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Robert Kuttner

  • co-Founder & Co-Editor, The American Prospect
  • Professor, Brandeis University

Robert Kuttner is co-founder and co-editor of The American Prospect, and professor at Brandeis University’s Heller School. His latest book is Debtors’ Prison: The Politics of Austerity Versus Possibility. He writes columns for The Huffington Post, The Boston Globe and the New York Times international edition.

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How Unregulated Finance is Killing Democracy

Video Featuring Robert Kuttner and Rob Johnson | Apr 11, 2018

The twin threats of right-wing populism and unencumbered financial capitalism pose a crisis for democracy across the world, argues Robert Kuttner in his new book, Can Democracy Survive Global Capitalism?