Robert Skidelsky
Articles by Robert Skidelsky
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Economy
A thinker for our times
- 18 December 2008
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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
Books
Truck and barter
- 24 April 2006
Surviving Capitalism: how we learned to live with the market and remained almost human Erik Ringmar Anthem Press, 210pp, £16.99 ISBN 1843311763
Books
Arrested development
- 16 May 2005
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
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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
- 12 July 2004
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
North America
The global guru
- 15 March 2004
The Bubble of American Supremacy George Soros Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 224pp, £12.99 ISBN 0297849069
Politics
NS Special Report - The killing fields
- 26 January 2004
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
Politics
A Janus-faced world
- 17 November 2003
The Breaking of Nations: order and chaos in the 21st century Robert Cooper Atlantic Books, 180pp, £14.99 ISBN 1843542307
World Affairs
Inside the bubble
- 27 October 2003
The Roaring Nineties: seeds of destruction Joseph Stiglitz Allen Lane, the Penguin Press, 389pp, £18.99 ISBN 0713997222
Books
The last serious politician
- 05 May 2003
God and Caesar Shirley Williams Continuum, 156pp, £12.99 ISBN 0826467342
