James K. Galbraith holds the Lloyd M. Bentsen Jr. Chair in Government/Business Relations at the Lyndon B. Johnson School of Public Affairs and a professorship in Government at The University of Texas at Austin.

Galbraith holds degrees from Harvard University (BA) and in economics from Yale University (MA, M.Phil, PhD). He was Executive Director of the Joint Economic Committee of the United States Congress in the early 1980s. He chaired the board of Economists for Peace and Security from 1996 to 2016 (www.epsusa.org) and directs the University of Texas Inequality Project (http://utip.lbj.utexas.edu). He is a managing editor of Structural Change and Economic Dynamics.

In 2010, he was elected to the Accademia Nazionale dei Lincei. In 2014 he was co-winner with Angus Deaton of the Leontief Prize for Advancing the Frontiers of Economics. In 2020 he received the Veblen-Commons Award of the Association for Evolutionary Economics.

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CBO Not Competent to Assess Economics of Minimum Wage

Article | Feb 16, 2021

James K. Galbraith slams “unreliable” report claiming that raising the minimum wage would reduce jobs

Reconsideration of Fiscal Policy: A Comment

Article | Dec 7, 2020

A response to Jason Furman and Lawrence Summers

What the Government Needs to Do Next

Article | Mar 23, 2020

Tax rebates, tax cuts and business bailouts will not solve this crisis. Here’s what’s needed.

Who’s Afraid of John Maynard Keynes?

Article | Aug 30, 2019

An except from Galbraith’s review of Paul Davidson’s Who’s Afraid of John Maynard Keynes? Challenging Economic Governance in an Age of Growing Inequality

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When Economists Attack

Article Apr 20, 2016

How Gerald Friedman’s assessment of Bernie Sanders economic proposals prompted a rare public political spat among economists.

The Institute at ASSA

Event Discussion | Jan 2, 2016

Join us for a reception at the ASSA conference in San Francisco

The Greek Revolt Against Bad Economics Threatens European Elites

Article | Jul 9, 2015

A look behind the scenes of the Greek referendum and what could happen next.

Governing With A Higher Purpose To Spur Innovation

Video | Nov 7, 2014

How can the state manage its central role in the innovation economy if the state itself has become an instrument for facilitating corporate predation?