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. 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.

Galbraith is the author of five books and several hundred scholarly and policy articles. He holds degrees from Harvard and Yale (Ph.D. in Economics, 1981). He studied economics as a Marshall Scholar at King's College, Cambridge, and later served on the staff of the U.S. Congress, including as Executive Director of the Joint Economic Committee. He held a Fulbright Distinguished Visiting Lectureship in China in the summer of 2001, and was named a Carnegie Scholar in 2003.

Visit the web site of the University of Texas Inequality Project for current research and an archive of published writings. Papers on macroeconomic topics can be found on the Levy web site. The work of EPS is here.

Blog Entries by James K. Galbraith

Old Mistakes Die Hard

17 Comments | Posted November 23, 2009 | 10:34 AM (EST)


As part of the Roosevelt Institute's 10-part series on the Jobs Crisis, running on the New Deal 2.0 blog from Nov. 12-25, I was asked to reflect on what can be done to get Americans working again. Here's my take.

I'm tempted to say that the United States is...

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The Johnson Legacy and the Obama Challenge: Remarks to the LBJ Centennial Conference

Posted December 9, 2008 | 11:03 PM (EST)


We have spent a generation trying to repeal the New Deal and the Great Society, and the fact that the results are disastrous is now clear to all. On December 4, 2008, the LBJ Presidential Library hosted a symposium honoring President Johnson's centennial. Invited to speak, I chose to reflect...
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A Criminal Idea

Posted January 27, 2008 | 02:41 PM (EST)


Five former NATO generals, including the former chairman of the US Joint Chiefs of Staff, John Shalikashvili, have written a "radical manifesto" which states that "the West must be ready to resort to a preemptive nuclear attack to try to halt the 'imminent' spread of nuclear and other weapons of...

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Molly Ivins, Our Magnet

Posted February 7, 2007 | 03:08 PM (EST)


The Texas Observer has published my tribute to Molly Ivins. I won't repeat it here, except for a small part. The "final Fridays" were a monthly event, held for years at Molly's house until her health made it impossible to go on.

"I used to go to the final Fridays...

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Take the Pledge: Don't Pay Attention

Posted December 10, 2006 | 04:37 PM (EST)


In December 1970, 36 years ago this month, I replied to a very small ad in the Harvard Crimson, and in that way became the very first student volunteer for the undeclared presidential campaign of Senator George S. McGovern.

On the basis of that thin and ancient credential, I now...

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First Words

Posted June 1, 2006 | 02:28 PM (EST)


"It is told that the such are the aerodynamics and wing-loading of the bumble-bee that, in principle, it cannot fly. It does, and the knowledge that it defies the august authority of Isaac Newton and Orville Wright must keep the bee in constant fear of a crack-up. One can assume,...

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Does Cheney Write the Front-Page Headlines at the NY Times?

Posted November 2, 2005 | 10:58 AM (EST)


When Bush pressures red-state Democrats to back a right-wing extremist for the Supreme Court, that's "GOP Reaches to Other Party on Supreme Court Pick." And when Harry Reid stands up and demands that the Senate intelligence committee keep its promise to investigate the abuses that led to war in...

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Pardons and Prosecutions

Posted October 31, 2005 | 05:40 PM (EST)


Steve Schlesinger's post, the comments on it, and many of the comments on my Sunday post agree that Libby must have strong grounds for belief that he will be pardoned. Schlesinger suggests that Libby may have already received direct assurances, in the form of a "secret handshake" –...

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A Few Very Simple Thoughts on Plamegate

Posted October 30, 2005 | 12:37 PM (EST)


1. This is a very straightforward indictment. It charges that Scooter Libby lied to the FBI and to the grand jury about conversations with Timothy Russert, Matthew Cooper and Judith Miller. If it goes to trial, Russert's testimony will show that Libby did not learn Valerie Plame's identity from Russert....

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Can Bernanke Adjust?

Posted October 26, 2005 | 12:05 AM (EST)


Ben Bernanke got the nod to replace Alan Greenspan on Monday because, as the Financial Times noted, Bush needed some good news this week. It's too bad Bush hasn't seen similar troubles before; they're good for his score.

Bernanke is a capable, professional economist. He's also the first modern academic...

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Democrats Must Choose

Posted September 4, 2005 | 11:44 PM (EST)


When Sherman marched through Georgia he discovered the Confederacy was hollow: nothing stood in his way. And so it was with Katrina at New Orleans. There was no plan for plugging leaks in the levees, no plan to evacuate the poor from the city before the storm hit, no mobilization...

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