The University of Texas at Austin

James K. Galbraith teaches economics and a variety of other subjects at the LBJ School. He holds degrees from Harvard (B.A. magna cum laude, 1974) and Yale (Ph.D. in economics, 1981). He studied economics as a Marshall Scholar at King's College, Cambridge in 1974-1975, and then served in several positions on the staff of the U.S. Congress, including Executive Director of the Joint Economic Committee. He was a guest scholar at the Brookings Institution in 1985. He directed the LBJ School's Ph.D. Program in Public Policy from 1995 to 1997. He directs the University of Texas Inequality Project, an informal research group based at the LBJ School.

Galbraith has co-authored two textbooks, The Economic Problem with the late Robert L. Heilbroner and Macroeconomics with William Darity, Jr. He is the author of Balancing Acts: Technology, Finance and the American Future (1989) and Created Unequal: The Crisis in American Pay (1998). His most recent book, Inequality and Industrial Change: A Global View (Cambridge University Press, 2001), is coedited with Maureen Berner and features contributions from six LBJ School Ph.D. students.

Galbraith maintains several outside connections, including serving as a Senior Scholar of the Levy Economics Institute and as Chair of the Board of Economists for Peace and Security. He writes a column called "Econoclast" for Mother Jones, and occasional commentary in many other publications, including The Texas Observer, The American Prospect, and The Nation. He is an occasional commentator for Public Radio International's Marketplace.

Archive of Galbraith papers

Education

Ph.D., Yale University, 1981; M. Phil., Yale University, 1978; M.A., Yale University, 1977; A.B. (magna cum laude), Harvard University, 1974

Current Positions

Chair, Economists for Peace and Security; Senior Scholar, Levy Economics Institute; Nonresident Fellow, Center for Global Development; Associate Member, Cambridge Center for Economic and Public Policy, University of Cambridge; columnist, Mother Jones

Previous Positions

Visiting scholar, The Brookings Institution (1985); Executive Director, Joint Economic Committee, U.S. Congress (1981-1982); economist, Committee on Banking, Finance and Urban Affairs, U.S. House of Representatives (1975-76, 1977-80); visiting lecturer, Department of Economics, University of Maryland (1979-1980).

Predator State: How Conservatives Abandoned the Free Market and Why Liberals Should Too (forthcoming, The Free Press, August 2008), Unbearable Cost: Bush, Greenspan and the Economics of Empire (Palgrave-MacMillan, 2006), Inequality and Industrial Change: A Global View (Cambridge University Press, 2001); Created Unequal: The Crisis in American Pay (1998); Macroeconomics (Houghton-Mifflin, 1994); The Economic Problem (Prentice Hall, 1990); Balancing Acts: Technology, Finance and the American Future (Basic Books, 1989)

Economics
International Affairs
Science and Technology Policy
Trade