Robert Skidelsky

Articles by Robert Skidelsky

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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

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

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

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

The global guru

  • 15 March 2004

The Bubble of American Supremacy George Soros Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 224pp, £12.99 ISBN 0297849069

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

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

Inside the bubble

  • 27 October 2003

The Roaring Nineties: seeds of destruction Joseph Stiglitz Allen Lane, the Penguin Press, 389pp, £18.99 ISBN 0713997222

The last serious politician

  • 05 May 2003

God and Caesar Shirley Williams Continuum, 156pp, £12.99 ISBN 0826467342

Fidel Castro

The last revolutionary

The last revolutionary

Steve Richards

On Tory policy

Our future in their hands

Science

Religion and Darwin

Since the dawn  of time

James Macintyre

Miliband's dilemma

Brussels is back with a vengeance

Will Self

On Oscar Wilde

Where the Wilde things are

Film review

Bright Star

Bright Star (PG)

Books

Paul Auster

Invisible

Interview

Alain de Botton

The Books Interview: Alain de Botton

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