Robert Kuttner

Notable work and positions

The American Prospect - Co-founder and Co-editor
Brandeis University, Heller School - Professor
Economic Policy Institute - Co-founder

Biography

Robert Kuttner is co-founder and co-editor of The American Prospect, the progressive policy magazine he launched in 1990 with Robert B. Reich and Paul Starr, and a professor at Brandeis University's Heller School for Social Policy and Management. He was a columnist for BusinessWeek's "Economic Viewpoint" section for two decades and for The Boston Globe, and earlier served as national staff writer for The Washington Post, chief investigator of the U.S. Senate Banking Committee, economics editor of The New Republic, and Washington editor of The Village Voice; his first job was as an assistant to journalist I.F. Stone. In 1986 he co-founded the labor-backed think tank the Economic Policy Institute, where he continues to serve on the executive committee. Kuttner is the author of thirteen books on economics, politics and democracy, including the New York Times bestseller Obama's Challenge (2008), Everything for Sale (1997) and, most recently, Notes for Next Time: Surviving Tyranny, Redeeming America. His magazine writing has also appeared in The New Yorker, The New York Review of Books, The Atlantic and Foreign Affairs, among other publications.