Robert Kuttner Quotes

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

  Robert Kuttner

  Justice, Growth, Belief

  Robert Kuttner (1987). “The Economic Illusion: False Choices Between Prosperity and Social Justice”, p.1, University of Pennsylvania Press

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• Si Boeing consiguió una gran ventaja con el 707 gracias a contratos militares multimillonarios para desarrollar un transporte para las fuerzas aéreas, ¿es eso un pecado contra el libre comercio?

  Robert Kuttner

  Military, Air, Dollars

  Robert Kuttner (1987). “The Economic Illusion: False Choices Between Prosperity and Social Justice”, p.96, University of Pennsylvania Press

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• 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

  Car, Wages, Firsts

  Robert Kuttner (1987). “The Economic Illusion: False Choices Between Prosperity and Social Justice”, p.169, University of Pennsylvania Press

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

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  Depressing, Saving, Social

  Robert Kuttner (1987). “The Economic Illusion: False Choices Between Prosperity and Social Justice”, p.77, University of Pennsylvania Press

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• A George Stigler, premio Nobel y líder de la Escuela de Chicago, le preguntaron por qué no se concedían premios Nobel en otras ciencias sociales, como la sociología, la psicología, la historia, etcétera. "No se preocupe", respondió Stigler, "ya tienen un Premio Nobel en ...Literatura".

  Robert Kuttner

  School, Science, Worry

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• 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 power of capital. But as national barriers have come down in the name of freer commerce, so has the capacity of governments to manage capitalism in a broad public interest. So the real issue is not "trade" but democratic governance.

  Robert Kuttner

  Real, Struggle, Democracies Have

  "Globalization and Its Critics". The American Prospect, Volume 12, July 2-16, 2001.

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

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  Thrive, Trade, Free Trade

  Robert Kuttner (1987). “The Economic Illusion: False Choices Between Prosperity and Social Justice”, p.97, University of Pennsylvania Press

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• Tanto las naciones ricas como las pobres tienen un interés común en políticas que sitúen al planeta en la senda del desarrollo sostenible. El conflicto es menos entre países pobres y ricos que entre los amplios intereses de las personas y los estrechos intereses de las industrias extractivas. Tenemos que encontrar el camino hacia algún tipo de régimen mundial que reduzca las emisiones de gases de efecto invernadero, pero las naciones ricas deben transferir la tecnología que lo haga posible, en lugar de considerar este cambio como una oportunidad más para que la industria privada obtenga beneficios.

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  Country, Technology, Opportunity

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• 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 force will work for the lowest wage.

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  Real, Technology, Labor Force

  Robert Kuttner (1987). “The Economic Illusion: False Choices Between Prosperity and Social Justice”, p.102, University of Pennsylvania Press

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• Ya hemos avanzado mucho hacia un régimen de comercio gestionado. Sería mucho mejor reconocer esa realidad y buscar un conjunto de normas razonables que pretender que el comercio ricardiano es la norma y permitir que los Estados mercantilistas abrumen a la industria estadounidense y reduzcan los salarios en nombre del libre comercio.

  Robert Kuttner

  Reality, Names, Would Be

  Robert Kuttner (1987). “The Economic Illusion: False Choices Between Prosperity and Social Justice”, p.124, University of Pennsylvania Press

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

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  Britain And America, Effort, Shelter

  Robert Kuttner (1987). “The Economic Illusion: False Choices Between Prosperity and Social Justice”, p.188, University of Pennsylvania Press

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• Britain, with the most completely socialized health system in the West, now spends the lowest fraction of GNP on health care of any major nation. There are frequent complaints of excessive waits for elective surgery and other inconveniences, but British citizens live slightly longer than Americans, on average, and our overall health conditions are comparable.

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  Average, Waiting, Citizens

  Robert Kuttner (1984). “The economic illusion: false choices between prosperity and social justice”, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt (HMH)

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• It is more than a little ironic that "capital accumulation" once a rather tendentious Marxian view of a supposed capitalist obsession, should have become - of all things - Wall Street's own slogan.

  Robert Kuttner

  Wall, Views, Should Have

  Robert Kuttner (1987). “The Economic Illusion: False Choices Between Prosperity and Social Justice”, p.51, University of Pennsylvania Press

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

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  Practice, Luck, Outcomes

  Robert Kuttner (1987). “The Economic Illusion: False Choices Between Prosperity and Social Justice”, p.16, University of Pennsylvania Press

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• 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.

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  Country, Government, West Germany

  Robert Kuttner (1987). “The Economic Illusion: False Choices Between Prosperity and Social Justice”, p.23, University of Pennsylvania Press

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• Aunque los editorialistas de The New York Times y The Washington Post siguen sin entenderlo, la mayoría de los demócratas del Congreso por fin lo entienden: Las disputas comerciales actuales ya no tratan principalmente de aranceles, cuotas o libre entrada de mercancías. Se trata de las reglas básicas del capitalismo. ¿Sólo debe haber derechos de propiedad? ¿Qué pasa con los demás derechos por los que han luchado las democracias liberales desde la década de 1880?

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  New York, Democracies Have, Rights

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• What do you call an economist with a prediction? Wrong.

  Robert Kuttner

  Predictions, Economist

  "What Do You Call An Economist With A Prediction? Wrong" by Robert Kuttner, www.bloomberg.com. September 5, 1999.

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• Donald Rumsfeld should not just be impeached. He should be tried as a war criminal. As for Bush, he can be dispatched by the electorate while we are still a democracy.

  Robert Kuttner

  War, Democracy, Criminals

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• The Unheavenly Chorus is the definitive study of participatory inequality in America. Marshaling prodigious evidence, the authors show how money not only buys influence directly but also affects associations that are supposed to be democratic antidotes to concentrated wealth. A monumental achievement of careful scholarship, this book offers real knowledge of how politics actually operates.

  Robert Kuttner

  Real, Book, America

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

  Robert Kuttner

  Jobs, Technological Change, Lost

  The Guardian Weekly, August 08, 1993.

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• When laissez-faire creates instability, the move to a freer market can be something less than pure gain.

  Robert Kuttner

  Moving, Gains, Laissez Faire

  Robert Kuttner (1987). “The Economic Illusion: False Choices Between Prosperity and Social Justice”, p.85, University of Pennsylvania Press

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• Despite its scientific
  pretensions, economics still remains more of an art than a science

  Robert Kuttner

  Art, Economics, Stills

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• 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.

  Robert Kuttner

  Cake, Two, Doe

  Robert Kuttner (1987). “The Economic Illusion: False Choices Between Prosperity and Social Justice”, p.14, University of Pennsylvania Press

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• By default, we have created a "system" of nursing-home care for the aged in which middle-class people pay exorbitant rates to for-profit nursing-home entrepreneurs - and then when private resources are consumed and the patient qualifies as a pauper, the nursing home begins billing Medicaid. This is precisely the antithesis of social citizenship; instead of the poor being accorded the dignity associated with the middle class, equality of treatment is achieved by making the middle class undergo pauperization.

  Robert Kuttner

  Home, Nursing, Class

  "The Economic Illusion". Book by Robert Kuttner, 1984.

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• As a scholarly discipline, economics has always suffered from physics envy.

  Robert Kuttner

  Envy, Discipline, Physics

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