James Galbraith
“The Great Financial Crisis at Two Years”
Wednesday, October 14, 2009 | 7:30 p.m.
Auer Performance Hall, John and Ruth Rhinehart Music Center
NO TICKETS REQUIRED FOR THIS LECTURE
James Galbraith’s Ivy League education and professional affiliations make him an ideal forecaster for America’s financial health and economic climates elsewhere. He is the Lloyd M. Bentsen Jr. Chair of Government/Business Relations and professor of government at the University of Texas at Austin. Galbraith’s most recent book, The Predatory State: How Conservatives Abandoned the Free Market and Why Liberals Should Too (2008), discusses the gap between conservative ideology and its use and abuse to cover up the George W. Bush administration’s Predator State, which he argues took advantage of the public sector and undermined public institutions for private profit.