Imagine a developing country where a 43-year-old economist with a PhD from the University of Illinois, who is relatively unknown as a…
Mark Weisbrot
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 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.
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The world is facing unprecedented levels of hunger that are growing every day with food-price increases caused by the Ukraine war. Russia…
The economic sanctions imposed by the United States and its allies are causing widespread, severe hunger in this desperately poor country
This collective punishment is hideously wrong and immoral. The Biden administration can remove the biggest contributing factor with the stroke of a pen. They should do so immediately before it is too late
What’s being proposed here is what most countries with national income comparable to the U.S. already have. Are Americans so different from everyone else?
Allowing the IMF to issue $1.5 trillion in special drawing rights would save countless lives and wouldn’t cost U.S. taxpayers a dime
Advocates for human rights and press freedom, as well as members of Congress, all need to raise their voices in this case before it is too late
