John K. Galbraith and the reconstruction of a conflict-centered public policy research agenda.
Abstract
The present work focuses on the main marks in John K. Galbraith’s work, based on an analysis of more than 13 publications of diverse textuality (among academic works, popular books, interviews in graphic media and his autobiography). Advancing beyond the evaluation that economists have made of his work within the economic system, we sustain that many of his postulations have value as a condition for the possibility of an empirical research agenda in public policies that recovers the conflict, the (unequal and traversed by power dynamics) relationships between market actors among themselves and with the various state agents, within the framework of distributive disputes over access, control and administration of scarce basic goods.
