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Robert Kuttner (/ˈkʌtnər/; born April 17, 1943) is an American journalist and writer whose works present a liberal / progressive point of view. Kuttner is the co-founder and current co-editor of The American Prospect, which was created in 1990 as an "authoritative magazine of liberal ideas," according to its mission statement. He was a 20-year columnist for Business Week, and continues to write columns in The Boston Globe and for the Huffington Post.

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

Change, Jobs, Lost, Replace, Technological Change

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 against free trade?

707, Air, Dollars, Free, Military, Transport

In a world where technology and capital are highly transferable, there is a real risk that comparative advantage comes to be defined as whose labor force will work for the lowest wage.

Capital, Force, Labor Force, Lowest, Real, Technology

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 norm and allow mercantilist states to overwhelm U. S. industry and ratchet down wages, in the name of free trade.

Free, Industry, Names, Ratchets, Reality, Seek

Not surprisingly, extensive effort in Britain and America goes into finding tax shelter. the system is "efficient" for the shelter industry, not for the economy.

Britain And America, Efficient, Effort, Extensive, Shelter, Tax

In practice, a good deal of the outcomes produced by the market reflect nothing more than luck - good or bad.

Bad, Luck, Outcomes, Practice, Reflect

The Unheavenly Chorus is the definitive study of participatory inequality in America. Marshaling prodigious evidence, the authors show how money not only buys influence directly but also affects associations that are supposed to be democratic antidotes to concentrated wealth. A monumental achievement of careful scholarship, this book offers real knowledge of how politics actually operates.

America, Book, Careful, Marshaling, Monumental, Real

What do you call an economist with a prediction? Wrong.

Call, Economist, Prediction, Predictions, Wrong

Henry Ford, in a sense, was the first Keynesian. He paid his assembly workers high wages so they could afford to buy his cars.

Assembly, Car, Cars, Firsts, High, Wages

The economic illusion is the belief that social justice is bad for economic growth.

Belief, Economic, Growth, Justice

When laissez-faire creates instability, the move to a freer market can be something less than pure gain.

Freer, Gain, Gains, Instability, Laissez Faire, Moving

If social security depresses savings rates, it is only because it is unfunded.

Depresses, Depressing, Saving, Social, Unfunded

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 nursing home begins billing Medicaid. This is precisely the antithesis of social citizenship; instead of the poor being accorded the dignity associated with the middle class, equality of treatment is achieved by making the middle class undergo pauperization.

Care, Class, Home, Middle, Nursing, Patient

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.

Accumulation, Ironic, Should Have, Slogan, Views, Wall

As a scholarly discipline, economics has always suffered from physics envy.

Discipline, Envy, Physics, Scholarly, Suffered

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 fought for since the 1880s?

1880S, Democracies Have, Free, New York, Rights, York

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.

Country, Germany, Government, State, Statism, West Germany