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
Dean Baker: Fed Inflation Target Keeping Wages Low, People Out of Jobs
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Dean Baker: Is Globalization to Blame?
By Dean Baker While we cannot accept the racism and misogyny on which Donald Trump’s electoral victory fed, we must reco
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
Lara Merling – Rigged: How Mainstream Economics Failed Us All
By Lara Merling, Economics 101 operates under the observation that “households and firms interacting in markets act a
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