column on economic and policy issues that is distributed to over 550 newspapers by the Tribune Content Agency. His opinion pieces have appeared in The New York Times, The Washington Post, the Los Angeles Times, The Guardian, and almost every major US newspaper, as well as in Brazil’s largest newspaper, Folha de São Paulo. He appears regularly on national and local television and radio programs.
Most Recent
The IMF and Special Drawing Rights: Saving Lives, Backlash and Attempted Coup, and Structural Reform
November 30, 2021
Op-ed: Setting the Record Straight About What Biden's Proposed Social Programs Would Do
Los Angeles Times, November 8, 2021MarketWatch, September 17, 2021
Labor Day: US Labor's Future May Depend on Monetary and Fiscal Policy
Houston Chronicle, September 3, 2021Interview with Kris Welch on macroeconomics and the Fed
KPFA, September 9, 2021What’s at Stake in the Inflation Debate?
The Guardian, July 22, 2021Trump Started a War on Journalism. Biden has Yet to End it
Los Angeles Times, July 6, 2021Bolivia After the 2019 Coup: Economic Policy
June 1, 2021; by Jake Johnston, Joe Sammut, Mark Weisbrot, and Miguel Carvalho
Ecuador: Democracy Should Not Be Derailed by False Claims of Fraud
MarketWatch, February 24, 2021Why Partisanship Will Increase in the Post-Trump Era
MarketWatch, January 4, 2021
Raw Story, December 22, 2020Bolivians Reclaim Their Democracy
The Nation, October 21, 2020Republican Attempts to Suppress the Vote Must be Stopped
MarketWatch, October 5, 2020If You Could Save a Million Lives, Would You Do It?
The Hill, October 2, 2020Thirteen Former Latin American Presidents Warn of Severe Threat to Democracy in Ecuador
September 23, 2020
Press Release | Statement [ES]
Labor Day under Coronavirus and Depression: What is Our Government Doing to Labor?
The Sacramento Bee, and 19 others, September 4, 2020
Selected Articles and Publications
- The Guardian, September 18, 2020
June 22, 2020; by Alexander Main, Mark Weisbrot, and Didier Jacobs
This Obscure Financial Tool Could Help Global South Countries That Are Drowning in the Pandemic
Interview with In These Times, August 11, 2021Who Is to Blame for Argentina’s Economic Crisis?
The New York Times, August 19, 2019Bolivia’s Economic Transformation: Macroeconomic Policies, Institutional Changes and Results
October 2019; by Andrés Arauz, Mark Weisbrot, Andrew Bunker and Jake Johnston
Brazil’s Democracy Pushed Into the Abyss
The New York Times, January 23, 2018"Headwinds to Growth": The IMF Program in Ecuador
July 2019; by Mark Weisbrot and Andrés Arauz
How Congress Can End the War in Yemen
The New York Review of Books, September 14, 2018Economic Sanctions as Collective Punishment: The Case of Venezuela
April 2019; by Mark Weisbrot and Jeffrey Sachs
Labor Has Lost Much in Past Four Decades, and Fed Threatens Recent Gains
Los Angeles Times, and 19 others, August 31, 2018- Los Angeles Times, and 7 others, May 30, 2019
The Transatlantic Alliance Will Survive Trump
The Nation, and 3 others, August 27, 2018The Pact for Mexico After Five Years: How Has It Fared?
June 2018; by Mark Weisbrot, Lara Merling, Rebecca Watts, and Jake Johnston
Puerto Rico Needs Economic Recovery First, Not “Structural Reforms” and Debt Service Extraction
Testimony of Mark Weisbrot, Co-Director at the Center for Economic and Policy Research, to bipartisan group hosted by Congresswoman Nydia M. Velázquez; March 20, 2018
The Threats, Real and Imagined, of Mexico’s Election
The New York Review of Books, and 1 other, March 9, 2018