James Galbraith on the Global Financial Crisis - Events - IIEA - The Institute of International and European Affairs

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05 Jun 2009

James Galbraith on the Global Financial Crisis

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Acclaimed economist and author of the recent book The Predator State: How Conservatives Abandoned the Free Market and Why Liberals Should Too, Professor James K. Galbraith addressed members of the IIEA on the current global financial crisis and the ramifications of the crisis for both the United States and the rest of the world.

About the Speaker:

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

He holds degrees from Harvard and Yale (Ph.D. in economics, 1981). He studied 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.

Professor Galbraith's new book is The Predator State: How Conservatives Abandoned the Free Market and Why Liberals Should Too (2008). He is also the author of Balancing Acts: Technology, Finance and the American Future (1989) and Created Unequal: The Crisis in American Pay (1998).

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