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James K. Galbraith

James K. Galbraith is the author of Inequality: What Everyone Needs to Know and Welcome to the Poisoned Chalice: The Destruction of Greece and the Future of Europe. He served as an economist on the staff of the Committee on Banking, Finance and Urban Affairs, U.S. House of Representatives, 1975-1980, and presently teaches at the University of Texas at Austin.

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May 2, 2018
On April 23, Bernie Sanders announced he will propose a “job guarantee” program—the most radical new piece of economic policy legislation in decades. It didn’t take long for the bullets to fly. Predictably, they immediately came from Megan McArdle and National ...

We Told You So

Like many Americans, I was doing everything I could to help elect Barack Obama. It wasn’t all that much—but as an economist in Texas, I had some authority on the thinking of former Senator Phil Gramm, John McCain’s chief economic adviser. I’d made the front page of the ...