By default, we have created a "system" of nursing-home care for the aged in which middle-class people pay exorbitant rates to for-profit nursing-home entrepreneurs - and then when private resources are consumed and the patient qualifies as a pauper, the… — 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
Technological advance often thrives in sheltered and subsidized markets, which defy free trade. — Robert Kuttner Copy Share
As a scholarly discipline, economics has always suffered from physics envy. — Robert Kuttner Copy Share
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
When laissez-faire creates instability, the move to a freer market can be something less than pure gain. — Robert Kuttner Copy Share
But of course you can have your cake and eat it, too - if you decide to to bake a second cake. And you… — Robert Kuttner Copy Share
Despite its scientific pretensions, economics still remains more of an art than a science — Robert Kuttner Copy Share
