Robert Kuttner

Robert Kuttner is one of America’s most important political and economic analysts and commentators. He offers jargon-free analysis and commentary on politics and the economy that is relevant to the layperson, businessperson, policymaker, and economist alike. His work treats the intersection of economics, politics, policy and ideology, and the boundaries between state, market and society.

 He is co-founder and co-editor of The American Prospect magazine and is an award-winning author of six books.

His latest book, Everything for Sale: The Virtues and Limits of Markets, discusses how the emergence of a hyper-competitive global economy affects government, politics and American prosperity.

He is currently working on a book on deregulation and the stock market.

Robert is a co-founder of the Economic Policy Institute and serves on its board. He has served on two federal committees and is a regular guest on ‘Firing Line,’ ‘Nightline,’ ‘The News Hour’ and other television programs. He is widely published in the mainstream press.

Robert Kuttner is a lively and entertaining speaker with a talent for assessing how current economic issues affect specific industries and audiences.

co-founded with Princeton author and sociologist Paul Starr and former Labor Secretary Robert Reich, The American Prospect is a liberal quarterly about politics, policy, and ideas dedicated to the renewal of America’s democratic traditions. As co-editor, Robert writes regularly for the magazine on a variety of issues, often focusing on domestic and international economic policy.

This book explores how actual markets work in practice, distills some tentative principles from these real-world patterns, and applies these principles to policy questions. It makes a powerful case for the mixed economy, in which government steps in to override markets for a variety of reasons: to stabilize monetary forces, to promote growth, to temper inequalities, to cultivate civic virtues. This is the system that produced a quarter-century of unprecedented expansion and prosperity in the wake of depression and war and a system that holds the greatest hope for a flourishing twenty-first century.