James Galbraith

Prof.

Ekonom, Akademik

Austin

James K. Galbraith is a professor at the University of Texas at Austin. In the early 1980s, he was the executive director of the Joint Economic Committee of the United States Congress and previously an economist on the House Banking Committee. He chaired the board of Economists for Peace and Security from 1996 to 2016 and directs the Inequality Project at the University of Texas. He is the executive editor of the journal Structural Change and Economic Dynamics. From 1993 to 1997, Galbraith served as Chief Technical Advisor for Macroeconomic Reform at the State Planning Commission of the People's Republic of China. In 2010 he was elected to the Accademia Nazionale dei Lincei. In 2014, he became a co-winner of the Leontiev Prize for Advancement in Economics. In 2020, he won the Veblen-Commons Prize of the Association for Evolutionary Economics. In 2022 he was elected to the Russian Academy of Sciences and in 2023 to the Lisbon Academy of Sciences. He holds degrees from Harvard University (AB, magna cum laude), economics from Yale University (MA, M.Phil, Ph.D.) and academic honors from universities in Ecuador, France and the Russian Federation. He is a recipient of the Marshall Scholarship Award; a life member of the Council on Foreign Relations and the Texas Philosophical Society; and a member of the Free Economic Society, an organization of economists in Russia founded by Catherine the Great in 1765.

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