Dean Baker
Dean Baker is a macroeconomist and codirector of the Center for Economic and Policy Research in Washington, DC. He previously worked as a senior economist at the Economic Policy Institute and an assistant professor at Bucknell University. He is a regular Truthout columnist and a member of Truthout's Board of Advisers.
Other articles by this author
The Supreme Court and the Democrats' Preemptive Surrender on Obamacare
By Dean Baker, Truthout | Op-Ed
February's Strongest Wage Growth in Lowest Paying Sectors
By Dean Baker, The Center for Economic and Policy Research | Report
The Federal Reserve Board's Plan to Kill Jobs
By Dean Baker, Truthout | Op-Ed
Trade Crazy: The Push for Fast-Track Trade Authority
By Dean Baker, Truthout | Op-Ed
Economy Adds 257,000 Jobs in January
By Dean Baker, The Center for Economic and Policy Research | Report
Is Hillary Clinton in the Bottom 3 Percent? Turning the Corner on CEO Pay
By Dean Baker, Truthout | Op-Ed
Why Rand Paul Is Wrong About Social Security Disability
By Dean Baker, Truthout | Op-Ed
Democrats Take on Wall Street With Financial Transactions Tax
By Dean Baker, Truthout | News Analysis
Dean Baker | Idea for Tackling Inequality Number 27,653: Stop Subsidizing It
By Dean Baker, Truthout | Op-Ed
Dean Baker | Does the University of Michigan's New Football Coach Need Food Stamps?
By Dean Baker, Truthout | Op-Ed
New Year's Resolutions: Ten Ways to Combat Upward Redistribution of Income
By Dean Baker, Truthout | Op-Ed
The Trade Agreement Pinatas
By Dean Baker, Truthout | Op-Ed
Economic Policy Myths of 2014: Dead and Enduring
By Dean Baker, Truthout | Op-Ed
Benefits of Obamacare: More People Are Able to Work Less
By Dean Baker, Truthout | Op-Ed
The Paid Vacation Route to Full Employment
By Dean Baker, Truthout | Op-Ed
Public Schools and Logic 101 for George Will
By Dean Baker, Center for Economic and Policy Research | Op-Ed
Dean Baker | Seven Years After: Why This Recovery Is Still a Turkey
By Dean Baker, Truthout | Op-Ed
Paying Off Student Debt Is Saving
By Dean Baker, Center for Economic and Policy Research | Op-Ed
Kevin Drum Doesn't Like Postal Banking: A Reply
By Dean Baker, CEPR | Op-Ed
Dean Baker | The Problem of "Stupid" in Economics
By Dean Baker, Truthout | Op-Ed
Dean Baker | Election Results Indicate Huge Mandate for New Trade Pacts
By Dean Baker, Truthout | Op-Ed
Will Democrats Be Able to Talk Seriously About the Economy in 2016?
By Dean Baker, Truthout | News Analysis
Germany Leaves the Euro Zone, and the Problem Is?
By Dean Baker, Center for Economic and Policy Research | Op-Ed
The Post Tells Us the Economy Is SO Complicated
By Dean Baker, Center for Economic and Policy Research | Op-Ed
The Ebola Vaccine, Traffic Congestion and Global Warming
By Dean Baker, Truthout | Op-Ed
The Unmentionable Trade Deficit Doesn't Appear Again
By Dean Baker, Center for Economic and Policy Research | Op-Ed
Ebola Hysteria Fever: A Real Epidemic
By Dean Baker, Truthout | Op-Ed
The Deficit Is Down and the Deficit Hawks Are Furious
By Dean Baker, Truthout | Op-Ed
The Good News and Bad News About 5.9 Percent Unemployment
By Dean Baker, Truthout | Op-Ed
Eric Holder: The Reason Robert Rubin Isn't Behind Bars
By Dean Baker, Truthout | Op-Ed
The Mysteries of Inequality Are Only Mysterious to Elites
By Dean Baker, Truthout | Op-Ed
State and Local Pension Funds Face a Shortfall Equal to 0.3 Percent of GDP
By Dean Baker, Center for Economic and Policy Research | News Analysis
The Myth That Sold the Financial Bailout
By Dean Baker, Campaign for America's Future | Op-Ed
Obamacare and Family Values: Parents Get to Stay Home With Children
By Dean Baker, Truthout | Op-Ed
The Inflation Fighters Want to Increase the Debt Burden on Our Children
By Dean Baker, Truthout | Op-Ed
Pace of Job Growth Slows Further in August
By Dean Baker, Center for Economic and Policy Research | Report
Labor Day Victories to Celebrate
By Dean Baker, Truthout | Op-Ed
Should Taxpayers Subsidize the Pay of College Presidents?
By Dean Baker, Center for Economic Policy and Research | Op-Ed
New York Times Condemns French for Believing In Economics
By Dean Baker, Center for Economic and Policy Research | Report
Truth Has No Place in the Attack of Inflation Hawks
By Dean Baker, Truthout | Op-Ed
Robert Rubin and Martin Feldstein Discover Bubbles
By Dean Baker, Truthout | Op-Ed
Dean Baker | The Entitlement of the Very Rich
By Dean Baker, Truthout | Op-Ed
Inflation Hawks: The Job Killers at the Fed
By Dean Baker, Truthout | Op-Ed
Job Growth Slows in July
By Dean Baker, Center for Economic and Policy Research | News Analysis
Finance in the United States: Promoting Inequality and Waste
By Dean Baker, Truthout | Op-Ed
Dean Baker | Cheap Talk at the Fed
By Dean Baker, Truthout | Op-Ed
Fun Accounting and the Export-Import Bank
By Dean Baker, Truthout | Op-Ed
GDP and the Public Sector
By Dean Baker, Center for Economic Policy and Research | Op-Ed
The Good News About Obamacare in the June Jobs Report
By Dean Baker, Truthout | Op-Ed
Strong Job Growth Continues in June
By Dean Baker, Center for Economic Policy and Research | News Analysis
Will India Be the Uber of the Pharmaceutical Industry?
By Dean Baker, Truthout | Op-Ed
Dean Baker | The Sharing Economy and the Mystery of the Mystery of Inequality
By Dean Baker, Truthout | Op-Ed
Doing for the Poor and Doing to the Poor
By Dean Baker, Truthout | Op-Ed
Why Do Coal Mining Jobs Matter So Much More Than Jobs Lost to Trade?
By Dean Baker, Truthout | Op-Ed
The Veterans Affairs Scandal and Plans for Downsizing the Social Security Administration
By Dean Baker, Truthout | Op-Ed
The Wall Street Pension Scam
By Dean Baker, Truthout | Op-Ed
The New York Times Turns Paul Krugman Into His Opposite
By Dean Baker, Truthout | Op-Ed
What Problem Is Privatizing Fannie and Freddie Meant to Solve?
By Dean Baker, Truthout | Op-Ed
Dean Baker | Economic Policy in a Post-Piketty World
By Dean Baker, Truthout | Op-Ed
The Hedge Fund Managers Tax Break: Because Wall Streeters Want Your Money
By Dean Baker, Truthout | Op-Ed
Ending Tax Breaks for Super-Rich Can Make Tax Day Fun for Rest of Us
By Dean Baker, The Fresno Bee | Op-Ed
Obamacare: First Fruits for Workers?
By Dean Baker, Truthout | Op-Ed
The Tax Code in Action: Charity Starts at the Top
By Dean Baker, Truthout | Op-Ed
Dean Baker | The Texas-California Job Growth Derby
By Dean Baker, Truthout | News Analysis
Money in Hyping the Generational War Story
By Dean Baker, Truthout | Op-Ed
The New York Times Budget Reporting Looks Like RT on Ukraine
By Dean Baker, Truthout | News Analysis
Economy Adds 175,000 Jobs in February, Despite Bad Weather
By Dean Baker, Center for Economic and Policy Research | Report
President Obama, the Do-Gooder
By Dean Baker, Truthout | Op-Ed
Is Obamacare Bad News for the "It's Hard to Find Good Help" Crowd?
By Dean Baker, Truthout | News Analysis
Corporate Cronyism: The Secret to Overpaid CEOs
By Dean Baker, Truthout | Op-Ed
The Good Jobs News on the Affordable Care Act
By Dean Baker, Truthout | News Analysis
The Attack of the Robots: Economists' Silly Fantasies
By Dean Baker, Truthout | Op-Ed
President Obama's Inequality Story
By Dean Baker, Truthout | Op-Ed
Dean Baker | The Trans-Pacific Partnership: Warnings From NAFTA
By Dean Baker, Truthout | News Analysis
Medical Travel: If Bill Gates Wanted to Do Something Good for the World
By Dean Baker, Truthout | Op-Ed
Obamacare and Those Invincible Youngsters
By Dean Baker, Truthout | Op-Ed