2026 James K. Galbraith: Political Science Researcher – H-Index, Publications & Awards

Discipline name	D-Index	World Ranking	Current World Ranking	National Ranking	Current National Ranking	Publications	Citations
Political Science	32	1010	912	518	447	340	4655
Economics and Finance	32	3449	3139	1852	1633	332	4704

Overview

James K. Galbraith is affiliated with The University of Texas at Austin in the United States. Their primary field of study is Economics, Econometrics, and Finance, with a focus on subfields such as Economics and Econometrics, General Economics, Econometrics and Finance, Sociology and Political Science, Management Science and Operations Research, and Development.

The main topics in Galbraith's research include:

Economic Theory and Policy
Income, Poverty, and Inequality
Economic theories and models
Economic Theory and Institutions
Market Dynamics and Volatility
Monetary Policy and Economic Impact
Economic Sanctions and International Relations

Their recent published papers are:

"Economics and the climate catastrophe" (2020) in Globalizations
"The quasi-inflation of 2021-2022: a case of bad analysis and worse response" (2023) in Review of Keynesian Economics
"The consequences of economic inequality for presidential elections in the United States" (2020) in Structural Change and Economic Dynamics
"The Dollar System in a Multi-Polar World" (2022) in International Journal of Political Economy
"The gift of sanctions: an analysis of assessments of the Russian economy, 2022-2023" (2024) in Review of Keynesian Economics

Frequent coauthors in their work include:

Jaehee Choi
Jing Chen
Pavlina R. Tcherneva
Thomas I. Palley

Galbraith has published multiple works in several recurring venues, notably:

Review of Keynesian Economics
SSRN Electronic Journal
Intereconomics
Emancipations
Structural Change and Economic Dynamics

In addition to journal articles, Galbraith has published books, including "Welcome to the Poisoned Chalice" (2020) with Yale University Press.

Best Publications

Inequality and Instability: A Study of the World Economy Just Before the Great Crisis

James K. Galbraith

334
Citations
ESTIMATING THE INEQUALITY OF HOUSEHOLD INCOMES: A STATISTICAL APPROACH TO THE CREATION OF A DENSE AND CONSISTENT GLOBAL DATA SET

James K. Galbraith;Hyunsub Kum

324
Citations
Created Unequal: The Crisis in American Pay

James K. Galbraith

303
Citations
Time to Ditch the NAIRU

James K Galbraith

294
Citations
The Predator State: How Conservatives Abandoned the Free Market and Why Liberals Should Too

James K. Galbraith

254
Citations
Persistent Disparity: Race and Economic Inequality in the United States Since 1945

James K. Galbraith;William A. Darity;Samuel L. Myers

206
Citations
Constructing Long and Dense Time-Series of Inequality Using the Theil Index

Pedro Conceicao;James K. Galbraith

151
Citations
Inequality and Industrial Change: A Global View

James K. Galbraith;Berner Maureen

138
Citations
The End of Normal: The Great Crisis and the Future of Growth

James K. Galbraith

118
Citations
Inequality and Unemployment in Europe: The American Cure

James K. Galbraith;James K. Galbraith;Pedro Conceicao;Pedro Ferreira

104
Citations
State Income Inequality and Presidential Election Turnout and Outcomes

James K. Galbraith;J. Travis Hale

98
Citations
A perfect crime: inequality in the age of globalization

James K. Galbraith

97
Citations
Inequality, unemployment and growth: New measures for old controversies

James K. Galbraith

97
Citations
Constructing Long and Dense Time-Series of Inequality Using the Theil Index

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96
Citations
The Experience of Rising Inequality in Russia and China during the Transition (1)

James K. Galbraith;Ludmila Krytynskaia;Qifei Wang

83
Citations
Inequality and Economic Growth: A Global View Based on Measures of Pay

James K. Galbraith;Hyunsub Kum

77
Citations
Global inequality and global macroeconomics

James K. Galbraith

77
Citations
Stabilizing an Unstable Economy: A Twentieth Century Fund Report

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73
Citations
The Theil Index in Sequences of Nested and Hierarchic Grouping Structures: Implications for the Measurement of Inequality through Time with Data Aggregated at Different Levels of Industrial Classification

Pedro Conceição;James K. Galbraith;Peter Bradford

68
Citations
Kapital for the Twenty-First Century?

James K. Galbraith

64
Citations
Pay Inequality in Turkey in the Neo-Liberal Era, 1980-2001

Adem Y. Elveren;James K. Galbraith

64
Citations
Inequality and economic and political change: a comparative perspective

James K. Galbraith

63
Citations
The distribution of income

James K. Galbraith;James K. Galbraith

63
Citations
Inequality and Industrial Change: Toward a New Kuznets Hypothesis: Theory and Evidence on Growth and Inequality

Pedro Conceição;James K. Galbraith

59
Citations
Inequality and Economic Growth: Data Comparisons and Econometric Tests

James K. Galbraith;James K. Galbraith;Hyunsub Kum;Hyunsub Kum;Hyunsub Kum

33
Citations
Inequality: What Everyone Needs to Know®

James K. Galbraith

26
Citations

Frequent Co-Authors

William Darity Duke University

L. Randall Wray Levy Economics Institute of Bard College

Paul Davidson University of Tennessee at Knoxville

Joseph E. Stiglitz Columbia University

Gøsta Esping-Andersen Pompeu Fabra University

Frederic S. Mishkin Columbia University

Ben S. Bernanke Brookings Institution

Edward N. Wolff New York University

External Links

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