Mark Weisbrot

Mark Weisbrot (born 1954 in Chicago ) is an American economist and journalist. With Dean Baker, he runs the Center for Economic and Policy Research ( CEPR ), a progressive think tank in Washington, DC As a commentator, he contributes among other things to the New York Times, The Guardian and Folha de S. Paulo.

Weisbrot has a doctorate from the University of Michigan ( Ph.D.). Has Weisbrot Baker with the book Social Security: The Phony Crisis ( University of Chicago Press, 1999 ) written and thereby opposed the privatization of the U.S. social security.

He is regarded as a key architect of the Bank of the South, who founded at the initiative of Venezuela, Argentina, Brazil, Paraguay, Uruguay, Ecuador, Bolivia and Venezuela. For designing the bank, he was contacted by the Venezuelan government on several occasions as a consultant. Weis bread works on Latin America have been observed in the U.S. and beyond. As an expert, he was invited by the U.S. Congress Committee, among others, for an assessment of the Argentine crisis.

For the documentary South of the Border by Oliver Stone Weisbrot wrote the screenplay with Tariq Ali. His study on the economic crisis in Latvia became famous.

Weisbrot is also president of Just Foreign Policy Initiative, which advocates for changes in the foreign policy of the United States.