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
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
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
IREE, August 28, 2020
Lives Depend on Argentina’s Debt Talks
The New York Times, May 19, 2020
Selected Articles and Publications
The Guardian, September 18, 2020
June 22, 2020; by Alexander Main, Mark Weisbrot, and Didier Jacobs
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
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, 2018
Economic 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, 2018
The 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