Jeff Faux
Founding President and Distinguished Fellow
Areas of expertise
Political economy • International economics • Macroeconomics • Labor markets • Unions
Biography
Jeff Faux founded the Economic Policy Institute in 1986, and made it into the country’s leading think tank on the political and economic issues that face working Americans. In 2003, he stepped down as EPI’s president, and is now the Institute’s Distinguished Fellow. Faux has studied, taught and published on a wide variety of economic and political issues from the global economy to neighborhood community development, from monetary policy to political strategy. He is the author or co-author of six books, the latest being, The Servant Economy: Where America’s Elite is Sending the Middle Class (Wiley, 2012).
Faux worked as an economist in the Departments of State, Labor and Commerce, a manager in the finance industry, a blueberry farmer, and a member of a municipal planning board in the State of Maine. He’s been an advisor to governments, trade unions, businesses, political campaigns, and community organizations. He’s lectured in Europe, Latin America, and Asia, sits on the boards of several of non-profit institutions and magazines, has written articles for numerous newspapers, magazines and journals, has testified before Congress, and has appeared many times on television and radio.
Education
Queens College, George Washington University, and Harvard University
Honorary Degree, University of New England
Publications by Jeff Faux
Blog
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May 10, 2012 | Grasping at Chinese straws
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Feb. 8, 2012 | A cheaper dollar is not enough
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Sept. 9, 2011 | It’s not ideology, it’s the money
Report
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Jan. 16, 2007 | Globalization that works for working Americans
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Sept. 28, 2006 | Revisiting NAFTA: Still not working for North America’s workers
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Sept. 7, 2005 | Eight steps to deficit reduction for growth and fairness
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Sept. 7, 2005 | Deficit reduction for growth and fairness
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Sept. 7, 2005 | Investing the peace dividend: How to break the Gramm-Rudman-Hollings stalemate
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Sept. 7, 2005 | Reducing the deficits: Send the bill to those who went to the party
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Nov. 1, 2001 | Fast track to trade deficits: Mushrooming foreign debt begs for strategic pause before approving
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May 1, 2000 | 50 Lost Opportunities: Commerce Department state-level review of supposed gains from China trade bet
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April 1, 2000 | PNTR with China: Economic and political costs greatly outweigh benefits
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March 1, 2000 | The Fed’s Unnecessary Assault on Wages
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Sept. 1, 1999 | Social Investment and the Budget Debate
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April 1, 1999 | Fixing Social Security—The Clinton plan and its alternatives (EPI Briefing Paper)
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Dec. 1, 1998 | Making Social Security Work
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Nov. 1, 1997 | Fast Track and the Global Economy (EPI Issue Brief #123)
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Sept. 1, 1997 | ‘Mercosur’ trade: Hardly a case for fast track
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May 1, 1997 | The good-for-nothing budget: Clinton-GOP deal a boon to the wealthy, but not the economy
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June 1, 1995 | Back to Investment
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Jan. 1, 1995 | The Bottom Line on the Balanced Budget Amendment
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Oct. 1, 1993 | The Failed Case for NAFTA
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June 1, 1992 | The Effect of George Bush’s NAFTA on American Workers
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June 1, 1991 | Fast Track, Fast Shuffle: The Economic Consequences of the Bush Administration’s Proposed Trade Agreement with Mexico
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June 1, 1991 | Investment-Led Stimulus
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June 1, 1991 | U.S. Jobs and the Mexico Trade Proposal
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Jan. 1, 1991 | Increasing Public Investment
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June 1, 1988 | Getting Rid of the Trade Deficit
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Jan. 1, 1987 | Competitveness and Balanced Budgets
Economic snapshot
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Jan. 9, 2002 | Shortchanging Argentina’s workers
Testimony
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Sept. 22, 2010 | Industrial policy and national security
Book
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May 16, 2006 | The Party’s Not Over: A New Vision for the Democrats
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Jan. 19, 2006 | The Global Class War: How America’s Bipartisan Elite Lost Our Future, and What It Will Take to Win
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Oct. 13, 2005 | Employee Rights in a Changing Economy: The Issue of Replacement Workers
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Oct. 13, 2005 | Reclaiming Prosperity: A Blueprint for Progressive Economic Reform
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June 1, 1986 | Declining American Incomes and Living Standards
Commentary
April 11, 2013 | Where’s the Change?
Nov. 15, 2012 | Election over: Time for progressive Dems to face the truth
Oct. 1, 2012 | Education profiteering: Wall Street’s next big thing?
Sept. 5, 2012 | Paul Ryan’s wink
June 1, 2012 | A tough choice for Mexico: The country’s presidential elections are a referendum on the drug war
May 30, 2012 | Who will save the middle class?
July 7, 2010 | Myths about the federal budget deficit
May 3, 2010 | Trade policy and the American worker
Oct. 13, 2009 | Is the financial crisis leading to a new global order?
April 24, 2008 | What to Really Do about Immigration
April 23, 2008 | Citi’s Mexican cronies
April 23, 2008 | Is this the Big One?
Feb. 29, 2008 | Overhauling NAFTA
May 13, 2007 | Budget Surplus Politics: The Money is Ours
April 20, 2007 | It is time to pause on free trade
March 2, 2007 | Dodging the Question
March 2, 2007 | Moving on to globalization’s central political question
Nov. 13, 2006 | Reagan era is over: Are Democrats ready?
May 15, 2006 | South of the border: The impact of Mexico’s economic woes
April 6, 2006 | Dealing with Mexico
March 31, 2006 | Behind the Dubai-Gate Debate
March 30, 2006 | Defining a progressive economic strategy for America’s future
Feb. 1, 2006 | The Democrats’ opportunity: Are they ready?
Jan. 27, 2006 | Partying in Davos
Nov. 21, 2005 | Flat Note from the Pied Piper of Globalization
Nov. 30, 2004 | All Action, No Talk
Feb. 9, 2004 | NAFTA at 10
Feb. 3, 2004 | EPI mourns loss of labor, union organizer
Aug. 14, 2003 | Vicious Circle of Trade | EPI Viewpoints
July 15, 2003 | How NAFTA Failed Mexico | EPI Viewpoints
March 31, 2003 | Manufacturing: Key to American Future | EPI Viewpoints
March 28, 2003 | Reclaiming the Party: Four Suggestions to Jump-start the Democrats
March 28, 2003 | Corporate Control of North America | EPI Viewpoint
March 27, 2003 | Global economic classes
Oct. 28, 2002 | Paul Wellstone—In Solidarity
April 24, 2002 | Rethinking the Global Political Economy
March 4, 2002 | The China trade debate
March 4, 2002 | Toward a Global Social Contract
March 4, 2002 | America Needs a Future, Not a Tax Cut
March 4, 2002 | How Should Left Respond to Globalization | EPI Viewpoints
March 4, 2002 | The Politically Talented Mr. Greenspan
March 4, 2002 | Backwards Budget Debate – And How to Move It Forward
March 4, 2002 | A Global Strategy for Labor
March 4, 2002 | The Federal Reserve: Reality vs. Myth
March 4, 2002 | Interest Rate Hike Will Hurt Low- and Middle-income Workers
March 4, 2002 | Greenspan Is Bad for Our Economic Health
March 4, 2002 | The Next Recession
July 21, 2000 | Another view: Seattle and other stories that the media missed