Home > Events > Events for Friends > Evening With James Galbraith Evening With James Galbraith Tuesday, May 5, 2009, 6:00 p.m. James K. Galbraith serves as the Lloyd M. Bentsen Chair in Government and Business Relations and Professor of Economics at the LBJ School of Public Affairs at The University of Texas at Austin. His distinguished record includes positions on the staff at the U.S. Congress, guest scholar at the Brookings Institution, Fulbright Distinguished Visiting Lectureship in China, and Carnegie Scholar. His recent research has focused on the measurement and understanding of inequality in the world economy, and he leads an informal research group called The University of Texas Inequality Project with several of the School’s distinguished graduate students. Professor Galbraith writes a regular column for Mother Jones and is often called to comment on the economy in the media. He has authored or co-authored five books. His most recent book, The Predator State: How Conservatives Abandoned the Free Market and Why Liberals Should Too, has garnered much attention during the present economic crisis. ***Tickets will not be mailed. Please bring your current Friends membership card to the event for admittance. Those without membership cards will be directed to the membership desk onsite. |