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James K. Galbraith

James K. Galbraith is Lloyd M. Bentsen Jr. Chair in Government/Business Relations and Professor of Government at the University of Texas at Austin and author of Inequality: What Everyone Needs to Know.

Articles

An exchange.

Noam Chomsky, James K. Galbraith

In 1963, JFK ordered a complete withdrawal from Vietnam.

James K. Galbraith

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The view that ownership conveys exclusive rights is absurd.
James K. Galbraith
Full employment is already a statutory objective of the U.S. government. I know—I helped to write the law. In 1976, as a young staffer for the House Banking Committee, I was tasked...
James K. Galbraith

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