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James K. Galbraith

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Leader of The Measurement and Assessment of Inequalities on a World Scale

James K. Galbraith holds the Lloyd M. Bentsen Jr. Chair in Government/Business Relations at the Lyndon B. Johnson School of Public Affairs and a professorship in Government at The University of Texas at Austin.

Galbraith holds degrees from Harvard University (BA) and in economics from Yale University (MA, M.Phil, PhD). He was Executive Director of the Joint Economic Committee of the United States Congress in the early 1980s. 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 .

In 2010, he was elected to the . In 2014 he was co-winner with Angus Deaton of the In 2020 he received the of the Association for Evolutionary Economics.

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Inequality and Economic and Political Change: A Comparative Perspective

Paper Conference paper | By James K. Galbraith | Apr 2010

This paper describes the broad evolution of inequality in the world economy over the past four decades, and provides a summary account of the relationship between inequality, economic development, political regimes and the functional distribution of income.

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