Dean Baker

Dean Baker, senior economist at the Center for Economic and Policy Research, is the author of Rigged: How Globalization and the Rules of the Modern Economy Were Structured to Make the Rich Richer, and co-author (with Jared Bernstein) of Getting Back to Full Employment: A Better Bargain for Working People.

EconomicsNovember 17, 2009

Solution to Unemployment: Pay People to Work Shorter Hours

There is an easy way to get unemployed workers back to work: pay them to work shorter hours.

Dean Baker
BankingSeptember 13, 2007

The Housing Bubble Pops

To solve the subprime mortgage crisis, start with aid for vulnerable homeowners, smarter economic policies and a more competent Federal Reserve Board.

Dean Baker
GovernmentDecember 9, 2004

Anti-Social Security

Click here for info on how to help save social security and click here to send a letter to your elected reps asking them to resist Bush’s plans for social secuirty privatization.

Dean Baker
EconomyAugust 9, 2004

Bush’s House of Cards

As bad as Bush’s economic record is, it would appear far worse if not for the housing bubble.

Dean Baker
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Dean Baker

EconomicsNovember 17, 2009

There is an easy way to get unemployed workers back to work: pay them to work shorter hours.

BankingSeptember 13, 2007

To solve the subprime mortgage crisis, start with aid for vulnerable homeowners, smarter economic policies and a more competent Federal Reserve Board.

GovernmentDecember 9, 2004

Click here for info on how to help save social security and click here to send a letter to your elected reps asking them to resist Bush’s plans for social secuirty privatization.

EconomyAugust 9, 2004

As bad as Bush’s economic record is, it would appear far worse if not for the housing bubble.

The stakes are higher now than ever. Get The Nation in your inbox.