American critics of welfare statism are often surprised to learn that countries like West Germany, with a much more comprehensive welfare state and a statistically larger public sector, have fewer government employees per capita than the United States does. — Robert Kuttner Copy Share Image
For over a century, popular struggles in the democracies have used the nation-state to temper raw capitalism. The power of voters has offset the power of capital. But as national barriers have come down in the name of freer commerce,… — Robert Kuttner Copy Share Image
It is more than a little ironic that "capital accumulation" once a rather tendentious Marxian view of a supposed capitalist obsession, should have become… — Robert Kuttner Copy Share Image
Technological advance often thrives in sheltered and subsidized markets, which defy free trade. — Robert Kuttner Copy Share Image
As a scholarly discipline, economics has always suffered from physics envy. — Robert Kuttner Copy Share Image
Though editorialists at The New York Times and The Washington Post still don't get it, most Democrats in Congress finally do: Today's trade disputes… — Robert Kuttner Copy Share Image
Britain, with the most completely socialized health system in the West, now spends the lowest fraction of GNP on health care of any major… — Robert Kuttner Copy Share Image
We are already well down the road toward a managed-trade regime. It would be far better to acknowledge that reality, and seek a set… — Robert Kuttner Copy Share Image
George Stigler Nobel laureate and a leader of Chicago School was asked why there were no Nobel Prizes awarded in the other social sciences,… — Robert Kuttner Copy Share Image
If Boeing got a big head start on the 707 from multibillion-dollar military contracts to develop an air force transport, is that a sin… — Robert Kuttner Copy Share Image
Both rich and poor nations have a common stake in policies that put the globe on a sustainable development path. The conflict is less… — Robert Kuttner Copy Share Image
Henry Ford, in a sense, was the first Keynesian. He paid his assembly workers high wages so they could afford to buy his cars. — Robert Kuttner Copy Share Image
The Unheavenly Chorus is the definitive study of participatory inequality in America. Marshaling prodigious evidence, the authors show how money not only buys influence… — Robert Kuttner Copy Share Image
