Mark Weisbrot
Mark Weisbrot is Co-Director of the Center for Economic and
Policy Research in Washington, D.C. He is 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. Weisbrot writes a column on
economic and policy issues that is distributed to over 550
newspapers by Knight-Ridder/Tribune Information Services. His
opinion pieces have appeared in the Washington Post,
the Los Angeles Times, the Boston Globe,
and most major U.S. newspapers. He appears regularly on national
and local television and radio programs. Weisbrot
received his Ph.D. in economics from the University of Michigan.
