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James K. Galbraith

James K. Galbraith holds the Lloyd M. Bentsen, Jr., Chair in Government / Business Relations at the LBJ School of Public Affairs at the University of Texas at Austin. He holds degrees from Harvard and Yale. He studied economics as a Marshall Scholar at King's College, Cambridge, and then served on the staff of the U.S. Congress, including as executive director of the Joint Economic Committee. He directs the University of Texas Inequality Project, an informal research group at the LBJ School, is a Senior Scholar of the Levy Economics Institute, and is chair of Economists for Peace and Security, a global professional association.

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The Predator State will be released on May 12, 2009 in Trade Paperback
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WorldNetDaily, May 14, 2013
...about identifying existing trends in stocks, precious metals and commodities. Also, on the show, Robinson is joined by James K. Galbraith, a professor at the Lyndon B. Johnson School of Public Affairs, who presents the latest economic research from...
Zero Hedge, March 20, 2013
...to prevent the next one.” For that reason I wanted to talk with US economist and book author James K Galbraith ( The Predator State ) in January 2010 about the underlying causes of the global financial crisis and in particular about the...
Boston IMC, October 31, 2012
...be no better in preventing the next bubble than they were in preventing the last one." 5. James K. Galbraith, Lloyd M. Bentsen Jr. Chair in Government/Business at the Lyndon B. Johnson School of Public Affairs, University of Texas: "This election is...
Austin American Statesman, October 29, 2012
...During the session ‘Inequality and Instability: The World Economy just before the Great Crisis’. UT economics expert James K. Galbraith fielded an audience question: ‘In what way might the government SPEND to ease the current economic crisis.” ...
Texas Observer, October 24, 2012
...Saturday, October 27, 2012. Time: 1:45 - 2:30. Location: Capitol Extension Room E2.030. Venerable economist James K. Galbraith of UT- Austin will discuss his book Inequality and Instability: The World Economy Just Before the Great Crisis. Galbraith has...
WBUR On Point, July 12, 2012
...Richard Florida, author of the global best-seller The Rise of the Creative Class and Who’s Your City? James K. Galbraith, teaches economics and a variety of other subjects at the LBJ School and University of Texas- Austin’s Department of...
Texas Observer, July 4, 2012
...action and public policy—were responsible for their position in society. The only problem with this now-entrenched view, economist James K. Galbraith writes in Inequality and Instability: A Study of the World Just Before the Great Crisis, is that...
San Francisco Bay Area Independent Media Center, May 10, 2013
...politics, science and the media is so hardened and narrow-minded that the pressing demand of economists Paul Davidson, James K. Galbraith, Richard Koo, Jayati Ghosh and Heiner Flassbeck that could save us from the dangers of a new worldwide economic...
NYC Independent Media Center, May 10, 2013
...politics, science and the media is so hardened and narrow-minded that the pressing demand of economists Paul Davidson, James K. Galbraith, Richard Koo, Jayati Ghosh and Heiner Flassbeck that could save us from the dangers of a new worldwide economic...
Tehran Times, April 5, 2013
...these jobs were supplied by temporary help services, leaving these employees with a precarious hold on their jobs. James K. Galbraith examined the “squeeze on wages from the 1950s–1990s,” discovering that the wage and salary share of personal...
Global Research, April 5, 2013
...October, 1962.” The Cold War International Project Bulletin, Issue 5, Spring 1995 (http://www.gwu.edu/~nsarchiv/nsa/cuba_mis_cri/moment.htm). [2] James K. Galbraith and Heather A. Purcell, “Did the U.S. Military Plan  a Nuclear First Strike for...
Global Research, April 3, 2013
...by temporary help services, leaving these employees with a precarious hold on their jobs.7 Labor’s Share James K. Galbraith examined the “squeeze on wages from the 1950s–1990s,” discovering that the wage and salary share of personal income...
ZNet, March 31, 2013
...Home » ZNet » ZVideo » Leo Panitch » Galbraith and Panitch: What Would Real Economic Reform Look Like?...
DMN Newswire, March 26, 2013
...economics and public affairs, Princeton University; Bruce C. N. Greenwald, Professor of Finance and Asset Management, Columbia University; James K. Galbraith, Levy Institute and University of Texas at Austin; Robert J. Barbera, chief economist, Mount...