Dean Baker (born July 13, 1958) is an American macroeconomist and co-director of the Center for Economic and Policy Research. He previously was a senior economist at the Economic Policy Institute and an assistant professor of economics at Bucknell University. He has a Ph.D. in economics from the University of Michigan. His B.A. is from Swarthmore College. Macroeconomics is the study of the entire economy in terms of the total amount of goods and services produced, total income earned, the level of employment of productive resources, and the general behavior of prices. ... The Center for Economic and Policy Research (CEPR) is an economic policy think-tank based in Washington, D.C. It was founded by economists and current co-directors Dean Baker and Mark Weisbrot in 1999, according to the organizations website. ... The Economic Policy Institute or EPI is a progressive United States think tank based in Washington, D.C. and concerned with, as its name implies, the formulation of economic policy. ... Bucknell University is a private university located along the Susquehanna River in the rolling countryside of Central Pennsylvania in the town of Lewisburg, 60 miles (97 km) north of Harrisburg. ... The University of Michigan, Ann Arbor (U of M, U-M or simply Michigan) is a coeducational public research university in the state of Michigan, and one of the foremost universities in the United States. ... A Bachelor of Arts (B.A. or A.B.) is an undergraduate academic degree awarded for a course or program in the arts and/or sciences. ... Swarthmore College is a private, independent, liberal arts college in the United States with an enrollment of about 1,450 students. ...

He is the author of a number of books including:

• Baker, Dean (2007). The United States Since 1980. Cambridge University Press. ISBN 9780521677554. 
• Baker, Dean (2006). The Conservative Nanny State: How the Wealthy Use the Government to Stay Rich and Get Richer. Washington, D.C.: Center for Economic and Policy Research. ISBN 1411693957. 
• Weisbrot, Mark (1999). Social Security: The Phony Crisis. University of Chicago. ISBN 9780226035444. 
• Baker, Dean (1997). Getting Prices Right: The Battle Over the Consumer Price Index. New York: M.E. Sharpe. ISBN 9780765602213.  (winner of the 1998 Choice Book Award)

He also authors the weblog Beat The Press, where he regularly critiques economic reporting.

External links

• CEPR bio
• Weblog: Beat The Press
• The Conservative Nanny State