Conversations with Great Minds: Economist James K. Galbraith

The Big Picture with Thom Hartmann, May 2, 2011

In a two-part interview, Senior Scholar Galbraith discusses the “vast raid” on the home equity of the middle class by financial predators, “green” investment as a basis for economic growth, the importance of government regulation in establishing and maintaining markets, and how the substance of domestic policy has moved away from fostering “the common good.”