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...
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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/
Read More »Robert Skidelsky on Banks, Syria and Inequality
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:...
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Lord Robert Skidelsky (UK): Perspectives on globalisation and democracy
MP, House of Lords, UK Parliament; author of a ma-jor, award-winning biography of British economist John Maynard Keynes Lord Robert Skidelsky. Presentation "Perspectives on globalisation and democracy" in the frame of the seminar "Sapere aude" (Tbilisi, Georgia, September 22-26)
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Bibliorecomanació: ‘John Maynard Keynes’ de Robert Skidelsky.
Read More »SPERI Annual Lecture 2015: ‘The Failure of Austerity’ by Lord Robert Skidelsky
Lord Robert Skidelsky, 6 May 2015 – FT Masterclass Lecture Series
In this lecture, Lord Skidelsky discusses 'Distribution as a Macro Economic Issue' and argues that distribution is no longer just a moral question, but a macroeconomic problem.
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Intervista a Robert Skidelsky, biografo di John Maynard Keynes dal sito EconStories. Sottotitoli a cura di http://keynesblog.com
Read More »Lord Robert Skidelsky (Media and Society, Golitsyno, 10-13 December 2014)
Lord Robert Skidelsky (United Kingdom): Valday - 2014 (Media and Society, Golitsyno, 13 December 2014)
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