Interview on the Greek crisis with economist Mark Weisbrot, co-director of the Center for Economic and Policy Research, Washington, D.C.

Interview on the Greek crisis with economist Mark Weisbrot, co-director of the Center for Economic and Policy Research, in Washington, D.C.

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Mr. Weisbrot is the lead author of a recent research paper examining the Greek economy and the Greek government's economic policy options and has also written op-eds both before and after the January 25 elections in Greece including the article on Syriza’s win as the beginning of the end for the eurozone’s long nightmare.
He received his Ph.D. in economics from the University of Michigan. He is co-author, with Dean Baker, of Social Security: The Phony Crisis (University of Chicago Press, 2000), and has written numerous research papers on economic policy. He writes a column on economic and policy issues that is distributed to over 550 newspapers by the Tribune Content Agency. His opinion pieces have appeared in The Guardian, New York Times, the Washington Post, the Los Angeles Times and most major U.S. newspapers, as well as for Brazil’s largest newspaper, Folha de Sao Paulo. He appears regularly on national and local television and radio programs. He is also president of the non-partisan organization Just Foreign Policy.