Robert Skidelsky
Articles by Robert Skidelsky
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Economy
The boom was the illusion
- 13 October 2011
- 22 comments
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.
Non Fiction
Back from the Brink
- 19 September 2011
Alistair Darling’s Back from the Brink is a disjointed but compelling account of his time as Gordon Brown’s chancellor.
Economy
The Osborne ultimatum
- 31 March 2011
- 5 comments
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.
Economy
A box of botched Con tricks
- 28 October 2010
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.
Books
For a new world, new economics
- 30 August 2010
- 5 comments
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.
UK Politics
Deficit disorder: the Keynes solution
- 17 May 2010
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.
Economy
A thinker for our times
- 18 December 2008
- 1 comment
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
