James K. Galbraith

Inequality is a charged topic. Measures of income inequality rose in the USA in the 1990s to levels not seen since 1929 and gave rise to a suspicion, not for the first time, of a link between radical inequality and financial instability with a resulting crisis under capitalism. Professional macroeconomists have generally taken little interest in...

To było prawdziwe błogosławieństwo, że Jamie Galbraith zgodził się doradzać nam w ministerstwie finansów, w okresie naszej historycznej walki przeciwko skrajnej gospodarczej bezrozumności, w jej skrajnie mściwej postaci. Mieć w Jamesie bliskiego przyjaciela to już niemal szczyt szczęścia. Janis Warufakis, były Minister Finansów Grecji Kryzys...

In this book, James K. Galbraith offers a vast expansion of the capacity to calculate measures of economic inequality both at lower and higher levels of aggregation. Breaking down traditional administrative boundaries to economic research, he provides a more sophisticated and more accurate picture of inequality around the world, and how inequality...