James K. Galbraith

"A state that does not plan does not, by default turn this function over to the market. Even if the market is perfectly efficient, it still suffers from two ineradicable defects. The first relates to t…"

"Is the country full? No of course it isn’t. Have you tried flying over it lately?... Net immigration brings people, economic activity, jobs and taxes; businesses flourish where the population is growi…"

"The Predatory State is an economic system where entire sectors have been built up to feast upon public systems built originally for public purposes and largely serving the middle class. The corporate …"

"Since the 1980s, the American business cycle has been based on financial and credit bubbles, and therefore on the enrichment, through the capital markets, of a very small number of people in a very fe…"

"They include the privatizers of social security and those who put the drug companies in position to profit from Medicare. Everywhere you look, regulatory functions have been turned over to lobbyists. …"