Keynote | James K. Galbraith | Will Austerity and Precarity Finish Off the Human Species?

The OSUN Economic Democracy Initiative and Levy Economics Institute welcomed scholars for a two-day, in-person workshop in November 2023 on new research directions in the areas of money, finance, and public policy for intersecting crises, which explored synergies between different research traditions.
Keynote | Will Austerity and Precarity Finish Off the Human Species?
Introduction by Albena Azmanova, OSUN-EDI, University of Kent
Speaker:
James K. Galbraith, Ph.D., is the Lloyd M. Bentsen Jr. Chair in Government/Business Relations and Professor of Government at the Lyndon B. Johnson School of Public Affairs, University of Texas at Austin. He is also a Senior Scholar at the Levy Economics Institute. He was executive director of the Joint Economic Committee of the United States Congress in the early 1980s, and before that, an economist for the House Banking Committee. He chaired the board of Economists for Peace and Security from 1996 to 2016 and directs The University of Texas Inequality Project. He is a managing editor of Structural Change and Economic Dynamics.
For more information about this conference and its speakers, see the conference program: docs.google.co...

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Always a pleasure to listen to Galbraith. He's such an excellent speaker.

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Why is this economist so sensible when compared to many of his peers? Outrageous behaviour for an economist!
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