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National Politics

Robert Skidelsky – “We’re not helping Ukraine by continuing to support a war it cannot win”

September 24, 2023 Mathew D. Rose 0

“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 […]

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National Politics

Robert Skidelsky – The false promise of democratic peace

May 10, 2022 Mathew D. Rose 1

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 […]

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Economics

Robert Skidelsky – Where Has All the Money Gone?

September 24, 2021 Mathew D. Rose 0

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 […]

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Climate Crisis

Robert Skidelsky, Will Hutton – Sustaining and Creating Employment now and Post Covid

November 16, 2020 Mathew D. Rose 0

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 […]

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Economics

Robert Skidelsky – COVID-19 and The Noah’s Ark Problem

April 30, 2020 Mathew D. Rose 0

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 […]

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Economics

Robert Skidelsky – The Monetarist Fantasy is Over

February 22, 2020 Mathew D. Rose 0

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 […]

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Economics

Robert Skidelsky – The good life after work

May 16, 2019 Mathew D. Rose 0

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 […]

Economics

Money and Government by Robert Skidelsky

November 15, 2018 Mathew D. Rose 0

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 […]

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Economics

Robert Skidelsky – A Keynesian perspective on the Budget

November 5, 2018 Mathew D. Rose 0

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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Robert Skidelsky: How austerity broke Britain – and how we can recover

October 12, 2018 Mathew D. Rose 0

After ten years of wrongheaded and brutal spending cuts, Keynes’s warning that bad economics produces political extremism is more important than ever. Read here

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Ben Wray: The Ministry for the Future – book review

September 25, 2023 0

Kim Stanley Robinson’s acclaimed climate novel (2020, Orbit Books) has been praised far and wide, from Andreas Malm to Barack Obama. Robinson tells a gripping story about what our near future may look like, underpinned […]

EU politics

Eurowhiteness: Culture, Empire and Race in the European Project by Hans Kundnani

September 23, 2023 0

Book Review by Peter Ramsay Liberals and leftists were quick to denounce the vote to leave the EU as an expression of racist nationalism. It was a lazy slander for which there was little evidence […]

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