Mark Weisbrot
Mark Weisbrot is an American economist and 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 has written numerous research papers on economic policy, and is co-author, with Dean Baker, of Social Security: The Phony Crisis (University of Chicago Press, 2000), a refutation of prevailing wisdom on reform of the Social Security system in the United States. He has written extensively about the economies of developing countries, with special attention to Latin America. More recently, Weisbrot and others at CEPR have criticized the policies of the International Monetary Fund (IMF), claiming that they "exacerbate the [late-2000s] world economic downturn".[1]
Columnist and author
Weisbrot writes a column for The Guardian,[2] and an opinion column on economic and policy issues that is distributed nationwide by McClatchy-Tribune Information Services.[2] His opinion pieces have appeared in The Washington Post, the Los Angeles Times, The New York Times/International Herald Tribune, The Boston Globe and The Nation. He has written for and been interviewed by online magazines such as Common Dreams NewsCenter,[2] The Huffington Post,[3] and Alternet,[4] both as original work and as republication of syndicated columns. He has appeared on national and local television and radio programs, including CBS, the PBS Newshour, CNN, the BBC, National Public Radio and Fox News.
Latin America
Weisbrot has several times contributed testimony to Congressional hearings, in 2002 to a House of Representatives committee, on Argentina's 1999 - 2002 economic crisis[5] and in 2004 to the US Senate Foreign Relations Committee, on the state of democracy in Venezuela, and on media representation of Hugo Chávez and of Chávez's Venezuela.[6] Weisbrot is also the President of Just Foreign Policy, a non-governmental organization dedicated to reforming United States foreign policy.[7] Weisbrot advised Oliver Stone on South of the Border,[8] a 2009 film about Chavez.
References
- ^ Weisbrot, M. (April 2009). "Empowering the IMF: Should Reform be a Requirement for Increasing the Fund's Resources?". Center for Economic Policy and Research (CEPR). Retrieved 1 February 2010.
{{cite web}}: Unknown parameter|coauthors=ignored (|author=suggested) (help) - ^ a b c "Mark Weisbrot: Op-Eds and Columns". Center for Economic and Policy Research (CEPR). Retrieved January 24, 2010.
- ^ "Mark Weisbrot". The Huffington Post. Retrieved January 24, 2010.
- ^ Weisbrot, Mark (August 28, 2003). "Labor Day 2003: Nothing to celebrate". alternet.org. Retrieved January 24, 2010.
- ^ 5 March 2002, Argentina’s Economic Meltdown: Causes and Remedies
- ^ "Testimony of Mark Weisbrot on the state of democracy in Venezuela" (PDF). Retrieved 2009-02-07.
- ^ Just Foreign Policy, Board, accessed 13 March 2009
- ^ "Chavez gets red-carpet treatment in Venice". MSNBC. September 7, 2009. Retrieved January 23, 2010. Also here.
External links
- "Latvia's Recession: The Cost of Adjustment With An "Internal Devaluation"". February 2010. Retrieved February 9, 2010.
- "Bolivia: The Economy During the Morales Administration". December 2009. Retrieved February 9, 2010.
- [1] New York Times, August 11, 2009 article titled More of the Same in Latin America.
- [2] Los Angeles Times, July 23, 2009 article titled The high-powered hidden support for Honduras' coup.