Robert Kuttner

Robert Kuttner, author of the most prescient political book of the year, Obama's Challenge: America's Economic Crisis and the Power of a Transformative Presidency, is cofounder and coeditor of The American Prospect magazine, as well as a Distinguished Senior Fellow of the think tank Demos. He was a longtime columnist for BusinessWeek, and continues to write columns in the Boston Globe.

His previous and widely praised books include The Squandering of America: How the Failure of Our Politics Undermines Our Prosperity; Everything for Sale: The Virtues and Limits of Markets (about which Robert Heilbroner wrote, "I have never seen the market system better described, more intelligently appreciated, or more trenchantly criticized than in Everything for Sale"); The End of Laissez-Faire: National Purpose and the Global Economy After the Cold War; and The Economic Illusion: False Choices Between Prosperity and Social Justice.

Kuttner"s magazine writing has appeared in The New York Times Magazine and Book Review, The Atlantic, The New Republic, The New Yorker, Dissent, Columbia Journalism Review, and Harvard Business Review. He has contributed major articles to The New England Journal of Medicine as a national policy correspondent.

Formerly an assistant to the legendary I.F. Stone, chief investigator for the Senate Banking Committee, Washington Post staff writer, economics editor for The New Republic, and university lecturer, Kuttner's decades-long intellectual and political project has been to revive the politics and economics of harnessing capitalism to serve a broad public interest.

Robert's Upcoming Events

• Robert Kuttner at "Thinking Big, Thinking Ahead" conference
  February 11, 2009, 9:00 am

  Robert Kuttner will speak as part of a conference entitled "Thinking Big, Thinking Ahead" in Washington, DC on February 11th, sponsored by DEMOS and the Campaign for America's Future, among other organizations. Check back soon for details.

• Robert Kuttner at Great Fenway Park Writers Series for the Red Sox
  
  Absolut Clubhouse at Fenway Park, Boston MA
  February 18, 2009, 12:00 pm

  Robert Kuttner will speak as part of the Great Fenway Park Writers Series on February 18th, 2009 at noon. Visit the weblink above to register and learn more about the series, or contact Dan Lyons at lyonsd@redsox.com.