Robert Kuttner is theNew York Timesbestselling author of,Obama's Challenge: America's Economic Crisis and the Power of a Transformative Presidency, is cofounder and coeditor ofThe American Prospectmagazine, as well as a Distinguished Senior Fellow of the think tank Demos. He was a longtime columnist forBusinessWeek, and continues to write columns in theBoston Globe.His previous and widely praised books includeThe Squandering of America: How the Failure of Our Politics Undermines Our Prosperity; Everything for Sale: The Virtues and Limits of Markets(about which Robert Heilbroner wrote, "I have never seen the market system better described, more intelligently appreciated, or more trenchantly… criticized than inEverything for Sale");The End of Laissez-Faire: National Purpose and the Global Economy After the Cold War; andThe Economic Illusion: False Choices Between Prosperity and Social Justice. Kuttner"s magazine writing has appeared inThe New York Times MagazineandBook Review, The Atlantic, The New Republic, The New Yorker, Dissent, Columbia Journalism Review, andHarvard Business Review. He has contributed major articles toThe New England Journal of Medicineas a national policy correspondent. Formerly an assistant to the legendary I.F. Stone, chief investigator for the Senate Banking Committee,Washington Poststaff writer, economics editor forThe New Republic, and university lecturer, Kuttner's decades-long intellectual and political project has been to revive the politics and economics of harnessing capitalism to serve a broad public interest.