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James K Galbraith

James K Galbraith is professor of government and chair in government/business relations at the University of Texas at Austin. He is the author of Inequality: What Everyone Needs to Know and Welcome to the Poisoned Chalice: The Destruction of Greece and the Future of Europe.

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America’s Middle East War Exposes the Collapse of Its Own Strategy

James K Galbraith

The attack on Iran has shattered the very non-interventionist vision Trump’s own national security document enshrined just weeks earlier.

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Mainstream Economics: A Catalogue of Failures

James K Galbraith

A critique of mainstream economics’ failures and its resistance to change.

Financing the Green New Deal in Europe

James K Galbraith

Should investment in a New Deal for Europe come from taxation or borrowing? Only the latter makes economic and political sense, argues James K Galbraith.