New Statesman - <![CDATA[Robert Skidelsky]]> http://www.newstatesman.com/writers/robert_skidelsky en <![CDATA[A thinker for our times]]> http://www.newstatesman.com/economy/2008/12/keynes-market-world-future http://www.newstatesman.com/economy/2008/12/keynes-market-world-future Thu, 18 Dec 2008 09:44:59 GMT Robert Skidelsky 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

]]> <![CDATA[Truck and barter]]> http://www.newstatesman.com/200604240041 http://www.newstatesman.com/200604240041 Mon, 24 Apr 2006 12:00:00 GMT Robert Skidelsky Surviving Capitalism: how we learned to live with the market and remained almost human Erik Ringmar Anthem Press, 210pp, £16.99 ISBN 1843311763

]]> <![CDATA[Arrested development]]> http://www.newstatesman.com/200505160036 http://www.newstatesman.com/200505160036 Mon, 16 May 2005 12:00:00 GMT Robert Skidelsky The End of Poverty: economic possibilities for our time Jeffrey Sachs; with a foreword by Bono Allen Lane, the Penguin Press, 397pp, £20 ISBN 0713998008

]]> <![CDATA[Engine of growth. Globalisation, despite its imperfections, represents the best hope there is for alleviating poverty. It follows that pro-globalist arguments are most compelling for poor countries. Being inefficient is a luxury that only the wealthy can afford]]> http://www.newstatesman.com/200407120040 http://www.newstatesman.com/200407120040 Mon, 12 Jul 2004 12:00:00 GMT Robert Skidelsky In Defence of Globalisation Jagdish Bhagwati Oxford University Press, 324pp, £17.99 ISBN 0195170253 Why Globalisation Works Martin Wolf Yale University Press, 398pp, £19.99

]]> <![CDATA[The global guru]]> http://www.newstatesman.com/200403150042 http://www.newstatesman.com/200403150042 Mon, 15 Mar 2004 12:00:00 GMT Robert Skidelsky The Bubble of American Supremacy George Soros Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 224pp, £12.99 ISBN 0297849069

]]> <![CDATA[NS Special Report - The killing fields]]> http://www.newstatesman.com/200401260011 http://www.newstatesman.com/200401260011 Mon, 26 Jan 2004 12:00:00 GMT Robert Skidelsky Changes in the character of war partially account for the mass murders of the past century. But the rise of democracy also plays a role

]]> <![CDATA[A Janus-faced world]]> http://www.newstatesman.com/200311170041 http://www.newstatesman.com/200311170041 Mon, 17 Nov 2003 12:00:00 GMT Robert Skidelsky The Breaking of Nations: order and chaos in the 21st century Robert Cooper Atlantic Books, 180pp, £14.99 ISBN 1843542307

]]> <![CDATA[Inside the bubble]]> http://www.newstatesman.com/200310270044 http://www.newstatesman.com/200310270044 Mon, 27 Oct 2003 12:00:00 GMT Robert Skidelsky The Roaring Nineties: seeds of destruction Joseph Stiglitz Allen Lane, the Penguin Press, 389pp, £18.99 ISBN 0713997222

]]> <![CDATA[The last serious politician]]> http://www.newstatesman.com/200305050034 http://www.newstatesman.com/200305050034 Mon, 05 May 2003 12:00:00 GMT Robert Skidelsky God and Caesar Shirley Williams Continuum, 156pp, £12.99 ISBN 0826467342

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