BIO

Senior Scholar James K. Galbraith is a professor at the Lyndon B. Johnson School of Public Affairs and the Department of Government at the University of Texas at Austin. He is also director of the University of Texas Inequality Project. A focus of his research is examining issues pertaining to employment and inequality, especially determinants of global inequality. His books include Inequality and Industrial Change: A Global View (with M. Berner) (2001); Created Unequal: The Crisis in American Pay 1998; Macroeconomics (with W. Darity Jr.) (1992); and Balancing Acts: Technology, Finance and the American Future (1989). Galbraith received a B.A. from Harvard University and a Ph.D. in economics from Yale University. He also studied economics as a Marshall Scholar at King’s College, Cambridge University.

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