Rate My Professor James Galbraith

Galbraith's research interests encompass economics, social policy, development policy, macroeconomic policy, monetary policy, economic development policies, comparative economic policy, and economic inequality; he directs the University of Texas Inequality Project. Among his major publications are Entropy Economics: The Living Basis of Value and Production (2025), Welcome to the Poisoned Chalice: The Destruction of Greece and the Future of Europe (2016), Inequality: What Everyone Needs to Know (2016), The End of Normal: The Great Crisis and the Future of Growth (2014), Inequality and Instability: A Study of the World Economy Just Before the Great Crisis (2012), The Predator State: How Conservatives Abandoned the Free Market and Why Liberals Should Too (2008), Created Unequal: The Crisis in American Pay (1998), and Balancing Acts: Technology, Finance and the American Future (1989). He has received prestigious awards including election to the Accademia Nazionale dei Lincei (2010), the Leontief Prize for Advancing the Frontiers of Economics (2014), the Veblen-Commons Award (2020), election to the Russian Academy of Sciences (2022), and the Lisbon Academy of Sciences (2023). Galbraith is a managing editor of Structural Change and Economic Dynamics, former chair of the board of Economists for Peace and Security (1996-2016), president of the Association for Evolutionary Economics (2012), and senior scholar of the Levy Economics Institute.