Dean Baker: Profiled People in Economics and Banking

ByShaun Snapp

Executive Summary

  • Dean Baker is a highly visible critic of mainstream economics.

Introduction

Dean Baker is one of the most important non-mainstream economists and a co-founder of CERP. He has been a long time skeptic of the political focus on high public debt and one of his areas of specialty is debunking the mainstream media’s highly biased coverage of financial topics. His “Beat the Press newsletter goes out to many readers.