Biography

<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><font color="#333333"><font size="2"><span class="pageintro1"><span lang="FR" style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">Mark Weisbrot is 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 is co-author, with Dean Baker, of </span></span><em><span lang="FR" style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">Social Security: The Phony Crisis</span></em></font><span class="pageintro1"><span lang="FR" style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";"><font size="2"> (University of Chicago Press, 2000), and has written numerous research papers on economic policy.</font></span></span></font><span lang="FR" style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";"><br />
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<font size="2"><span class="pageintro1"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">He writes a column on economic and policy issues that is distributed to over 550 newspapers by McClatchy-Tribune Information Services. His opinion pieces have appeared in the</span></span><em><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";"> Washington Post</span></em><span class="pageintro1"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">, the </span></span><em><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">Los Angeles Times</span></em><span class="pageintro1"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">, the </span></span><em><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">Boston Globe</span></em><span class="pageintro1"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">, and most major U.S. newspapers. He appears regularly on national and local television and radio programs. He is also president of <a href="http://www.justforeignpolicy.org/"><strong><font color="#054785">Just Foreign Policy</font></strong></a>.</span></span></font></span><span class="pageintro1"><span lang="FR" style="font-size: 8.5pt; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";"><o:p></o:p></span></span></p> 

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