Robert Kuttner is cofounder and coeditor of The American Prospect and the Economic Policy Institute and former columnist for both Business Week and the Boston Globe. The author of Can Democracy Survive Global Capitalism? and Going Big, he holds the Ida and Meyer Kirstein Chair at Brandeis University and lives in Boston.
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Before and after World War II, a serendipitous confluence of events created a healthy balance between the market and the polity—between the engine of capitalism and the egalitarian ideals of democracy. Under Roosevelt's New Deal, unions and collecti... SEE MORE