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Plan B: Start a national investment bank

Robert Skidelsky — Tue, 18 Oct 2011 10:42:32 GMT

The boom was the illusion

Robert Skidelsky — Thu, 13 Oct 2011 09:54:03 GMT

The world economy is on the edge of a precipice. The best we can hope for now is a managed retreat from the wilder shores of globalisation. The alternative is the collapse of the euro, protectionism � and even war.

Back from the Brink

Robert Skidelsky — Mon, 19 Sep 2011 00:00:00 GMT

Alistair Darling�s Back from the Brink is a disjointed but compelling account of his time as Gordon Brown�s chancellor.

The Osborne ultimatum

Robert Skidelsky — Thu, 31 Mar 2011 11:52:02 GMT

The ideas of two dead economists, David Ricardo and J M Keynes, are shaping the cuts debate. The coalition is in thrall to the former�s small-government agenda and says there is no alternative � but its plans aren�t working.

A box of botched Con tricks

Robert Skidelsky — Thu, 28 Oct 2010 11:54:14 GMT

Defenders of George Osborne�s plans to hack back public spending cite the Geddes Axe of 1921 and the 1981 Budget as proof that rigour is what will pull us out of this recession. History shows they�re wrong and Keynes still right, argues Robert Skidelsky.

For a new world, new economics

Robert Skidelsky — Mon, 30 Aug 2010 10:14:51 GMT

The 2008 financial crash and the shift of power from west to east raise questions about the future of capitalism. Robert Skidelsky appraises the latest thinking, from Ha-Joon Chang, Anatole Kaletsky and Ian Bremmer.

Deficit disorder: the Keynes solution

Robert Skidelsky — Mon, 17 May 2010 08:29:39 GMT

With the crisis in Greece as the trigger, the world monetary system is starting to disintegrate. Robert Skidelsky, the acclaimed biographer of John Maynard Keynes, argues that this is not the time for a new chancellor to put fiscal stimulus into reverse.

The Trouble With Markets: Saving Capitalism From Itself

Robert Skidelsky — Thu, 03 Dec 2009 05:20:03 GMT

A thinker for our times

Robert Skidelsky — Thu, 18 Dec 2008 09:44:59 GMT

Global leaders are once again reminding themselves of the insights of the Cambridge academic who helped relaunch the world economy after the Second World War. He deserves to ride again, writes his biographer Robert Skidelsky

Truck and barter

Robert Skidelsky — Mon, 24 Apr 2006 12:00:00 GMT

Surviving Capitalism: how we learned to live with the market and remained almost human Erik Ringmar Anthem Press, 210pp, �16.99 ISBN 1843311763