Dean Baker (b. July 13, 1958) is an American macroeconomist and co-founder and co-director of the Center for Economic and Policy Research. He previously was a senior economist at the Economic Policy Institute and an assistant professor of economics at Bucknell University. He has a Ph.D. in economics from the University of Michigan. His B.A. is from Swarthmore College. He blogs for The American Prospect.

We will talk, among other things, about his book Plunder and Blunder