Clifford J. and Virginia Foster Durr Lectures

Auburn Montgomery proudly hosted the annual Durr Lecture Series on civil liberties in memory of Clifford and Virginia Durr. Clifford J. Durr (1899-1975), a native Montgomerian who vigorously defended the protections of the Constitution, particularly the rights of free speech and equal protection of the law. Durr stood by his principles in the face of extreme adversity during the Civil Rights era. Virginia Durr was a champion for civil rights. She was a member of the NAACP and a longtime friend of Rosa Parks, accompanying her home from jail the night of her arrest. 

"The Great Crisis and the Predator State"

James K. Galbraith

James K. Galbraith
Lloyd M. Bensten Jr. Chair and Professor of Government

Saturday, April 17, 2010
7:30 p.m.
Moore Hall auditorium

Dr. James K. Galbraith holds degrees from Harvard and Yale. He studied as a Marshall Scholar at King's College, Cambridge in 1974-1975, and then served in several positions on the staff of the U.S. Congress, including Executive Director of the Joint Economic Committee. He was a guest scholar at the Brookings Institution in 1985. He directed the University of Texas at Austin’s Ph.D. Program in Public Policy from 1995 to 1997. He currently directs the University of Texas Inequality Project, an informal research group based at the Lyndon B. Johnson School of Public Affairs

Galbraith's most recent book is The Predator State: How Conservatives Abandoned the Free Market and Why Liberals Should Too (2008). He is the author of Balancing Acts: Technology, Finance and the American Future (1989) and Created Unequal: The Crisis in American Pay (1998). Inequality and Industrial Change: A Global View (Cambridge University Press, 2001), is co-edited with Maureen Berner. He has co-authored two textbooks, The Economic Problem with the late Robert L. Heilbroner and Macroeconomics with William Darity, Jr.

Galbraith is also a Senior Scholar of the Levy Economics Institute and Chair of the Board of Economists for Peace and Security, a global professional network. He writes a column for Mother Jones, and provides occasional commentary in many other publications, including The Texas Observer, The American Prospect, and The Nation.