"Obama's Challenge: Prospects for Economic Success" will address the economic challenges facing the nation, and the political challenges of rising to the occasion. Says Kuttner, "There are strategies available so that a severe recession doesn't deteriorate into a depression, but the politics are in some ways more difficult than the economics."
For the last 40 years, Kuttner's intellectual and political project has been to revive the politics and economics of harnessing capitalism to serve a broad public interest. He has pursued this ideal as a writer, editor, teacher, lecturer, commentator, and public official.
To this end, Kuttner is co-founder and co-editor of the magazine The American Prospect, as well as a distinguished senior fellow of the think-tank Demos. He was a longtime columnist for Business Week, and continues to contribute columns in the Boston Globe. He is a well-known author, having previously published The Squandering of America-an exploration of the political roots of America's narrowing prosperity and the systemic risks facing the US economy-which received the Sidney Hillman Journalism Award, and Everything for Sale: The Virtues and Limits of Markets, a book which received a page one review in the New York Times Book Review.
Kuttner's magazine writing has appeared in the New York Times Magazine and Book Review, The Atlantic, The New Republic, The New Yorker, and the Harvard Business Review, and he has contributed major articles to The New England Journal of Medicine as a national policy correspondent. For more about Kutner, visit his website.
This event, sponsored by the Harvard Extension School and the Lowell Institute of Boston, is free and open to the public. Seating is available on a first-come, first-served basis. The lecture will be videotaped and available on the Extension School website at a later time.
