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James K. Galbraith

James K. Galbraith holds the Lloyd M. Bentsen Jr. Chair in Government/Business Relations at the Lyndon B. Johnson School of Public Affairs and a professorship in Government at The University of Texas at Austin.

Galbraith holds degrees from Harvard University (BA) and in economics from Yale University (MA, M.Phil, PhD). He was Executive Director of the Joint Economic Committee of the United States Congress in the early 1980s. He chaired the board of Economists for Peace and Security from 1996 to 2016 () and directs the University of Texas Inequality Project (). He is a managing editor of .

In 2010, he was elected to the . In 2014 he was co-winner with Angus Deaton of the In 2020 he received the of the Association for Evolutionary Economics.

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What the Government Needs to Do Next

Article | Mar 23, 2020

Tax rebates, tax cuts and business bailouts will not solve this crisis. Here’s what’s needed.

Who’s Afraid of John Maynard Keynes?

Article | Aug 30, 2019

An except from Galbraith’s review of Paul Davidson’s Who’s Afraid of John Maynard Keynes? Challenging Economic Governance in an Age of Growing Inequality

Capitalism’s Great Reckoning

Article | Jun 24, 2019

As the maladies of modern capitalism have multiplied, fundamental questions about the future of the world’s dominant economic model have become impossible to ignore. But in the absence of viable alternatives, the question is how to reform a system that is increasingly at odds with democracy.

Piketty's World Inequality Review: A Critical Analysis

Article | Jan 2, 2019

Thomas Piketty and his colleagues have insisted that tax records are better for measuring inequality than income surveys. They’re wrong.

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Global Inequality @Columbia

Event Discussion | Feb 21, 2013

The relatively new field of inequality studies is gaining increasing momentum as economic disparity grows throughout the world, in advanced countries as well as less developed ones—especially in the United States.

The Economic Crisis and the Crisis in Economics

New Economic Thinking 2010

Event Plenary | Apr 8–11, 2010

The 51ºÚÁϱ¬ÁÏÍøÀúʷʼþ convened many of the world’s most distinguished economists, academics and thought leaders at its inaugural Conference at King’s College, University of Cambridge.