Robert Kuttner: Economics

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“Political conservatives have focused on tax reduction as an economic growth strategy for three reasons. First it is self-serving; it saves rich people lots of money. Second, it comports with their ideological allegiance to laissez-faire economics. And third, tax incentives are less intrusive to business-as-usual than any other form of government planning.”

Robert Kuttner

Source: The Economic Illusion (1984), Chapter 5, Taxes, p. 227

Money , People , Business

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

Robert Kuttner

Introduction, p. 1 (First text line.)
The Economic Illusion (1984)

Justice

“Why, then, should we have to lower our living standards? What is the mysterious source of the economic loss? If productivity is increasing, why should we sacrifice services and wages?”

Robert Kuttner

Epilogue: Politics, p. 272
The Economic Illusion (1984)

Loss

“I have tried to suggest that injustice is not necessary economics; that the economics can work, and has often worked, when the constituency for it is animated. The politics of equality - that is a little harder.”

Robert Kuttner

Epilogue: Politics, p. 278 (Last text lines...)
The Economic Illusion (1984)

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