STEVEN PEARLSTEIN is a Pulitzer prize-winning columnist for The Washington Post and the Robinson Professor of Public Affairs at George Mason University. He was awarded the Pulitzer for Commentary in 2008 for columns anticipating and explaining the financial crisis and global economic downturn. In 2006 he won the Gerald R. Loeb Award for business and financial commentary, and in 2011 the Loeb Award for lifetime achievement. He lives in Washington with his wife, Wendy Gray.
There is now a broad recognition that American capitalism is flawed -- see Steven Pearlstein's superb book Can American Capitalism Survive? -- and our next step is to figure out how to move beyond blind rapacity. --Nicholas Kristof, The New York Times