About James Galbraith
James K. Galbraith is director of the University of Texas Inequality Project.He writes a regular column on economic and political issues for the Texas Observer.
Articles by James Galbraith
Globally unequal: a response to Clive Crook
In their rush to claim credit for globalisation’s bright spots, partisans of neoliberal economics cannot evade blame for its disasters.
Globalisation and inequality: 'The Economist' gets it wrong
The prestigious “Economist” uses the work of Stanley Fischer to depict a world where inequality between rich and poor is narrowing. Is it telling the truth?
'We send our best guy to Iraq and he comes home in a box'
James Galbraith remembers a good man, and recalls a terrible warning of the Iraqi war.
The real American model
The US economic model that commands around a third of the world’s wealth fascinates and infuriates Europeans. But both reactions reveal ignorance of its most essential features. The keys to its success lie not in industry, but in those sectors providing social amenities to the middle class – health care, education, housing and pensions: systems of provision that have little to do with the free market.
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Europe from the bottom up
European debate
Democratic Wealth
Nuclear non-proliferation
Women and the Arab Spring
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Remote control war
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