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James Galbraith at the SAP World Tour 2011
Friday, 7 Oct 2011 James Galbraith will be the keynote speaker at the SAP World Tour 2011 that will take place at the Athens Concert Hall. 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 College, Cambridge in 1974 to 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 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 served as Chief Technical Adviser to the State Planning Commission, P.R. China, on a project on macroeconomic reform from 1994 to 1997. 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. Galbraiths latest book Unbearable Cost: Bush, Greenspan and the Economics of Empire was published in 2006. Galbraith argues that modern America has fallen prey to a wealthy, government controlling predatory class. For more information about this event please visit http://www.sap.gr For more information about James Galbraith please contact us at +30 210 8002866, info@happycreations.gr |
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