Dean Baker

Dean Baker
Born (1958-07-13) July 13, 1958 (age 66)
Academic career
FieldEconomics
macroeconomics
Real estate economics
Urban economics[1]
InstitutionCenter for Economic and Policy Research
Bucknell University
Alma materSwarthmore College (BA)
University of Denver (MA)
University of Michigan (PhD)
Doctoral
advisor
W. H. Locke Anderson[2]
Information at IDEAS / RePEc
WebsiteDeanBaker.net

Dean Baker (born July 13, 1958) is an American macroeconomist who co-founded the Center for Economic and Policy Research (CEPR) with Mark Weisbrot. Baker has been credited as one of the first economists to have identified the 2007–08 United States housing bubble.[3]

  1. ^ "IDEAS/RePEc: Dean Baker". Research Papers in Economics (RePEc).
  2. ^ Baker, Dean (1988). The Logic of Neo-Classical Consumption Theory. Ann Arbor, MI: University of Michigan. OCLC 68299542.
  3. ^ Wachter, Paul (January 2010). "Bubble Buster: Dean Baker '80 [sic] saw it coming. But if anything, his gloomy forecasts now look conservative". Swarthmore College Bulletin.