Mark Weisbrot

Mark Alan Weisbrot
Born	Chicago, Illinois, United States
Institution	Center for Economic and Policy Research
Alma mater	University of Michigan

Mark Weisbrot is an American economist, columnist and co-director, with Dean Baker, of the Center for Economic and Policy Research (CEPR) in Washington, D.C. As a pundit, he contributes to publications such as The Huffington Post, the UK's The Guardian.

As an economist, Weisbrot has opposed privatization of the United States Social Security system and has been critical of neoliberal globalization and the International Monetary Fund (IMF). He has supported efforts by South American governments to create a Bank of the South, in order to make them more independent of the IMF. Weisbrot's work on Latin American countries (including Argentina, Bolivia, Brazil, Ecuador and Venezuela) has attracted national and international attention, and in 2008 was cited by Brazilian Foreign Secretary Celso Amorim. His work on Greece’s ongoing debt crisis has influenced the debate over what measures the Greek government should take in negotiating a solution with the European Central Bank, European Commission, and the IMF, including with Greece’s former Finance Minister Yanis Varoufakis and current Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras.

Weisbrot received his Ph.D. in economics from the University of Michigan. His 1993 thesis, Ideology And Method In the History of Development Economics says the mainstream neoclassical economics model sets boundaries for development economics and is presented in a context where "development economics can be seen as an attempt to break out of the boundaries delineated by the neoclassical project in order to understand the problems of underdeveloped countries".

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