James K Galbraith

James K. Galbraith | University of Texas FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 22 James K. Galbraith holds the Lloyd M. Bentsen Jr. Chair in Government/Business Relations and a professorship of government at the Lyndon B. Johnson School of Public Affairs at the University of Texas at Austin. He holds degrees from both Harvard University and Yale University and studied as a Marshall scholar at King's College, Cambridge from 1974- 1975. Afterwards, he served on the staff of the U.S. Congress in several positions. From 1995 to 1997, Galbraith directed the LBJ School's Ph.D. program in public policy. He currently directs the University of Texas Inequality Project, an informal research group based at the LBJ School. Galbraith's most recent book is Inequality and Instability: A Study of the World Economy Just Before the Great Crisis (2012). Additional books authored by Galbraith include The Predator State: How Conservatives Abandoned the Free Market and Why Liberals Should Too (2008), Created Unequal: The Crisis in American Pay (1998) and Balancing Acts: Technology, Finance and the American Future (1989). Inequality and Industrial Change: A Global View (2001) is co-edited with Maureen Berner. He has coauthored two textbooks, The Economic Problem (1989) with Robert L. Heilbroner and Macroeconomics (1993) with William Darity Jr. He is a managing editor of Structural Change and Economic Dynamics.

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