Based Only on the Information Given in This Biography,discuss the Credibility

question 68

Short Answer

Based only on the information given in this biography,discuss the credibility and authority of the person described on each of the topics in the list that follows:
Robert Kuttner is the economics correspondent of The New Republic,a columnist for Business Week and the Boston Globe,and a contributor to the Atlantic.After graduating from Oberlin College in 1965,he studied at the London School of Economics and took a master's degree in political science at the University of California,Berkeley.In addition to his writing,Kuttner served in Washington from 1975 to 1978 as the chief investigator for the Senate Banking Committee.In 1979 he was a fellow at Harvard's John F.Kennedy School of Government.He subsequently edited the journal Working Papers.Kuttner is the author of Revolt of the Haves (1980)and,most recently,The Economic Illusion (1984),which was nominated for a National Book Critics Circle Award.
a.the effects of inflation on the stock market
b.the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation (FDIC),which insures deposits at banks and savings and loan institutions
c.restaurants in London
d.politics and upper-income groups in America
e.poverty among Native Americans
We would expect substantial expertise from Mr.Kuttner on topics (b)and (d)-the latter because of his 1980 book-and more than lay knowledge about (a).We'd sooner trust him than someone who hasn't lived there on (c),and we would expect no more expertise about (e)than we'd expect from other well-informed non-specialists.

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