Robert Kuttner

Robert Kuttner is a Cofounder and Coeditor of The American Prospect and a Professor at Brandeis’s Heller School. His most recent book, Going Big: FDR’s Legacy, Biden’s New Deal, and the Struggle to Save Democracy, was published in April. (July 2022)

Follow:

Was the Third Way the Right Way?

September 22, 2022 issue

Free Markets, Besieged Citizens

Why did Democratic presidents embrace an economic credo that annihilated their own public philosophy and its appeal to the electorate?

The Rise and Fall of the Neoliberal Order: America and the World in the Free Market Era

by Gary Gerstle

July 21, 2022 issue

Letter

Robert Shapiro

Was the Third Way the Right Way?

September 22, 2022 issue

Bringing the Supply Chain Back Home

Is Biden ready to insist that national economic planning is not just ideologically permissible but urgently necessary?

Building Resilient Supply Chains, Revitalizing American Manufacturing, and Fostering Broad-Based Growth: 100-Day Reviews Under Executive Order 14017

a report by the White House

November 18, 2021 issue

Dividends of a Just Economy

What is keeping the government from acting on behalf of its citizens?

Anti-System Politics: The Crisis of Market Liberalism in Rich Democracies

by Jonathan Hopkin

The People, No: A Brief History of Anti-Populism

by Thomas Frank

The Sum of Us: What Racism Costs Everyone and How We Can Prosper Together

by Heather McGhee

Merge Left: Fusing Race and Class, Winning Elections, and Saving America

by Ian Haney López

April 29, 2021 issue

A migrant domestic worker from the Philippines, Hong Kong, 2015

Can We Fix Capitalism?

Capitalism, Alone: The Future of the System That Rules the World

by Branko Milanovic

September 24, 2020 issue

Julie Blackmon: Olive & Market Street, 2012

Blaming Liberalism

Why Liberalism Failed

by Patrick J. Deneen, with a foreword by James Davison Hunter and John M. Owen IV

November 21, 2019 issue

Letter

John K. Collins

Not So Glorious

January 16, 2020 issue

William Powhida: Griftopia, 2011; a ten-foot-wide ‘visual translation’ of the 2008 financial crisis based on Matt Taibbi’s 2010 book of the same title

The Crash That Failed

Adam Tooze’s ‘Crashed: How a Decade of Financial Crises Changed the World’

Crashed: How a Decade of Financial Crises Changed the World

by Adam Tooze

November 22, 2018 issue

Leo Popper, Karl Polanyi, and Michael Polanyi, circa 1908

The Man from Red Vienna

What are we to make of Karl Polanyi? And what lessons might he offer for the present moment?

Karl Polanyi: A Life on the Left

by Gareth Dale

December 21, 2017 issue

President Obama at the Costco store in Lanham, Maryland, where he gave a talk on raising the minimum wage, January 2014

Why Work Is More and More Debased

The Fissured Workplace: Why Work Became So Bad For So Many and What Can Be Done to Improve It

by David Weil

Private Equity at Work: When Wall Street Manages Main Street

by Eileen Appelbaum and Rosemary Batt

October 23, 2014 issue

The Debt We Shouldn’t Pay

The classical historian Moses Finley said that in the ancient world all revolutionary movements had a single program: “Cancel the debts and redistribute the land.”

Debt: The First 5,000 Years

by David Graeber

May 9, 2013 issue