When laissez-faire creates instability, the move to a freer market can be something less than pure gain. — 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 - of all things - Wall Street's own slogan. — Robert Kuttner Copy Share
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 are no longer mostly about tariffs, quotas, or free entry of goods. They are about the ground rules for capitalism. Are there to be only property rights? What about the other rights that liberal democracies have… — Robert Kuttner Copy Share
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
