Dean Baker, progressive economist, in Durham March 18

Please join Dean Baker, Co-Director of the Center for Economic and Policy Research (CEPR) and one of the nation’s leading progressive economists, for a discussion on his new book False Profits: Recovering from the Bubble Economy. False Profits recounts the causes of the economic meltdown, dissects the government’s inadequate responses to it, and offers a thoughtful progressive program for rebuilding the economy and reforming the financial system.

WHEN/WHERE:
Thursday, March 18th at 7 p.m.
The Regulator Bookshop
720 Ninth St  Durham, NC 27705

Dean Baker is author of several books, including Plunder and Blunder: The Rise and Fall of the Bubble Economy, The United States Since 1980, The Conservative Nanny State, and Social Security: The Phony Crisis (with Mark Weisbrot). A columnist for the Guardian, The American Prospect, and Truthout.org, Baker writes regularly for the Washington Post, The Atlantic, and the Financial Times, and appears frequently on National Public Radio, CNN, CNBC, and PBS’s NewsHour.

And he’s speaking at the Policy Watch Crucial Conversation luncheon earlier in the day! Register here.