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I have had many people ask me if there is not a better way to fight inflation than the current route of…
Dean Baker
Dean Baker is co-director of the Center for Economic and Policy Research in Washington, DC.
Dean previously worked as a senior economist at the Economic Policy Institute and an assistant professor at Bucknell University. He has also worked as a consultant for the World Bank, the Joint Economic Committee of the U.S. Congress, and the OECD's Trade Union Advisory Council.
The standard line in policy circles about the soaring inequality of the last four decades is that it is just an unfortunate…
With the data we have seen from the last few months, it’s fair to say that no one has a very good…
I just read this NYT column by Bryan Stryker, on how Democrats can win back the working class. I have no idea how its…
It is striking that so many people are anxious to wrongly blame the costs of China’s zero COVID-19 policy on its rejection of US-made mRNA vaccines
It is expensive to have a large segment of the population living in Never-Never Land
If China wants a path through its “demographic crisis,” or, in other words, coping with secular stagnation, devoting substantial resources towards greening its economy would be a great path forward
By allowing the pandemic to spread largely unchecked in the developing world, we gave it the opportunity to mutate into more vaccine-resistant forms that will continue to reverberate in the months and years to come
The Biden administration, with the overwhelming support of the foreign policy establishment, seems determined to start a new Cold War with China
The laws on intellectual property are designed to make a relatively small number of people very rich. In doing so, they not only make everyone else poorer, but they also cost millions or even tens of millions of lives