Dean Baker is currently Co-Director of the Center for Economic and Policy Research. Formerly he was Senior Research Fellow at the Preamble Center in Washington, D.C. and The Century Foundation in New York; previous to that he was a Senior Economist at the Economic Policy Institute in Washington. His writing has appeared in the Atlantic Monthly, Washington Post, American Prospect , and Challenge, among many other publications. He has also appeared on PBS` Lehrer Newshour, Fox News, NPR, Counterspin, and numerous other television and radio programs.
SELECTED PUBLICATIONS:
"The
Regressive Impact of the Progressive Indexation of Social Security Benefits,"
(Center for Economic and Policy Research, 2005)
"The
Burden of Social Security Taxes and the Burden of Health Care Costs,"
(Center for Economic and Policy Research, 2005)
"The
Social Security Shortfall and the National Defense Shortfall," (Center
for Economic and Policy Research, 2005)
"Saving Social
Security with Stocks: The Promises Don't Add Up," (The Century Foundation,
2001)
"Pensions for the
21st Century," (The Century Foundation, 2000)
Social
Security: The Phony Crisis, coauthor with Mark Weisbrot (University
of Chicago Press, 2000)
"The Full Returns
from Social Security," (The Century Foundation, Economic Policy Institute,
1998)
ARTICLES:
"A Phony
Crisis Fed by Deception," coauthor with Mark Weisbrot, The Boston Globe,
3/4/03
"Social
Security Report Kept from Terrorists," Center for Economic and Policy
Research, 3/27/02
"Social Security's
Real Problem—Trust Fund Theft," coauthor with Mark Weisbrot, Center
for Economic Policy Research, July 19, 2001
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