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

- Robert Kuttner

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

- Robert Kuttner

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 f…

- Robert Kuttner

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

- Robert Kuttner

American critics of welfare statism are often surprised to learn that countries like West Germany, with a much more comprehensive welfare state and a…

- Robert Kuttner

George Stigler Nobel laureate and a leader of Chicago School was asked why there were no Nobel Prizes awarded in the other social sciences, sociology…

- Robert Kuttner

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

- Robert Kuttner

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

- Robert Kuttner

For over a century, popular struggles in the democracies have used the nation-state to temper raw capitalism. The power of voters has offset the powe…

- Robert Kuttner