Robert Kuttner Quotes

In America, we build public housing by creating lucrative inducements to private developers, and then wax indignant at the public waste.

Keynes, like Freud and Marx, deserves to be read in the original, not through the glosses of his lesser disciples.

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.

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

But of course you can have your cake and eat it, too - if you decide to to bake a second cake. And you may well find that baking two cakes does not take twice the work of baking one.

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

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

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