Robert Kuttner

Robert Kuttner is founding co-editor of The American Prospect magazine and a distinguished senior fellow at Demos, a policy research institute in New York. He was a longtime columnist for Business Week, and continues to write columns for the Boston Globe. He was also a founder of the Economic Policy Institute, and serves on its board. His previous positions include national staff writer and syndicated columnist for the Washington Post, economics editor of The New Republic, and chief investigator of the U.S. Senate Banking Committee.

He has taught at Brandeis University, Boston University, the University of Massachusetts, and Harvard’s Institute of Politics. He was educated at Oberlin College, the University of California at Berkeley and the London School of Economics, and holds an honorary doctorate from Swarthmore College.

Robert Kuttner’s seventh book, The Squandering of America, (2007) explores America's widening income inequality and systemic risks facing the financial system. It was recently honored with the Sidney Hillman Award. His best known previous book is Everything for Sale: the Virtues and Limits of Markets (1997).

He is researching a new book on the relationship between the dynamism of the global market system and the project of building democratic national societies of shared opportunity and prosperity. His other magazine writing has appeared in The Atlantic, The New Republic, The New Yorker, Foreign Affairs, Dissent, Columbia Journalism Review, Political Science Quarterly, New England Journal of Medicine, and Harvard Business Review.