The Bank of England’s failure to respond effectively to the worst inflation in four decades underscores the need to abandon the outdated notion that fiscal and monetary policy can be kept separate. If governments are […]
“The war aims espoused by our government are unachievable. Ukraine is not in a position to fight the kind of war it can win” Robert Skidelsky is a British economic historian and a member of […]
The belief that democracies don’t start wars, but only dictatorships do, has been central to the Anglo-American worldview. But it is more complicated Robert Skidelsky is Crossbench peer and Emeritus Professor of Political Economy at […]
Quantitative easing risks generating its own boom-and-bust cycles, and can thus be seen as an example of state-created financial instability. Governments must now abandon the fiction that central banks create money independently from government, and […]
Some interesting ideas here – also for the EU. God knows why they put in the very last point. Robert Skidelsky is Crossbench peer and Emeritus Professor of Political Economy at Warwick University Will Hutton […]
Given that we have no ethically accepted principle of choosing between who is to live and who to die, we should take exceptional pains to ensure that we do not face acute shortages of life-preserving […]
The only stabilizing that a capitalist market economy needed, Friedman said, was of the price level. Provided that inflation was controlled by independent central banks and government budgets were kept “balanced,” economies would normally be […]
We must have ends that are more compelling than merely wanting more products and services. Robert Skidelsky is a Council member of Progressive Economy Forum and Emeritus Professor of Political Economy at Warwick University Cross-posted […]
Book review by David Shirreff Robert Skidelsky, acclaimed biographer of Keynes, anatomises an economic and monetary landscape that could be fertile ground for a Keynesian revival There is something seriously wrong with classic economic […]
Robert Skidelsky, political economist and author of the definitive biography of economist John Maynard Keynes, explains the different ways in which governments have thought about the Budget over history, and explores how Keynes’s ideas can […]
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