Robert Skidelsky

In the past, humans used machines, but did not live in a machine age. In other words, machines did not determine their conditions of life. These conditions barely changed over thousands of years. Today, we depend on machines for the way we work, the way we think, and the way we live. The machine age has come in a rush. It raises three questions. How and why has it come about? What has been its effect on the human condition? And what influence, if any, do we have on the further ‘march...

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Review of the book "How Much Is Enough" by Robert Skidelsky and Edward Skidelsky. To get the book in a library: https://www.worldcat.org/title/how-much-is-enough-money-and-the-good-life/oclc/945402150 To learn more about the book and/or by it: https://www.google.com/books/edition/_/A79vDwAAQBAJ

Robert Skidelsky is emeritus professor of political economy at Warwick University. His numerous, award-winning books include Keynes: The Return of the Master (2010), a discussion of John Maynard Keynes and the urgent relevance of his ideas in the wake of the 2008 financial crisis, and How Much is Enough? The Love of Money and the Case for the Good Life (2012), co-written with his son Edward Skidelsky. A member of the House of Lords since 1991, Skidelsky was elected a Fellow of the British...

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/