Just How Democratic Is Mexico?
[youtube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9me1NxrG-ns&w=760&h=500] As neoliberalism caused greater
Innovation, Intellectual Property, and Development: A Better Set of Approaches for the 21st Century
By Dean Baker, Arjun Jayadev and Joseph Stiglitz. From the abstract: This paper aims to provide an intellectual basis t
The French Economy, European Authorities, and the IMF: “Structural Reform” or Increasing Employment?
By Mark Weisbrot, Lara Merling, Alexander Main, and David Rosnick: This paper looks at two competing views among econo
Dean Baker: Fed Inflation Target Keeping Wages Low, People Out of Jobs
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Brazil’s Enormous Interest Rate Tax: Can Brazilians Afford It?
By Mark Weisbrot, Jake Johnston, and Julia Villarruel Carrillo This paper looks at Brazil’s unusually high interest
Lara Merling and Dean Baker: The Housing Bubble, Is It Back?
By Lara Merling and Dean Baker, In the last decade, there was an unprecedented run-up in house prices in most parts of the
New book by Dean Baker: Rigged, How Globalization and Rules of the Modern Economy Make Rich Richer
From the Center for Economic and Policy Research: There has been an enormous upward redistribution of income in the Uni
Dean Baker: The Old Debt and Entitlement Charade
By Dean Baker, The establishment is trying to pull a big one over on the public yet again. One of the designated topics for
TANF didn’t fight poverty, full employment did
By Virginia Rutter Welfare reform hits 20 this month. The Center for Economic and Policy Research has done much work exa
Has the Left Run its Course in Latin America?
By Mark Weisbrot Hardly. Despite recent setbacks, it has led the region’s “second independence,” benefiting hundre