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James 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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PR Newswire via Yahoo!, November 20, 2009
...- Rates from $30 / Month Tech Ticker Recent Posts “A Govt. Not Run by the Financial Sector': James Galbraith's Rx for Wall Street Reform - Aaron Task 'A Truly Extraordinary Slump': Reports of Robust Recovery Premature, James Galbraith Says - Aaron...
Forbes.com, November 17, 2009
...Katty Kay and Claire Shipman on how to revamp work schedules. Talking compensation, TARP and party politics with James Galbraith. James Galbraith on what links animal instinct and the economy. Why Americans need to understand the global economy and what...
Forbes.com, November 17, 2009
...Katty Kay and Claire Shipman on how to revamp work schedules. Talking compensation, TARP and party politics with James Galbraith. James Galbraith on what links animal instinct and the economy. Why Americans need to understand the global economy and what...
Forbes.com, November 12, 2009
...Katty Kay and Claire Shipman on how to revamp work schedules. Talking compensation, TARP and party politics with James Galbraith. James Galbraith on what links animal instinct and the economy. Why Americans need to understand the global economy and what...
Bohemian, October 19, 2009
...and bolstering local economies. With speakers including Indian activist and physicist Vandana Shiva, author Sam Keen, economics professor James Galbraith and North Bay writer Norman Solomon, the conference seeks to lay the foundation for a new economic...
Executive Intelligence Review, April 1, 2009
...echoed the policies outlined by LaRouche. Prominent and accomplished economists, most notably Texas economics professor and noted author James Galbraith (the son of FDR's economic advisor John Kenneth Galbraith) and Nobel Laureate Paul Krugman, insisted...
Lyndon LaRouche Public Action Committee, March 28, 2009
...outlined by LaRouche. A group of prominent and accomplished economists, most notably Texas economics professor and noted author James Galbraith (who is also the son of FDR?s economic adviser John Kenneth Galbraith) and Nobel Laureate Paul Krugman,...
Guardian Unlimited, March 24, 2009
...the real assets behind the securities ? since then has ratified these initial jitters pretty convincingly. Further, as James Galbraith notes, this is not a question on which we have to take a theological position ? we can look at some actual data on...
Guardian Unlimited, March 23, 2009
...the real assets behind the securities ? since then has ratified these initial jitters pretty convincingly. Further, as James Galbraith notes, this is not a question on which we have to take a theological position ? we can look at some actual data on...
USA Today, December 22, 2008
...Economic ideas, trends "The Predator State: How Conservatives Abandoned the Free Market and Why Liberals Should Too by James Galbraith (Free Press, $25): An attempt to purge the liberal mind of the false economic idols of monetary control, balanced...
USA Today, December 21, 2008
...Economic ideas, trends "The Predator State: How Conservatives Abandoned the Free Market and Why Liberals Should Too by James Galbraith (Free Press, $25): An attempt to purge the liberal mind of the false economic idols of monetary control, balanced...
AlterNet.org, December 9, 2008
...ideologue is 'the most qualified person' to deal with our economic situation, rather than, say, a pragmatist like James Galbraith or Joseph Stiglitz who has been right all along. Same thing for progressives concerned about the Iraq War. They have...
Macworld, October 16, 2009
...0 Comments 0 Recommendations MCE 8X Blu-ray Disc External Recordable Drive Drive delivers speedy performance via USB by James Galbraith , Macworld.com ...
Phil’s Stock World, October 15, 2009
...Second, the finance sector is worse than parasitic. In the title of his recent book, The Predator State , James Galbraith aptly names the problem. The financial sector functions as the sharp canines that the predator state uses to rend the nation. In...
Macworld, October 6, 2009
...Service Macworld » Storage 0 Comments 0 Recommendations WD announces new...
Washington's Blog, September 10, 2009
...of the late '80s -- these shocks [the subprime and credit crises] will have serious consequences ... And economist James Galbraith is saying now (just as his father economist John Kenneth Galbraith said 50 years ago) - that "happy talk" won't solve the...
naked capitalism, September 10, 2009
...the late ’80s — these shocks [the subprime and credit crises] will have serious consequences … And economist James Galbraith is saying now (just as his father economist John Kenneth Galbraith said 50 years ago) - that “happy talk” won’t...
Macworld, August 24, 2009
...t the best we’ve seen. [ Tim Moynihan is a senior editor for PC World . Macworld’s James Galbraith and Roman Loyola contributed to this review. ] See more like this: cameras consumer ...
Firedoglake, June 7, 2009
...learning why economists continue to push deregulation in the face of it causing repeated, intensifying crises can read James Galbraith’s Predatory State and Thomas Frank’s The Wrecking Crew .)  Senator Dorgan repeatedly returns to blaming...
Hat City Blog, May 4, 2009
...mugging’ of public and governmental functions for the maximum amount of wealth that could be grabbed. Or as James Galbraith has presented it: “Bush II simply and systematically nominated the most aggressive anti-environmental, anti-safety,...
THE BIZOP NEWS, April 5, 2009
...core of his expertise demonstrates why we have failed to learn the proper lessons from prior financial crises . James Galbraith extends Akerlof and Romer's analysis to show why the state aids fellow control frauds.   Minsky describes the "Ponzi" phase...
The Big Picture, February 27, 2009
...key word spooking investor sentiment during the past few days. Also on the video front, “hot-under-the-collar” discussions, featuring James Galbraith, Sheila Bair, Marc Gaber, Nouriel Roubini, Nassim Taleb and Richard Bove, took place on whether or...
TechnoBlog, February 23, 2009
...To compare Speedmark 5 scores for various Mac systems, visit our Apple Hardware Guide.—Macworld Lab testing by James Galbraith, Chris Holt, and Jerry Jung. So what if it were made by Apple? Every time I use the Wind, I am reminded that it most...
Dissident Voice, January 28, 2009
...who were not part of the Clinton-Bush era deregulation mania that led to the present mess, such as James Galbraith or Nobel Laureate George Stiglitz, who could hit the ground running, as the dire times require. Strike two. If things go badly in Iraq and...
Dane101 - The collaborative blog for Madison, Wisc, January 22, 2009
...people. I could think of some people, but I doubt they are on his list. I’d suggest James Galbraith , Joe Stiglitz …I really doubt these are people on his list. One person I would love to see is Shelia Bair , who actually has been in the middle of...