Robert Kuttner

"Can we reverse these deeply rooted sources sources of inequality? Or are they just endemic to a capitalist economy?"

"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 g…"

"Technological advance often thrives in sheltered and subsidized markets, which defy free trade."

"Why, then, should we have to lower our living standards? What is the mysterious source of the economic loss? If productivity is increasing, why should we sacrifice services and wages?"

"I have tried to suggest that injustice is not necessary economics;that the economics can work, and has often worked, when the constituency for it is animated. The politics of equality - that is a litt…"

"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 of reasonable rules, than to pretend that Ricardian trade is the nor…"

"Political conservatives have focused on tax reduction as an economic growth strategy for three reasons. First it is self-serving; it saves rich people lots of money. Second, it comports with their ide…"

"Technological change is beneficial only when other jobs replace the ones lost."