Mark Weisbrot

@markweisbrot

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.

• Ecuador: Democracy Should Not Be Derailed by False Claims of Fraud

  MarketWatch, February 24, 2021

• Why Partisanship Will Increase in the Post-Trump Era

  MarketWatch, January 4, 2021

• A Tale of Two Elections

  Raw Story, December 22, 2020

• Bolivians Reclaim Their Democracy

  The Nation, October 21, 2020

• Republican Attempts to Suppress the Vote Must be Stopped

  MarketWatch, October 5, 2020

• If You Could Save a Million Lives, Would You Do It?

  The Hill, October 2, 2020

• Thirteen Former Latin American Presidents Warn of Severe Threat to Democracy in Ecuador

  September 23, 2020

  Press Release | Statement [ES]

• Interview with Mark Weisbrot on the US Election, the Brazilian Economy, and US-Brazil Relations

  Carta Capital, September 6, 2020

• Labor Day under Coronavirus and Depression: What is Our Government Doing to Labor?

  The Sacramento Bee, and 19 others, September 4, 2020

• Brief Interview with Mark Weisbrot on the US Election, the Trump Presidency, and the Impact of Protests

  IREE, August 28, 2020

• Lives Depend on Argentina’s Debt Talks

  The New York Times, May 19, 2020

• More Articles and Publications

• What the OAS Did to Bolivia

  The Guardian, September 18, 2020

• The World Economy Needs a Stimulus: IMF Special Drawing Rights Are Critical to Containing the Pandemic and Boosting the World Economy

  June 22, 2020; by Alexander Main, Mark Weisbrot, and Didier Jacobs

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• Who Is to Blame for Argentina’s Economic Crisis?

  The New York Times, August 19, 2019

• Bolivia’s Economic Transformation: Macroeconomic Policies, Institutional Changes and Results

  October 2019; by Andrés Arauz, Mark Weisbrot, Andrew Bunker and Jake Johnston

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• 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

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• How Congress Can End the War in Yemen

  The New York Review of Books, September 14, 2018

• Economic Sanctions as Collective Punishment: The Case of Venezuela

  April 2019; by Mark Weisbrot and Jeffrey Sachs

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• Labor Has Lost Much in Past Four Decades, and Fed Threatens Recent Gains

  Los Angeles Times, and 19 others, August 31, 2018

• Puerto Rico’s Botched Disaster Relief, Unsustainable Debt, and Economic Failure Linked to its Colonial Status

  Los Angeles Times, and 7 others, May 30, 2019

• The Transatlantic Alliance Will Survive Trump

  The Nation, and 3 others, August 27, 2018

• The Pact for Mexico After Five Years: How Has It Fared?

  June 2018; by Mark Weisbrot, Lara Merling, Rebecca Watts, and Jake Johnston

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• 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