Robert Skidelsky

PEF Council member Robert Skidlesky discusses the points in his chapter: * Return the state to its primary position in shaping the economy * Ensure that fiscal space is not dictated by international bond markets * Increase the government's share of investment in the economy * Choose the technology that we want.

PEF Council Member Robert Skidelsky explains the purpose of PEF's new book which is designed to reset the way we think about economic policy and to make us think boldly and imaginatively about what we want our country to be

"The Concept of Usury and its place in the thought of John Maynard Keynes"

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Work is the ultimate escape from poverty. But the futile sort demanded by the United Kingdom’s income-support scheme puts many of society’s weakest members on a path to nowhere, because it reflects a welfare ideology that fails to distinguish fantasy from reality. LONDON – Mahatma Gandhi probably never said, “The greatness of a nation can be judged by how it treats its weakest member.” But that doesn’t make it any less true. And nowadays, the United Kingdom is in danger of receiving a...

Keynes' biographer Lord Robert Skidelsky talks about JMK's interesting social life, and shares anecdotes which few of us know. YSI is an initiative of the Institute for New Economic Thinking Twitter: https://twitter.com/ysi_commons Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/ysicommunity/ Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/YoungScholarsInitiative Blog: https://www.economicquestions.org/

As countries emerge from the COVID-19 pandemic, John Maynard Keynes’s emphasis on the need to implement post-crisis economic policies in the right order is highly relevant. But sustainability considerations mean that the distinction between recovery and reform is less clear cut than it seemed in the 1930s. LONDON – John Maynard Keynes was a staunch champion of US President Franklin D. Roosevelt’s New Deal. The road to a civilized future, he wrote, went through Washington, not Moscow –...

Leitura Resenha de Money and Government: the past and future of economics, de Robert SkidelskyTexto de autoria de David Graeber (1961-2020)

The promise of a “final” end to lockdowns in the spring of 2021 is the kind of hyperbole we have come to expect about new products and policies. The Oxford University vaccine may work; it may even be delivered effectively. Meanwhile, Covid-19 is still around, the UK government is extending lockdown for large parts of the country and effective protections are still being ignored, at grave cost. From the start of the pandemic, the policy choice in Europe has been presented as a trade-off...

The furlough and the business support schemes, started in March, would end in October to coincide with the reopening of the economy. This meant that the UK economy would be much the same -give and take some minor “scarring”- in 2021 as it was in 2019: a year’s growth lost, but that was the limit of the damage. The expectation of a fourth quarter bounce-back was always unrealistic: severely damaged economies never “bounce back” unaided. The Chancellor’s response to the “second wave” of...