Economics
Dean Baker: NYT Does Public Relations Work for Emmanuel Macron
One probably calls this international reactionary solidarity. Read here
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Corruption
Dean Baker – Technology, Patents, and Inequality: An Explanation that Even Economists Can Understand
Monopolies do not naturally happen, they are the product of government policy. Dean Baker is a Senior Economist at the Center for Economic and Policy Research (CEPR) Cross-posted from Dean Baker’s Beat The Press Blog […]
Economics
Dean Baker – The Crushing Burden of Japan’s Debt and Other Scare Stories for Small Children
This is even more relevant for the EU, where interest rates are even much lower, some negative, than in the United States. Dean Baker is a Senior Economist at the Center for Economic and Policy […]
Climate Crisis
Dean Baker – Greenhouse Gas Emissions and the Right to Dump Sewage on Your Lawn
Good. Baker’s ideas of what money should be spent on to reduce Green House Gases are debatable. More important is the issue of how much could be redirected to this from subsidies for fossil fuel. […]
Economics
Dean Baker – Trade Deals Are About Increasing Protectionist Barriers
A short, but good take on what trade agreements are really about. Dean Baker is a Senior Economist at the Center for Economic and Policy Research (CEPR) Cross-posted from Dean Baker’s Beat The Press Blog […]
Economics
Dean Baker – Simple Economics that Most Economists Don’t Know
“For this holiday season, I will give three big items that are apparently too simple for economists to understand.” Especially interesting in point 3! Also an article for non-economists Dean Baker is a Senior Economist […]
Austerity
Dean Baker – Combatting Global Warming and Austerity
“Most of Europe is in a situation where it could easily make large commitments toward increased spending on clean energy, mass transit, and conservation at essentially no economic cost.” Dean Baker is a Senior Economist […]
Economics
The Real News Network: The MMT Debate With Dean Baker & Randall Wray
Modern Money Theory, or MMT— is it way to fund the Green New Deal? For the transcript go here
Austerity
Dean Baker – Why Do the Media Provide Cover for Austerity Cranks, Like the Folks Running the EU?
Just because the EU has declared austerity is over, it is not. To the contrary it is continuing unabated in reality, just not according to state and corporate media. Dean Baker is an American macroeconomist […]
Finance
Joseph E. Stiglitz , Dean Baker , Arjun Jayadev: Intellectual Property for the Twenty-First-Century Economy
Intellectual property rights have become the biggest monopoly scam in the world. They have been supported by the World Trade Organisation, which in turn is dominated by those nations home to these monopolistic multinationals. The […]