On Liberals and Liberalism Robert Kuttner

 In an economy with steady growth, low unemployment and core inflation down to 3.2%, why do so many Americans say that the Biden Administration has left them worse off economically? How is Trump winning or tied with voters under 30? 

And why are the Democrats, once the party of the common man,  continuing to lose the support the working class, not just among white voters but increasingly among non-white voters? 

 To discuss those questions and more, I’m joined today by Robert Kuttner. Robert a journalist, writer and scholar -  is a co-founder and co-editor of The American Prospect, a professor at Brandeis University’s Heller School, an author of many great books, most recently “Going Big: FDR’s Legacy, Biden’s New Deal, and the Struggle to Save Democracy” as well as 2018’s Can Democracy Survive Global Capitalism, one of my favorite books for understanding the post-war economic order and the rise of the neoliberal era.

 On the show Bob hit on a wide range of issues – including Biden’s prospects for next year, whether Carter was our first neoliberal president, the state of the British and German economies, the elitism of the Democratic Party, Israel and free speech on campus, and much more – it’s a heck of a show, folks. 

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Website: https://robertkuttner.com/

American Prospect: https://prospect.org/

Twitter: @rkuttnerwrites

Full Bio:
For most of his career, Bob has been an economics journalist. He is co-founder and co-editor of The American Prospect magazine, He was a longtime columnist for BusinessWeek, and continues to write columns for The New York Times international edition. He was a founder of the Economic Policy Institute and serves on its board.

Bob is author of thirteen books, including the 2008 New York Times bestseller, Obama’s Challenge: American’s Economic Crisis and the Power of a Transformative Presidency; and most recently, The Stakes 2020 His best-known earlier book is Everything for Sale: the Virtues and Limits of Markets (1997). His other books on economics and politics include: The Squandering of America (2007), The End of Laissez-Faire (1991); The Life of the Party (1987); The Economic Illusion (1984); Revolt of the Haves (1980), and Debtors’ Prison (2013).

As a scholar and teacher, he has taught at Boston University, the University of Oregon, the University of Massachusetts, and the Institute of Politics at Harvard, as well as his present chair at The Heller School at Brandeis.

He is the two-time winner of the Sidney Hillman Journalism Award, the John Hancock Award for Business and Financial Writing, the Jack London Award for Labor Writing, and the Paul Hoffman Award of the United Nations Development Program for his lifetime work on economic efficiency and social justice. He has been a Guggenheim Fellow, Woodrow Wilson Fellow, German Marshall Fund Fellow, and John F. Kennedy Fellow.

Bob’s journalism and scholarly research has been at the intersection of economics and politics. His current research is on the impact of globalization on political democracy at the level of the nation state; and on possible alternatives to the current structure of the economy that would be more conducive to greater equality of income, wealth, and opportunity as well as to stronger democracy.

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