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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 ''New York Times'', the UK's ''The Guardian'', and Brazil's largest newspaper, ''Folha de S. Paulo''. As an economist, Weisbrot has opposed privatization of the United States Social Security system and has been critical of 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.〔''MercoPress'', 4 April 2008, (Diversified markets have cut Brazil's exposure to US crisis )〕 In early 2010 Weisbrot's work on Latvia's economic crisis attracted national and international attention. Weisbrot has several times contributed testimony to Congressional hearings, in 2002 to a House of Representatives committee, on Argentina's 1999–2002 economic crisis〔5 March 2002, (Argentina’s Economic Meltdown: Causes and Remedies )〕 and in 2004 to the US Senate Foreign Relations Committee, on the state of democracy in Venezuela, and on media representation of Hugo Chávez and of Chávez's Venezuela.〔 〕 ==Economist== Weisbrot received his Ph.D. in economics from the University of Michigan.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Mark Weisbrot )〕 His 1993 thesis, ''Ideology And Method In the History of Development Economics''〔Page 2450: 〕 explains how the mainstream neoclassical economics model set boundaries for development economics and is presented in the perspective 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".〔 The doctoral committee overlooking the thesis included political-economists W. H. Locke Anderson as the chair, Daniel R. Fusfeld and Thomas E. Weisskopf and historian Terrence J. McDonald.〔〔 In 1999, he co-founded, together with economist Dean Baker, the Center for Economic and Policy Research (CEPR), "to promote democratic debate on the most important economic and social issues that affect people's lives". Weisbrot is co-author, with Baker, of ''Social Security: The Phony Crisis'' (University of Chicago Press, 1999). In the book, Weisbrot and Baker argue that much of the United States Social Security debate has been based on misconceptions, that privatization would be unlikely to improve the system, and that the system in fact performs satisfactorily and does not need fixing. Commenting on international matters, Weisbrot argues that globalization, as understood by the United States government and American lending institutions, has failed to live up to its promise of making poorer countries grow rich, stating that "no nation has ever pulled itself out of poverty under the conditions that Washington currently imposes on underdeveloped countries." He has criticized the role played by the IMF and has taken an active role in developing the Bank of the South, a joint project by Argentina, Brazil, Paraguay, Uruguay, Ecuador, Bolivia and Venezuela spearheaded by Venezuelan president Hugo Chávez and designed to make South America financially less dependent on the IMF and World Bank. Weisbrot has been described as the intellectual architect behind the bank, and has provided some advice to countries seeking to take part in it. Weisbrot's work on Latin American countries (including Argentina, Bolivia, Brazil, Ecuador and Venezuela) has attracted national and international attention,〔''USA Today'', 7 November 2007, (Argentina's snub of conventional wisdom pays off )〕〔''Página/12'', 22 April 2007, ("Gracias a la Argentina, el FMI cada vez es más irrelevante" )〕〔''Time'', 7 December 2009, (Morales' Big Win: Voters Ratify His Remaking of Bolivia )〕〔''The Independent'', 28 November 2006, (Correa hails victory for the left in Ecuador )〕〔''EFE'', 10 December 2008, (Expertos creen Ecuador no puede pagar deuda y además mantener política social )〕〔 and in 2008 was cited by Brazilian Foreign Secretary Celso Amorim.〔 In early 2010 Weisbrot's work on Latvia's economic crisis attracted national〔Paul Krugman, 10 February 2010, (Riga Mortis )〕〔''Reuters'', 10 February 2010, (How the poor can get poorer, and be OK about that )〕〔''Wall Street Journal'', 3 February 2010, (Euro Rules Take Bite Out of Peripheral Countries )〕 and international attention.〔Dienas Bizness, 4 February 2010, (Latvijas glābšanas sociālā un ekonomiskā maksa bijusi milzīga )〕〔Baltic Business News, 20 January 2010, (US economist: Latvia should devalue )〕〔''Hamburger Abendblatt'', 13 February 2010, (Athen zittert vor der lettischen Lösung )〕 Weisbrot is also the President of Just Foreign Policy, a non-governmental organization dedicated to reforming United States foreign policy.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Board )〕 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Mark Weisbrot」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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