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James K. Galbraith

Chair in Government & Business Relations, University of Texas

James K. Galbraith holds the Lloyd M. Bentsen, Jr. Chair of Government/Business Relations at the Lyndon B. Johnson School of Public Affairs, the University of Texas at Austin, and a professorship in Government. He is a frequent speaker on matters related to the ﬁnancial and economic crisis and a witness before Congress on several recent occasions. Galbraith’s recent scholarly research has focused on the measurement and understanding of inequality in the world economy, under the rubric of the University of Texas Inequality Project.

Galbraith’s policy writing ranges from monetary policy to the economics of warfare, with forays into politics and history, especially the history of the Vietnam War. He is a Senior Scholar with the Levy Economics Institute and Chair of the Board of Economists for Peace and Security, an international association of professional economists.

He held a Fulbright Distinguished Visiting Lectureship in China in the summer of 2001, and was named a Carnegie Scholar in 2003. In 2010 he was elected to the Accademia Nazionale dei Lincei in Rome, the world’s oldest scholarly society. He is President-elect of the Association for Evolutionary Economics.

Issues: Anti-Poverty programs, Anti-Trust Regulations, Austerity, Bank Bail Out, Bank Bonuses, Banking and Finance, Capitalism, Economic Forecasting, Economic Mobility, Economic Theory, Economy and Gender, Economy and Race, Fannie/Freddie, Financial Markets, Healthcare, Housing Market Collapse, Keynes v. Friedman, Medicare/Medicaid, Middle Class, Ratings Agencies, Securitization, Service Economy, Social Investment, Social Security, Too Big To Fail, US Infrastructure, Welfare, Workforce Development

Experience:

• Professor of Government, University of Texas, Current
• Visiting Scholar, The Brookings Institution, 1985
• Deputy Director, Joint Economic Committee, US Congress, 1983-1984
• Executive Director, Joint Economic Committee, US Congress, 1981-1982
• Economist, Committee on Banking, Finance and Urban Affairs, U.S. House of Representatives, 1975-1976, 1977-1980
• Visiting Lecturer, Department of Economics, University of Maryland, 1979-1980

Education:

Ph.D., Yale University, 1981
M.Phil., Yale University, 1978
M.A., Yale University, 1977
A.B., Harvard University, 1974

Books:

Inequality and Instability: A Study of the World Economy Just Before the Great Crisis (Oxford University Press, March 2013)

Predator State: How Conservatives Abandoned the Free Market and Why Liberals Should Too (The Free Press, August 2008)

Unbearable Cost: Bush, Greenspan and the Economics of Empire (Palgrave-MacMillan,2006)

Inequality and Industrial Change: A Global View (Cambridge University Press, 2001)

Created Unequal: The Crisis in American Pay (1998)

Macroeconomics (Houghton-Mifflin, 1994)

The Economic Problem (with Robert Heilbroner, Prentice Hall, 1990)

Balancing Acts: Technology, Finance and the American Future (Basic Books, 1989)