Robert Skidelsky

Lord Robert Skidelsky (GB), Professor of Political Economy, University of Warwick Get involved. #debategrowth #46SGS Facebook: fb.com/StGallenSymposium Twitter: twitter.com/SG__Symposium LinkedIn: http://bit.ly/1ZwbM0Y

LONDON – The European Union has never been very popular in Britain. It joined late, and its voters will be asked on June 23 whether they want to leave early. The referendum’s outcome will not be legally binding on the government; but it is inconceivable that Britain will stay if the public’s verdict is to quit. Over the years, the focus of the British debate about Europe has shifted. In the 1960s and 1970s, the question was whether Britain could afford not to join what was then the...

LONDON – In recent decades, economics has been colonizing the study of human activities hitherto considered exempt from formal calculus. What critics call “economics imperialism” has given rise to an economics of love, of art, of music, of language, of literature, and of much else. The unifying idea underlying this extension of economics is that whatever people do, whether it is making love or making widgets, they aim to achieve the best results at the least cost. These benefits and...

Keynes - The Return of the Master" ist die kürzere und auf aktuelle Entwicklung fokussierte Version der Biographie John Maynard Keynes von Skidelsky.: http://www.investresearch.net/keynes-robert-skidelsky/ Das Buch kann man hier kaufen: http://amzn.to/1pmVqgj

   LONDON – In 1935, John Maynard Keynes wrote to George Bernard Shaw: “I believe myself to be writing a book on economic theory which will largely revolutionize – not, I suppose, at once but in the course of the next ten years – the way the world thinks about its economic problems.” And, indeed, Keynes’s magnum opus, The General Theory of Employment, Interest and Money, published in February 1936, transformed economics and economic policymaking. Eighty years later, does Keynes’s...

The International Labour Organization hosted a discussion looking at the future of work and the implications of technology on jobs. Panellist Lord Robert Skidelsky, Emeritus Professor of Political Economy at the University of Warwick in the United Kingdom, shares his thoughts on the subject. Watch other panellists' contributions who participated in the discussion: http://www.ilo.org/inst/events/WCMS_447921/lang--en/index.htm

   LONDON – Is there a “safe” debt/income ratio for households or debt/GDP ratio for governments? In both cases, the answer is yes. And in both cases, it is impossible to say exactly what that ratio is. Nonetheless, this has become the most urgent macroeconomic question of the moment, owing not just to spiraling household and government debt since 2000, but also – and more important – to the excess concern that government debt is now eliciting. According to a 2015 report by the...

Keynote by professor emeritus Robert Skidelsky, University of Warwick at the conference "Teaching Economics in the 21st Century" at the HWR Berlin. More info at: https://www.plurale-oekonomik.de/projekte/tagung-teaching-economics-in-the-21st-century/

Robert Skidelsky is a Fellow of the British Academy (FBA), an author, an historian and an Emeritus Professor of Political Economy at Warwick University. He's written extensively on John Maynard Keynes, his latest book being "Keynes: The Return of the Master". Here he discusses banks, British austerity, income inequality and the Syrian refugee crisis. If you want to keep up with all our content, be sure to subscribe! Don't forget to follow us on: Facebook:...