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{{Short description|American economist}}
{{Infobox economist
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|birth_place      = Columbus, Ohio
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|institution      = Center for Economic and Policy Research<br>[[Organization:Bucknell University|Bucknell University]]
|alma_mater       = [[Organization:Swarthmore College|Swarthmore College]] {{small|(BA)}}<br>[[Organization:University of Denver|University of Denver]] {{small|(MA)}}<br>[[Organization:University of Michigan|University of Michigan]] {{small|([[Social:Doctor of Philosophy|PhD]])}}
|doctoral_advisor = [[Biography:W. H. Locke Anderson|W. H. Locke Anderson]]<ref name=PhD-LogicNeoClassicalConsumptionTheory-1988>{{cite book |last=Baker |first=Dean |title=The Logic of Neo-Classical Consumption Theory |date=1988 |publisher=[[Organization:University of Michigan|University of Michigan]] |location=Ann Arbor, MI |oclc=68299542}}</ref>
|website          = {{URL|https://deanbaker.net|DeanBaker.net}}
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'''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.<ref name=SwarthmoreBulletin-BubbleBuster-2010>{{cite news|last1=Wachter|first1=Paul|title=Bubble Buster: Dean Baker '80 [sic] saw it coming. But if anything, his gloomy forecasts now look conservative|url=http://bulletin.swarthmore.edu/bulletin-issue-archive/archive_p=382.html|work=Swarthmore College Bulletin|date=January 2010}}</ref>

== Early life and education ==
Baker was born into a Jewish family<ref>{{Cite web |title= Dean Baker on Inflation: How Bad Is It, Really? |url= https://news.gallup.com/podcast/393587/dean-baker-inflation-bad-really.aspx |website= Gallup |date= 9 June 2022 |access-date= 5 January 2024 }} At 17:40.</ref> and grew up in the Lake View neighborhood of {{wipe|Chicago}}, Illinois.<ref name=WhatBestCollegeStudentsDo-2012>{{cite book|last1=Bain|first1=Ken|title=What the Best College Students Do|date=2012|publisher=The Belknap Press of Harvard University Press|location=Cambridge, MA|isbn=978-0-674-06664-9|oclc=821823403}}</ref>{{rp|205–209}} In 1981, Baker graduated from [[Organization:Swarthmore College|Swarthmore College]] with a bachelor's degree in history with minors in economics and philosophy. In 1983, he received a master's degree in economics from the [[Organization:University of Denver|University of Denver]]. In 1988, he received a PhD from the [[Organization:University of Michigan|University of Michigan]] in economics.<ref name="PhD-LogicNeoClassicalConsumptionTheory-1988" /><ref name="USHouseRep-CV-2014">{{cite web|title=Curriculum Vitae 2014: Dean Baker|url=http://docs.house.gov/meetings/IF/IF17/20150929/103999/HHRG-114-IF17-Bio-BakerD-20150929.pdf|website=United States House of Representatives|date=2014}}</ref>

== Career ==
Baker was a lecturer at the [[Organization:University of Michigan|University of Michigan]] from 1988 to 1989 and an assistant professor of economics at [[Organization:Bucknell University|Bucknell University]] from 1989 to 1992. From 1992 to 1998, he was an economist at the Economic Policy Institute. During this time, he published a paper with Mark Weisbrot in a journal of [[Finance:Evolutionary economics|evolutionary economics]].<ref name=LogicOfContestedExchange-1994>{{cite journal|last1=Baker|first1=Dean|last2=Weisbrot|first2=Mark|title=The Logic of Contested Exchange|journal=[[Finance:Journal of Economic Issues|Journal of Economic Issues]]|date=December 1994|volume=28|issue=4|pages=1091–1114|doi=10.1080/00213624.1994.11505613|jstor=4226888}}{{closed access}}</ref>

In 1999, Baker and Weisbrot co-founded the Center for Economic and Policy Research (CEPR), a US independent, nonpartisan think tank that produces economic research on US national affairs (social security, healthcare, the US national budget), and international topics (the global economy, the [[Organization:International Monetary Fund|International Monetary Fund]] or Latin America policy).<ref name=CEPR-ClosingGap-Video-2011>{{cite web|last1=K.S.|first1=Jomo|last2=Weisbrot|first2=Mark|last3=James|first3=Deborah|title=The Scorecard on Development, 1960-2010: Closing the Gap?|url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Bpe_jrKYbjA |archive-url=https://ghostarchive.org/varchive/youtube/20211214/Bpe_jrKYbjA |archive-date=2021-12-14 |url-status=live|website=Center for Economic and Policy Research|format=Video|date=15 April 2011}}{{cbignore}}</ref> In that same year Baker was a senior research fellow at the Preamble Center for Public Policy.<ref>{{cite web |title=Curriculum Vitae. Dean Baker |url=https://www.congress.gov/116/meeting/house/109356/witnesses/HHRG-116-RU00-Bio-BakerD-20190430.pdf |website=congress.gov |access-date=10 May 2023}}</ref>

Baker has consulted with officials from the [[Organization:World Bank|World Bank]] and provided testimony to the Joint Economic Committee of the U.S. Congress and to the [[Organization:OECD|OECD]]'s Trade Union Advisory Council.

From 1996 to 2006, Baker was the author of a weekly online commentary on the economic reporting of ''{{wipe|The New York Times}}'' and ''{{wipe|The Washington Post}}'',<ref>Dean Baker, CEPR, 9 June 2003, [http://www.cepr.net/misc/err_reflections.htm Reflections on Economic Reporting: Seven Years of the Economic Reporting Review] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120524165858/http://www.cepr.net/misc/err_reflections.htm |date=May 24, 2012 }}</ref> the ''Economic Reporting Review''. Since 2006, he has continued this commentary on his blog ''Beat The Press,'' formerly published at ''The American Prospect'' and now on CEPR's website.

=== 2007–08 United States housing bubble ===
In 2006 Baker predicted that "plunging housing investment will likely push the economy into recession."<ref name="auto">Bezemer, Dirk J, 16 June 2009. [https://mpra.ub.uni-muenchen.de/15892/1/No_one_saw_this_coming.pdf "“No One Saw This Coming”: Understanding Financial Crisis Through Accounting Models"]</ref> That year he published "Recession Looms for the U.S. Economy in 2007", in which he predicted that weakness in the US housing market was likely in 2007 to push the US economy into a recession.<ref name="auto"/>

Baker won the Revere Award, along with Steve Keen and Nouriel Roubini, for predicting the crash of the United States housing bubble and the resulting recession, which occurred from 2007 to 2008.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.progressive-economics.ca/2010/04/revere-award-for-economics/|title=Revere Award for Economics – The Progressive Economics Forum|website=www.progressive-economics.ca}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|url=https://rwer.wordpress.com/2010/05/13/keen-roubini-and-baker-win-revere-award-for-economics-2/|title=Keen, Roubini and Baker win Revere Award for Economics|date=May 13, 2010}}</ref> He warned about the coming crisis and the related government policies in multiple articles, op-eds and interviews from 2002 to 2005.<ref name="economicpredictions.org">{{Cite web |url=http://www.economicpredictions.org/dean-baker-predictions/index.htm |title='' Wall Street Economists: A Research Project on Economic Predictions'' |access-date=2013-07-21 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130901155755/http://economicpredictions.org/dean-baker-predictions/index.htm |archive-date=2013-09-01 |url-status=dead }}</ref> Basing his outlook on housing price data sets produced by the U.S. government, Baker asserted that there was a bubble in the US housing market in August 2002,<ref name= "baker bubble">{{cite web |url=http://www.cepr.net/index.php/publications/reports/the-run-up-in-home-prices-is-it-real-or-is-it-another-bubble |last=Baker |first=Dean |date=August 2002 |title=The Run-Up in Home Prices: Is it Real or Is it Another Bubble? |publisher=Center for Economic and Policy Research |access-date=2012-06-18 |archive-date=2009-06-03 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090603132142/http://www.cepr.net/index.php/publications/reports/the-run-up-in-home-prices-is-it-real-or-is-it-another-bubble/ |url-status=dead }}</ref> well before its peak,<ref>{{Cite book | last1 = Reinhart | first1 = Carmen M. |  last2 = Rogoff | first2 = Kenneth S. |  year = 2009 | title = This Time is Different: Eight Centuries of Financial Folly | location = Princeton, NJ | publisher = Princeton University Press | isbn = 978-0-691-14216-6 | page = [https://books.google.com/books?id=ak5fLB24ircC&pg=PA160 160] (see table 10.8)}}</ref> and predicted that the bubble's collapse would lead to recession. His prediction for when the recession would start was off by only one quarter.<ref name="The Monthly">{{cite journal |url=http://www.themonthly.com.au/monthly-essays-robert-manne-rudd-essay-global-financial-crisis-introduction-1629 |title=The Rudd Essay & the Global Financial Crisis |author =Robert Manne |date=May 2009 |journal=The Monthly |issue = 45 }}</ref><ref>{{cite web |url=http://mpra.ub.uni-muenchen.de/15892/1/MPRA_paper_15892.pdf |title='No One Saw This Coming': Understanding Financial Crisis Through Accounting Models |author=Dirk J. Bezemer |date=2009-06-16 |work=MPRA Paper No. 15892 |publisher=Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich |access-date=June 16, 2012 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150906094437/http://mpra.ub.uni-muenchen.de/15892/1/MPRA_paper_15892.pdf |archive-date=September 6, 2015 }}</ref><ref name="Prosper Australia">{{cite journal |url=http://www.prosper.org.au/2009/10/08/the-economy-in-palliative-care/ |title=The Economy in Palliative Care |author = David Smiley |date=October 8, 2009 |journal=Progress Magazine }}</ref><ref>{{citation |mode=cs1 |url= http://www.cepr.net/documents/publications/forecast_2006_11.pdf |last= Baker |first= Dean |year= 2006 |title= Recession Looms for the U.S. Economy in 2007 |publisher= CEPR |access-date= 14 June 2012}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |url= https://money.cnn.com/2008/12/01/news/economy/recession/index.htm |last= Isidore |first= Chris |date= 1 December 2008 |title= It's official: Recession since Dec. '07 |publisher= CNNMoney.com |access-date= 14 June 2012 }}</ref>

Regarding the housing bubble, Baker was critical of Federal Reserve chair Alan Greenspan.<ref>{{Cite news | last = Dean Baker | date = 28 October 2013 | title = Alan Greenspan owes America an apology | url = https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2013/oct/28/alan-greenspan-housing-market-crisis | access-date = 1 November 2013 | publisher = {{wipe|The Guardian}} }}</ref><ref>{{Cite news | last = Gwiazda | first = Nick | date = 31 October 2013 | title = Financial Crisis: The Guardian's Dean Baker Is Wrong – Alan Greenspan Owes Nobody An Apology | url = http://www.ibtimes.com/financial-crisis-guardians-dean-baker-wrong-alan-greenspan-owes-nobody-apology-1449842 | access-date = 1 November 2013 | publisher = ibtimes.com }}</ref><ref>{{Cite web | last = Baker | first = Dean | date = 31 October 2013 | title = Yes, Alan Greenspan Owes Us a Really Big Apology | url = http://www.cepr.net/index.php/blogs/beat-the-press/yes-alan-greenspan-owes-us-a-really-big-apology | access-date = 1 November 2013 | work = Beat the Press | archive-date = November 3, 2013 | archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20131103063644/http://www.cepr.net/index.php/blogs/beat-the-press/yes-alan-greenspan-owes-us-a-really-big-apology | url-status = dead }}</ref> He has also been critical of the regulatory framework of the real estate and financial industries, the use of financial instruments like [[Finance:Collateralized debt obligation|collateralized debt obligation]], and U.S. politicians and regulators' performance and conflicts of interest.<ref>Dean Baker, ''The Housing Bubble and the Financial Crisis'', [http://www.paecon.net/PAEReview/issue46/whole46.pdf ''Real-World Economic Review''], Issue no. 46, 20 March 2008</ref>

Baker opposed the [[Finance:Troubled Asset Relief Program|U.S. government bailout of Wall Street banks]] on the basis that the only people who stood to lose from their collapse were their shareholders and high-income CEOs. Of any hypothetical negative effects of not extending the bailout, he said, "We know how to keep the financial system operating even as banks go into bankruptcy and receivership,"<ref>[http://www.prospect.org/csnc/blogs/beat_the_press_archive?month=03&year=2008&base_name=face_slap_or_punch_to_the_head ''Beat The Press''] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110810205832/http://prospect.org/csnc/blogs/beat_the_press_archive?month=03&year=2008&base_name=face_slap_or_punch_to_the_head |date=2011-08-10 }}, March 9, 2008</ref> citing U.S. government action taken during the S&L crisis of the 1980s.<ref>[https://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=newsarchive&sid=aL39kRBP7IhU William Seidman, Who Led Cleanup of S&L Crisis, Dies], ''Bloomberg'', May 13, 2009</ref> He has ridiculed the U.S. elite for favoring it, asking, "How do you make a DC intellectual look less articulate than Sarah Palin being interviewed by Katie Couric? That's easy. You ask them how failure to pass the bailout will give us a [[Finance:Great Depression|Great Depression]]."<ref>[https://www.huffingtonpost.com/dean-baker/how-do-you-make-a-dc-inte_b_130735.html ''Huffington Post''], September 30, 2008</ref>

=== ''Rigged'' === 

Baker's 2016 book ''Rigged: How Globalization and the Rules of the Modern Economy Were Structured to Make the Rich Richer'' argues that changing how the U.S. economy has been managed over the past 50 years would add between $2 and 3.7 trillion (in constant 2016 dollars) to the U.S. GDP, between 11 and 20 percent. This is summarized in his Table 8-1:<ref>p. 215 (p. 222 of 263 in the PDF)</ref>

{| class="wikitable"
|-
! rowspan="2" | policy 
! colspan="2" | billions of 2016 USD
! colspan="2" | % of savings 
! colspan="2" | % of GDP 
|- 
! low !! high !! low !! high !! low !! high
|- 
| full-employment 
| align="right" | $1,115 
| align="right" | $2,300
| align="right" | 56% 
| align="right" | 62% 
| align="right" | 6.0% 
| align="right" | 12.3%
|- 
| financial sector waste 
| align="right" | $460
| align="right" | $636
| align="right" | 23% 
| align="right" | 17% 
| align="right" | 2.5% 
| align="right" | 3.4%
|- 
| patent/copyright monopolies 
| align="right" | $217 
| align="right" | $434 
| align="right" | 11% 
| align="right" | 12% 
| align="right" | 1.2% 
| align="right" | 2.3%
|- 
| corporate governance 
| align="right" | $90 
| align="right" | $145 
| align="right" | 5% 
| align="right" | 4% 
| align="right" | 0.5% 
| align="right" | 0.8%
|- 
| protecting highly paid professions 
| align="right" | $100 
| align="right" | $200 
| align="right" | 5% 
| align="right" | 5% 
| align="right" | 0.5% 
| align="right" | 1.1%
|- 
! Total 
! align="right" |$1,982 
! align="right" | $3,715 !! !! 
! align="right" | 10.6% 
! align="right" | 19.9%
|}

In ''Rigged'', Baker argues that, for example, focusing more on decreasing unemployment and less on minimizing inflation would primarily benefit the bottom 99%, though the top 1% would get some of those gains. Similarly, Baker says that changes in patent and copyright law over the past 50 years have violated their purpose under the [[Social:Copyright Clause|Copyright Clause]] of the Constitution: "To promote the progress of science and the useful arts". He concludes that if the U.S. had spent the same amount on research and media with the results being placed in the public domain, everyone would be better off, with the possible exception of the ultra-wealthy. In particular, the world would be healthier not having to pay patent royalties to U.S. pharmaceutical companies.<ref>ch. 5</ref>

He also writes that so-called free-trade agreements have exempted doctors and other highly paid professionals, not because of any intrinsic difference in what they do, but because they have more political power than organized labor.<ref>ch. 7</ref>

== Political activity ==
As a graduate student at the University of Michigan, Baker participated in and was arrested at two sit-ins protesting Representative Carl Pursell's votes for military aid to the Contras. In 1986, Baker defeated Donald Grimes in the Democratic primary and ran unsuccessfully against Pursell to represent Michigan's second Congressional district; his candidacy opposed aid to the Contras.<ref name=MichiganDaily-BakerPursellDebate-1986>{{cite news|last1=Earle|first1=Rob|title=Baker, Pursell spar in face-to-face debate|url=https://news.google.com/newspapers?id=uw5KAAAAIBAJ&pg=1561%2C2372513|work=The Michigan Daily|volume=XCVII|number=35|date=22 October 1986|pages=1, 5}}</ref><ref name=Nation-DeanBakerForCongress-1986>{{cite journal|last1=Cockburn|first1=Alexander|title=Beat the Devil: Dean Baker for Congress|url=https://www.thenation.com/article/october-11-1986-ronald-reagan-and-mikhail-gorbachev-meet-in-reykjavik-iceland-to-negotiate-disarmament/|journal=The Nation|volume=245|issue=13|date=25 October 1986|page=399|access-date=April 19, 2017|archive-date=April 19, 2017|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170419201217/https://www.thenation.com/article/october-11-1986-ronald-reagan-and-mikhail-gorbachev-meet-in-reykjavik-iceland-to-negotiate-disarmament/|url-status=dead}}</ref><ref name=MichiganDaily-Endorsement-1988>{{cite news|title=Opinion. August 2 primaries: Vote for progressive candidates|url=https://news.google.com/newspapers?nid=2706&dat=19880729&id=kglbAAAAIBAJ&pg=2404,978172|work=The Michigan Daily|volume=XCVIII|number=11S|date=29 July 1988|page=4}}</ref>

In 2020, Baker endorsed Elizabeth Warren's 2020 presidential campaign.<ref>{{Cite web|title=Elizabeth Warren picks up a slew of new progressive endorsements|url=https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/meet-the-press/blog/meet-press-blog-latest-news-analysis-data-driving-political-discussion-n988541|access-date=2021-10-08|website=NBC News|language=en}}</ref>

== Personal life ==
Baker is married to economist Helene Jorgensen. They live in southern Utah<ref name=LATimes-HousingBubble-2009>{{cite news|last1=Hong|first1=Peter Y.|title=Some saw the housing bubble and sold; trick now is spotting the bottom|url=https://articles.latimes.com/2009/aug/17/business/fi-bubble-timers17|work={{wipe|Los Angeles Times}}|date=17 August 2009}}</ref> and he is a visiting professor at the [[Organization:University of Utah|University of Utah]].<ref>{{Cite web |title=Rigged Economy - Department of Economics - The University of Utah |url=https://econ.utah.edu/events/Rigged1.php |website=econ.utah.edu}}</ref>

== Bibliography ==
===Selected articles===
* {{cite journal|last1=Baker|first1=Dean|last2=Weisbrot|first2=Mark|title=The Logic of Contested Exchange|journal=[[Finance:Journal of Economic Issues|Journal of Economic Issues]]|date=December 1994|volume=28|issue=4|pages=1091–1114|doi=10.1080/00213624.1994.11505613|jstor=4226888}}{{closed access}}
* {{cite news|last1=Baker|first1=Dean|last2=Hassett|first2=Kevin|title=The Human Disaster of Unemployment|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2012/05/13/opinion/sunday/the-human-disaster-of-unemployment.html|work={{wipe|The New York Times}}|date=12 May 2012}}

===Books===
* {{cite book|last1=Baker|first1=Dean|title=The Logic of Neo-Classical Consumption Theory|date=1988|publisher=[[Organization:University of Michigan|University of Michigan]]|location=Ann Arbor, MI|oclc=68299542}}
* {{cite book|last1=Baker|first1=Dean|last2=Weisbrot|first2=Mark|title=Social Security: The Phony Crisis|date=1999|publisher=Univ. of Chicago Press|location=Chicago, IL|isbn=978-0-226-03544-4|url=https://archive.org/details/socialsecurityph00bake|oclc=41090883}}
* {{cite book|last1=Bernstein|first1=Jared|last2=Baker|first2=Dean|title=The Benefits of Full Employment: When Markets Work for People|date=2003|publisher=Economic Policy Institute|location=Washington, DC|isbn=978-1-932-06604-3|oclc=52467815}}
* {{cite book|last1=Baker|first1=Dean|title=The Conservative Nanny State How the Wealthy Use the Government to Stay Rich and Get Richer|date=2006|publisher=Center for Economic and Policy Research|location=Washington, DC|isbn=978-1-411-69395-1|url=https://archive.org/details/conservativenann00dean|format=Free e-book|oclc=71423207}}
* {{cite book|last1=Baker|first1=Dean|title=The United States Since 1980|url=https://archive.org/details/unitedstatessinc00bake|url-access=registration|date=2007|publisher=Cambridge University Press|location=Cambridge, England|isbn=978-0-511-27471-8|oclc=252534980|doi=10.1017/CBO9780511510830}}{{closed access}}
* {{cite book|last1=Baker|first1=Dean|last2=Frank|first2=Thomas (foreword by)|title=Plunder and Blunder the Rise and Fall of the Bubble Economy.|date=2009|publisher=Berrett-Koehler Publishers|location=San Francisco, CA|isbn=978-1-609-94478-0|oclc=742517362}}
* {{cite book|last1=Baker|first1=Dean|title=False Profits Recovering from the Bubble Economy.|date=2011|publisher=Berrett-Koehler Publishers|location=San Francisco, CA|isbn=978-1-609-94475-9|oclc=740435886}}
* {{cite book|last1=Baker|first1=Dean|title=Taking Economics Seriously|date=2010|publisher=MIT Press|location=Cambridge, MA|isbn=978-0-262-01418-2|oclc=939219451}}
* {{cite book|last1=Baker|first1=Dean|title=The End of Loser Liberalism: Making Markets Progressive|date=2011|publisher=Center for Economic and Policy Research|location=Washington, DC|isbn=978-0-615-53363-6|url=https://archive.org/details/endofloserlibera0000bake|format=Free e-book|oclc=765978209|url-access=registration}}
* {{cite book|last1=Baker|first1=Dean|last2=Bernstein|first2=Jared|title=Getting Back to Full Employment: A Better Bargain for Working People|date=2013|publisher=Center for Economic and Policy Research|location=Washington, DC|isbn=978-0-615-91835-8|url=http://cepr.net/documents/Getting-Back-to-Full-Employment_20131118.pdf|format=Free e-book|oclc=866909924}}
* {{cite book|last1=Baker|first1=Dean|title=Rigged: How Globalization and the Rules of the Modern Economy Were Structured to Make the Rich Richer|date=2016|publisher=Center for Economic and Policy Research|location=Washington, DC|isbn=978-0-692-79336-7|url=http://deanbaker.net/images/stories/documents/Rigged.pdf|oclc=961184821}}

== References ==
{{Reflist|30em}}

== Further reading ==
* [http://www.vimeo.com/5578978 Dean Baker presentation on 2008–2009 economic trouble at Bucknell University]
* [https://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=99258949&ft=1&f=1006 NPR's ''Fresh Air'' (Audio): "The Key to Economic Stimulus?"], January 13, 2009
* [https://www.pbs.org/moyers/journal/08082008/watch3.html ''Bill Moyers Journal'' (Video)], August 8, 2008
* [https://www.pbs.org/newshour/bb/business/jan-june09/joblosses_01-26.html ''News Hour with Jim Lehrer'' (Video): "Massive Job Cuts Renew Calls for Quick Action on Stimulus"] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140122040519/http://www.pbs.org/newshour/bb/business/jan-june09/joblosses_01-26.html |date=January 22, 2014 }}, January 26, 2009
* [https://web.archive.org/web/20110816145548/http://www.c-spanarchives.org/library/index.php?main_page=product_video_info&products_id=283705-1&showVid=true C-SPAN's ''Book TV'' (Video): "Plunder and Blunder: The Rise and Fall of the Bubble Economy"], January 27, 2009
* [https://web.archive.org/web/20101206112451/http://marketplace.publicradio.org/display/web/2009/03/09/pm_transparency/ ''Marketplace'' Public Radio (Audio): We Demand to See More Transparency], March 9, 2009
* {{cite journal|last1=Scott|first1=Jonathan|title=Dean Baker's war of position|journal=Race & Class|date=25 July 2009|volume=51|issue=1|pages=55–68|doi=10.1177/0306396809106163|s2cid=154607912}}{{closed access}}
* [http://www.democracynow.org/2010/3/29/economist_dean_baker_banks_could_be Dean Baker: Banks Could Be Big Winners of President Obama’s Foreclosure Prevention Program] – video by ''Democracy Now!''
* {{cite web |last=Roberts |first=Russ |title=Dean Baker on the Crisis |url=http://www.econtalk.org/archives/_featuring/dean_baker/ |work=EconTalk |publisher=Library of Economics and Liberty |date=January 9, 2012}}
* [http://bloggingheads.tv/search/?participant1=Baker,&nbsp;Dean Video (and audio) of debates & discussions involving Baker] on [[Company:Bloggingheads.tv|Bloggingheads.tv]]
* [http://bostonreview.net/BR34.1/baker.php Dean Baker argues that the debate over the economy should not be over whether to regulate, but how] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090712065527/http://bostonreview.net/BR34.1/baker.php |date=2009-07-12 }} in the ''Boston Review''

== External links ==
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* [https://www.cepr.net/index.php/biographies/dean-baker/ Dean Baker] at Center for Economic and Policy Research
* [https://www.cepr.net/index.php/beat-the-press/ "Beat The Press"]
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